Koran verses “appear” on baby in Russia
From one of my favorite bloggers Bad Astronomy and Discover's Phil Plait posted 11/03/09
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy
In Russia, thousands of Muslims are flocking to see a baby who has verses from the Koran mysteriously appearing on his body:
I’d like to be very clear here: this is not pareidolia, our ability to see patterns in random objects. The verses are clearly
More..there, and not just random. As one pilgrim said, "It’s proof that Allah exists, that he is all-mighty…"
koranbaby However — and perhaps this is just me here — it seems far more likely that instead of an actual miracle, someone is maybe, y’know, writing the verses on the baby. The mother says the baby is cranky when the words appear, which (if she’s being truthful) you might expect if someone is scraping or otherwise irritating the baby’s skin to make the words appear. I’ll note that the words fade with time, too, just as expected if this is a fraud.
If this whole thing is a fake (and the JREF has a million dollars on the line to say something about that) then I don’t know what’s worse: the parents or whoever is behind this doing this to the baby, or the crowd who simply believes it.
Oh, wait! I know what’s worse: the reporter who did this story and the editor who approved it not injecting one single shred of skepticism into the report. There was no journalism here, no investigation. This was simple stenography, the credulous retelling of what is almost 100% guaranteed to be a hoax at best and a scam at worst. Not to mention child abuse.
People sometimes ask me what it’s like to be a skeptic all the time. Maybe I should simply answer, “nauseated.” Less..
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You betcha , that shit's popping up everywhere ! Or I could say AYUH ..See that russian stuff popping up everywhere.as a person from Maine would say ..
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "monkeyboy61" (R)
ONE in the same ...communists . Or worse......... mein k...comes to mind ...
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "monkeyboy61" (R)
It's a miracle!! No, actually it's sick parents exploiting their child. I feel very sorry for this child... will not have a normal life.
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "snoopAhLoop" (R)
Kinda like a hemp tatto that fades after a while.
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "safetychuck2" (R)
looks like something Dick Heene would do
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "rlnbns" (R)
ring worms
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "Whiskey_Tango_Foxtrot" (R)
Are these retards serious?
Really????
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "lonewolf6972" (R)
That is the Super Allah Baby
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "wantuzad" (R)
Damn not one word about a child abuse investigation.
Seems the weak reporters are a little scared of muslims.
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "petryleak" (R)
looked written with majic marker to me
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "slick1g3" (R)
Some idiots will believe anything...
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "grimm515" (R)
Pretty sure if it was child abuse the doctor would have figured it out.
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "whosethebosh" (R)
F
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Did you see that fake pics? Poor todler. Poor people! Swindle victims! If that was those "signs" (on TV) - todler need to se a dermatologist. What year in islam today? 1237? Or something like that? Just like Catholics 700 years ago. Stupid......
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "Kofir" (R)
Heck, thats nothing.
We have a Muslim in the Glendale suburb of Phoenix, Arizona, whose daughter, Noor Faleh Almaleki, has the words "Cherokee" "Jeep" "Grand" and a peculiar Pentastar symbol that appeared on her body just last week.
This is no more a case of abuse than the one in Arizona - Allah has willed it so.
Allahu Akbar
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "cougar58" (R)
Those aren't Slavic Russians... they're Middle Eastern Russians...
Even that, I don't consider them to even be Russian.
Posted Nov-3-2009 by "Ecstasy" (R)