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Brainstormy

(2,428 posts)
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 09:13 AM Jun 2015

God Hates Pigeon Genitals

You can't make this stuff up:

ISIS bans pigeon breeding - punishable by public flogging - because seeing birds' genitals overhead offends Islam
Islamic extremists in Syria and Iraq have banned citizens breeding pigeons, claiming the sight of uncovered pigeons flying overhead is offensive to God, also saying that raising the birds wastes time that should be spent praying.

Those who break the rules will face flogging, fines and even imprisonment
Earlier this year ISIS executed three boys they found breeding pigeons.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3107027/ISIS-bans-pigeon-breeding-punishable-public-flogging-seeing-birds-genitals-overhead-offends-Islam.html

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God Hates Pigeon Genitals (Original Post) Brainstormy Jun 2015 OP
Is there a list of animals that can be bred safely in an islamic way? Yorktown Jun 2015 #1
I love that! nt Curmudgeoness Jun 2015 #15
We can make a fortune! AlbertCat Jun 2015 #2
diapers are more practical Brainstormy Jun 2015 #3
Coming next: pigeon burqas Goblinmonger Jun 2015 #4
Unfortunately, the Daily Hate-Mail loves this shit, mr blur Jun 2015 #5
Maybe it's not the sex thing but the spying thing Brainstormy Jun 2015 #8
If the story is accurate, I don't care much about their motives. Jim Lane Jun 2015 #17
How many lashes would I get for posting this: Act_of_Reparation Jun 2015 #6
I believe in miracles... awoke_in_2003 Jun 2015 #19
But...but...but... LostOne4Ever Jun 2015 #7
One word counter to intelligent design right there Lordquinton Jun 2015 #9
Banning something because of something that does not exist.. Yorktown Jun 2015 #12
I see you are very familiar with Pigeon reproduction... Act_of_Reparation Jun 2015 #14
mmmm maybe we should Disneyfy pigeons olddots Jun 2015 #10
ISIS is Allah up in pigeon breeders' business. Arugula Latte Jun 2015 #11
The sillier they get Warpy Jun 2015 #13
Where will it end???? Curmudgeoness Jun 2015 #16
Banning pigeon breeding? That'll screw up their religious festivals. onager Jun 2015 #18
 

Yorktown

(2,884 posts)
1. Is there a list of animals that can be bred safely in an islamic way?
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 09:22 AM
Jun 2015

And must the female of the species be veiled?

 

Goblinmonger

(22,340 posts)
4. Coming next: pigeon burqas
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 09:29 AM
Jun 2015

Cause nothing making you horny like seeing pigeon genitals so let's cover them up.

How is someone supposed to take the crazy shit seriously? I mean, I know it's a problem because they actually kill people for this, but how do people in the other room say we need to support religious beliefs with a straight face when this is what comes from that?

 

mr blur

(7,753 posts)
5. Unfortunately, the Daily Hate-Mail loves this shit,
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 11:45 AM
Jun 2015

Sleazy little right-wing toilet paper that it is. Anything that mocks foreigners. Fuck, I hate that rag. Every time someone on DU cites the Mail Jesus kills another baby rabbit.

If every Freeper in the US suddenly moved to the UK, it would quadruple the Mail's circulation. Mine you they don't like Americans much either.

Fact: in the 1930s the Mail supported Hitler.

Brainstormy

(2,428 posts)
8. Maybe it's not the sex thing but the spying thing
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 12:15 PM
Jun 2015

Syria: Isis Executes 3 Pigeons on 'Spying' Charges
from International Business Times

http://www.ibtimes.co.in/syria-isis-executes-3-pigeons-spying-charges-635074

but the floggings, disappearances, etc., of people, too, seem real.

 

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)
17. If the story is accurate, I don't care much about their motives.
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 12:24 AM
Jun 2015

Of course, this particular story may be completely accurate, or a total hoax, or a mountain of innuendo built on a molehill of fact.

I'd say the Daily Mail is sort of like RT, the Kremlin's TV network. You have to bear in mind its ideological slant, but on occasion it will present valid information that you aren't getting anywhere else (when, of course, it's information that the owners think serves their purposes).

As for the baby rabbits, we have enough of them running around as it is.

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)
6. How many lashes would I get for posting this:
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 11:56 AM
Jun 2015


Shameless pigeon, flying about with his... er... her... um... their genitals hanging out where everyone can see them.

LostOne4Ever

(9,597 posts)
7. But...but...but...
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 11:59 AM
Jun 2015

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Pigeon's don't have external genitals that can be seen! They have internal ones. They have cloacas....[/font]



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca



Lordquinton

(7,886 posts)
9. One word counter to intelligent design right there
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 12:33 PM
Jun 2015

If you thought the penis was bad, and sinuses are a mess, just look into how birds work.

 

Yorktown

(2,884 posts)
12. Banning something because of something that does not exist..
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 01:19 PM
Jun 2015

.. I don't think I ever saw religion going a better full circle.

Warpy

(113,130 posts)
13. The sillier they get
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 01:28 PM
Jun 2015

the more people will realize they're batshit crazy.

They'd be better off sticking to violence and pretending it's righteous than chiding people getting turned on by all the bird genitals flying overhead.

Besides, when squab is no longer on the menu at ISIS HQ, maybe they'll wake up to the reality of raising food.

However, had they complained about pigeon shit, I'd understand fully.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
16. Where will it end????
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 02:34 PM
Jun 2015

Today, it is pigeon genitals. Tomorrow, will it be camels? That would make more sense, they have genitals, and those genitals can really be seen. And it probably gets those idiots horny.

I guess that they don't know that god created genitals.

onager

(9,356 posts)
18. Banning pigeon breeding? That'll screw up their religious festivals.
Tue Jun 9, 2015, 07:43 AM
Jun 2015

Especially the two biggies - Eid al-Fitr at the end of Ramadan, and Eid al-Adha, the "Feast of the Sacrifice" when Sunni Muslims go on pilgrimage to Mecca.

Poorer Muslims raise or buy pigeons to celebrate those festivals because they can't afford anything else. I've eaten "squab" several times at the big evening meals during Ramadan, when they stop fasting for the day and have the huge evening meal.

The kind of meat purchased for the festivals is a good indicator of socio-economic status. Pretty much like Baptists getting new clothes for Easter and showing them off at church.

The 1%-er Muslims will buy a whole cow or young camel. Or several family members will go in together to do so. Middle-class-ish people, a sheep or goat. And at the bottom of the food chain (literally in this case), those sexy pigeons.

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