Thursday, July 13, 2006

Allah lays an egg

Just as we were tiring of seeing the Virgin Mary and Jesus in sheet metal, plates of spaghetti, and rocks, along comes the egg layed with "Allah" inscribed on its shell.

"Our mosque confirmed that it says 'Allah' in Arabic," Bites Amantayeva, a farmer from the village of Stepnoi in eastern Kazakhstan, told state news agency Kazinform. "We'll keep this egg and we don't think it'll go bad."

Reuters said the egg was laid just after a powerful hail storm hit the village.

Kazakhstan is a large, thinly populated Central Asian state where Sunni Islam is a dominant religion.

Easter will never be the same.

Actually, though the press is making a big deal of this, the phenomena is probably as commonplace as the Jesus and Mary sitings mentioned above.

A website called Miracles of Allah Almighty has pictures of a cow inscribed with the word Allah, a piece of watermelon inscribed with the word Allah, a bean inscribed with the word Allah, a tomato inscribed with the word Allah, and even another egg inscribed with the word Allah (see photo above), a cat inscribed with the word Allah, fish inscribed with the word Allah. There is a photo of trees bent into the shape of the word Allah, branches shaped like the word Allah, even clouds proclaiming the Name. According to the site, even the Moon is inscribed with the word Allah.

The power of the human imagination is wondrous and mighty indeed.

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