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Posted on 05/17/2008 9:30:39 AM PDT by Defiant
What’s it like, being Muslim in San Diego?
The question arose for me earlier this year when I decided to hit Ocean Beach on maybe the worst night of the winter. It was Wednesday, the end of market day. Rainstorms exploding in off the Pacific, marquees flapping, most market folks packing up, re-boxing their fruit. But not the guys in the black tent near where Bacon crosses Newport. From inside the gust-wrenched canvas, half a dozen men shouted to scurrying passersby to come on in for the ultimate hand-warmer. Guled and Mohammed and Abdi and Hamza and a bunch of other young Somali men were selling the thing I’d weathered the storm to find: samosas, the Middle East and India’s great snack gift to the world. Aah, yes. Down in three gulps. A beef, a vegetarian, and a Californian adaptation (cream cheese and pineapple), all enclosed in hot, golden, flaky pastry.
We got to talking. These laughing guys were all students. All Muslim. All living a double life. Studying by night, selling samosas by day at the various farmers’ markets around town, including here and at UCSD. I’d always known the Somalis were an outgoing group. Somalia embraces the longest seaboard in Africa. They’re coastal people who have survived strangers with different cultures landing on their shores for millennia.
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Get ready for warfare, people. They have no rules, no boundaries. Expect the worst and we'll be prepared for victory.
Gawd, what a steaming pile of garbage. Complete puff peace on islam. Unreal.
He, Mr. Manson, maybe ask why there isn’t a single muslim country that holds to sharia law that is at least barely functional? And why EVERY single armed conflict in the world today has muslims on one side and seculars/Christians/jews/other muslims on the other?
Unfreakingbelievable.
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All very cute and multi culti, until they gain critical mass, and then it’s our hands that will get cut off, or our heads.
The writer must be related to Charlie, and I suppose that accounts for his affinity regarding his subjects..
Unbelievable - these animals eat with their hands .... disgusting!
>> “This is the first rule,” Duali says, leaning into his meal. “Eat with your hands. The feel, the touch is almost as important as the taste. Eating with knives and forks divorces you from the feel of the food. But only bring it to your mouth with your right hand. Your left is reserved for unclean things, even though we wash our hands before every meal, of course.”<<
Dhimmi indoctrination BS!
When the Green Flag flies over California — no more “Bacon St.!”
Left hand is reserved for unclean things?
Well that’s perfect, because I’m left handed.
*evil grin*
I would be very surprised indeed if there were 100k Muslims in the San Diego area. That’s 5% of the population, or on a national basis 15M.
I don’t care if it was quoted in the local paper as an FBI figure, I strongly suspect somebody misplaced a decimal point.
Eat with your hands?
Of course ! And, you’re so sophisticated, wow, washing your stink finger before every meal.
Another islamic tradition that has helped the world culture expand into the vast technological marvel it has become.
What’s next?
Old guys buggering young guys being acceptable because the young guys don’t have facial hair?
Oh, wait , you’ve already got that too. No wonder left wing gays aren’t morbidly afraid of you.
Just love that crazy islamic allah crapbar thing. Peanut Butter Und Ham
The food there talking about is something anyone would eat with their hands. Do you eat french fries or a sandwich with a knife and fork? There is plenty else to criticize of all things.
I think your right. I live in San Diego and that number is way too high. Ten thousand might be right though.
The Muslims wish to live in the 7th century. Fine. But they need to do it in their own part of the world, and leave our civilization alone. It's not about fair, it's about mutual survival.
Worse than simply eating with their hands - they may at times lift food to their mouths with the LEFT hand, the one they touch to the despicable nether end of the digestive tract.
The proper manner is to keep the left hand limply beneath the table, while raising dribbling handfuls to the mouth with the right hand, meanwhile scattering crumbs and spatters on clothes and the facial hair. Knives are for threatening your neighbor with mutilation, spoons are for taking out your neighbor’s eye, and forks are for driving into the back of your neighbor’s hand as he tries to sneak one of the remaining morsals off your plate.
Yep. Puff Piece><p.They treat their women with IMMENSE respect, which accounts for the honor killings, no doubt.
What do you eat with? YOur feet?
Genesis 16:
7 The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. 8 And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?" "I'm running away from my mistress Sarai," she answered.
9 Then the angel of the LORD told her, "Go back to your mistress and submit to her."
10 The angel added, "I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count."
11 The angel of the LORD also said to her: "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of your misery.
12 He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."
Palmer Method Certificate?
That was meant as a retorical question, but you gave one very good answer!
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Very funny.
Do you eat:
tacos
burritos
hoagies
hamburgers
onion rings
cheeseburgers
potato chips
corn chips
gyros
pizza
grilled cheese
ruebens
tuna salad sandwiches
If so, do you use those shiny metal utinsils in pictured in your post? Or do you just use your hands?
That is hardly a Muslim thing. Cultures throughout history have seen left-handedness as distinctly evil.
The word “sinister” means left-handed.
See: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sinister
Very sweet, but it’s at best wallpapering over a religion that draws much of it’s identity from rules.
Superobvious even in this puff piece on how important it is to adhere to rules that separate you out.
The most telling quote of the entire article.
LOL!
Hell yeah I eat with my fingers & drink the soup from a bowl. & when we’re in love, a couple will feed each other, putting the food in each other’s mouths. *Mizrahi pride* :D
I’m not sinister
Wow, I would have been persecuted had I lived a few hundred years ago.
This writer is just practicing to be a good dhimmi .... don’t be so harsh...
I’m sure you aren’t bad at all :)
But you possibly would have been treated as such just a few hundred years ago.
I have left-handed family members whom I love and adore. Odd to think that they would be seen as “bad” in another time.
I’m sorry - eat with your right hand, wipe with your left. Some civilization.
There are several Muslim Mosques in San Diego County which has a pop. of over 3 million.
There are also over 30,000 Iraqis here.
The terrorists that flew into the Pentagon on 9/11 were living in San Diego over a year.
Hahaha, thanks for elaborating on the eating customs of the sand-pounders.
Friends of mine with lots of Africa experience tell me that continent-wide, Somalis are despised for being lying, cheating, stealing, entitled, groups. And that is saying a lot for Africa.
Friends of mine with lots of Africa experience tell me that continent-wide, Somalis are despised for being lying, cheating, stealing, entitled, groups. And that is saying a lot for Africa.
I think the concern with the left hand being unclean in Islam involves the fact that they have not had the concept of toilet paper until recently, if at all. Extra yuck factor attached to the left hand.
From the article........”He has ordered me up a combo plate of baked goat meat, roasted chicken breast, salad with ranch dressing, a pile of spaghetti, and another of basmati rice”
I don’t eat salad with dressing, spaghetti, or rice with my hands. I don’t know anyone who does.
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