Posted on 01/02/2020 6:10:48 PM PST by marshmallow
Shops in a Kurdish region of northern Iraq have been selling shoes with a Christian cross embossed on the sole, allowing wearers to “trample the cross,” according to the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA).
Drawing on a story recently published on the Polish website Szlomo, AINA reports that Kurdish authorities have allowed the “anti-Christian shoes” to be sold in north Iraq, including a shopping center in Erbil called Mega Mall where the footwear was on display in store windows prior to Christmas.
The footwear is reportedly produced by a Turkish company called FLO, located in Gaziantep, in southeastern Turkey.
The article suggests that the footwear is intentionally provocative toward Christians, since in Muslim culture, shoes are generally perceived as “despised garments” and in Islam, one of the most offensive slurs is to call someone a “shoe.”
When Muslims enter the room, they ordinarily remove their shoes, the article states, and if a shoe is accidentally turned over, the person will spit on the sole of the shoe and place it back face-up. Having a cross embossed into the sole means that in such a situation, the cross will be spat upon.
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But they leave the sign of the cross everywhere.
Not a bad idea with one tiny change.
Mohammad’s face.
Try that with a Koran, or image of Mohammad...
Good retort!!!
And, it’s at their own risk of living as they do but worse for eternity....
They’re stupid. Anyone who believes there is a star between earth and the moon....is well....just plain stupid.
Source please.
Superstitious throwbacks.
Ah, the beloved Kurds. So sweet of them to spit in our faces.
In the late 1890’s there were witness accounts of the Kurds involved in some of the worst Christian pogroms and forced conversions on record. This was before the young turks and the Armenian genocide. I’m sure there have been many others that only God keeps record of.
Moslem flags show a crescent moon with a star in the shaded portion....there is no star between the earth and the moon.
That’s okay. Lots of people wipe their butts with pages from the Koran.
Thinking the same thing.
Technically that symbol (the crescent moon and the star) is Turkic, not Islamic.
If you note, the flags of the Arabian countries don’t have this symbolism, just countries that had Turkic rulers at one point in time or associate themselves with Turkicism.
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