Bangalore-based owner turns down Rs 3 lakh offer for fish which has the word Allah on its body

[Ian David]

Bangalore-based owner turns down Rs 3 lakh offer for fish which has the word Allah on its body
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1. I saw this quite a bit in Egypt.

Don't remember any fish, but several fruits/vegetables. Melons that appeared to have "Allah" written on them in Arabic, etc. A sheep with markings on its coat that appeared to spell etc.

These things usually ran with a photo in the local papers, so that everybody could marvel at them.

The Egyptian Gazette had a semi-regular female columnist who was a weird combination of Muslim fundamentalist and woo merchant. That woman would apparently believe anything, and proceed to write it up in a goopy, wide-eyed style. She was really hilarious when she got off on evolution or physics, neither of which she knew the first damn thing about. Except "Allah-did-it!"

One year during the Eid Al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice) season, her column claimed that sacrificial animals were GLAD to be killed in honor of Allah, never screamed or cried when they knew they were being ritually sacrificed, willingly bared their throats, and on and on.

Simple observation disproved that one for me. During that season, animals were being slaughtered on just about every street corner in Alexandria. Blood literally ran ankle-deep in the gutters and piles of hacked-off animal limbs were stacked around the streets like piles of firewood. To my eyes (and ears), none of those animals died "willingly."