Saint Takla shrine
Your visit is our pleasure and your smoke is damaging us.
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The message rhymes in Arabic – too bad it fails in English. This shrine is in Egypt, and this should not be the best you can do. There is a monastery in Assiut that includes postcards with giant doves that are supposedly miracles. Come on Egyptian failbloggers, send in more.
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so no swinging your incense around in here mr. priest man!
I was gonna say if somebody did a Catholic ceremony in the shrine for St. Takla, there be so much smoke it’d look like the the smoking room in some old gentlemen’s club. Would this be a capital crime in Egypt (is that what the Arabic says on the bottom… Smoke upon penalty of death)? To the Muslim Brotherhood, I reckon, everything deserves the death penalty…
I kid, Brothers, I kid.
I guess you’d be in for a stoning instead of being burned at the stake, considering the smoke and all.
Wow, repeated associations of Islam with death based on nothing at all. Witty and original
Um, I’m pretty sure the entire Middle East is plenty of evidence to associate Islam with death.
Everyone is associated with death. You are going to die. You could make an association with death with any culture. Look at our entertainment industry and how much of it is focused on death and violence. We live, we die. So stop trying to use death as a channel to express your ignorant prejudice!
Yap. It’ riddled with M16 bullets, and the occasional AK47.
I didn’t refer to Islam in general (Bishmillah al Rahman al Rahim) but the Muslim Brotherhood organization specifically. Anna above mentioned the temple being in Egypt, which is the birthplace of the Muslim Brotherhood, and I made the association between the two and ran with it.
A few things from the history of the Brotherhood:
A Brotherhood activist, Abdul Munim Abdul Rauf, tried to assassinate President Nasser on October 23, 1954. He and 5 other Brothers were later executed for this. Not too surprisingly, the Brotherhood was banned in February of that year because of a disagreement over secular or Sharia law being the law of the land.
Anwar Sadat, who became president after Nasser died in 1970, was assassinated in 1981 by 4 members of the Islamic Jihad, which is an organization that was an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Islamic Jihad and the Brotherhood both apposed the peace deal with Israel.
The Brotherhood has at times employed violence, which has included killing, and has at times denounced it. It’s exerted political power in Egypt (also in other countries), legitimitely having members getting elected to Parliament. However, the Muslim Brotherhood has given rise to a number of more militant and violent organizations, such as Hamas, Gama’a al-Islamiya, and Islamic Jihad. Those 3 organizations have a well-documented history that is associated with death.
I’ve made repeated associations of death with the Muslim Brotherhood organization, not with Muslims. And it was not “based on nothing at all.”
You can imply I’m guilty of ignorance and prejudice (both you and aaronls below), but it seems that you were exercising ignorance and prejudice against me in your assumptions- you (both) attacked me without knowing anything about me. You assumed the worst. You both may want to examine the concept of self-righteousness and recognize it when you’re guilty of it.
I didn’t, and I usually don’t act out of ignorance; I usually keep quiet if I am ignorant of something. My humor gets a little dark occasionally and I can make light of serious things, but it’s a way of coping with some of the more fun things that happen in my life… like taking crap from two strangers out of the blue. *sigh*
I’m sorry, folks. I get like this when I get pissed off.
When I get pissed off, Islam doors.
But you usually have such a Sunni disposition – it takes a fair bit to give you the Shiites.
That mosque be from all the comments that Mecca me laugh!
They’re funnier if you don’t mullah them over too much. Ayatollah before, this site is all about the LOLZ.
That’s absolutely right – if you do have a particular belief system, it’s not fair to use this site to try to Ramadan other people’s throats.
Hajj you come up with yet another Muslim pun?
You could always smoke weed and get stoned at the same time- cut out the middle-man.
A little ganja I could stand as a punishment for my transgressions. ‘cept I’d have to find a middle-man to obtain the stuff, unfortunately.
Actually, Coptic Christians use just as much (if not more) incense than Catholics so I am pretty sure that they would not mind that sort of smoke.
I presume St. Takla is the patron saint of smoking cessation?
Santa Clause’s summer home. He is trying to quit the pipe and lose weight. He is a little grumpy.
St. Takla still partakes of tobacco but is trying to get off tequila.
…So, actually that makes him the smoking saint of patron cessation.
…or should I be proper and say Patron™ cessation ?
The better the tequila, the more you can taste the aguave beetles. It’s not just the worm.
I thought the Beatles had better taste before their agave period. They worm aching really great music back then.
If you are smoking, we will put you out with a hand grenade.
Pointy sticks hurt.
That’s really terribly photoshopped.
I agree. There’s no way the Engrishfunny.com logo was actually stuck to the sign. Total fake.
Where is the Engrish? They are rather polite. It’s certainly better them” Thanks for coming. No smoking”.
Egypt is too hot for reindeer and a sleigh. How does he get around?
Is he using local workers, or did he get visas for the elves?
Bad news for you yokels you said it’s Egypt. It’s in Syria, in a town called Mallulah.
There are frescoes there, and cigarette smoke damages them. The message is supposed to be the frescoes “speaking.” So it absolutely makes sense. “Your visit is our pleasure” is the only Engrish-y thing here, but the Arabic translates to exactly that–it’s an idiom in Arabic–so it’s not nearly worthy of mockery.
But, but, someone who appeared knowledgeable said it was in Egypt. I’m confused. You mean now I have to deliver a rant about something Syrian?
Are those frescoes of the geometrical design that I do find aesthetically/spiritually pleasing? Or are the of the representational variety, depicting Jibril or scenes from the Qu’ran or from the life of Muhammad? If that’s the case, it would seem they’d want them damaged, since representational art is Idolatry.
If or since the frescoes are kindly and respectfully asking, however, I must humbly apologize to them and wish them “Salaam”. And I’ll shut up now.
This convent is in Syria, not Egypt. It’s in the sweet little town of Maalula, outside of Damascus. There is a very amusing nun there who will tell you all about St. Tekla!
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“damn it Fatimeh…i told you not to smoke during sex”
Well, when you rub two things together so hard, what do you expect?