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[http://www.pmw.org.il/Bulletins_May2009.htm#b130509]
I don't now whether this reflects on Muslims or Egyptians, but an Egyptian Islamic scholar claims that pigs descended from the Jews that Allah turned into pigs. Which, in his opinion, is why we need to kill all the pigs. How can you kill all the Jews if you don't kill all the pigs?

WHAT?! Allah turned Jews into pigs? Right- that's scholarly.

I'm not one to make fun of people, or their beliefs, but I laughed my way through the article I read on it. I got it from an e-mail sent to me by Palestinian Media Watch, an organization that watches Palestinian and Arab media for anti-Israeli and anti-American propaganda.

The link to the article is here. Currently the link is broken because the page has yet to be created, but it should be up sometime today- it's today's bulletin.

Here's an excerpt from the article:

The following is the transcript from Al-Moheet Arab News Network: "CAIRO -- Sheikh Ahmed Ali Othman, supervisor of the Da'awa [Islamic Indoctrination] of the Egyptian Waqf [Islamic Holy places], has issued a Religious Ruling (Fatwa) that pigs in our time have their origins in Jews who angered Allah, such that He turned them into monkeys, pigs, and Satan-worshippers, and it is obligatory to kill and slaughter them [the pigs].

Othman based his ruling on the respected Quranic verse, 'Say [to the People of the Book - Jews and Christians], Come and I shall make known to you who receives the worst retribution of all from Allah: those whom Allah has cursed and upon whom He has poured His wrath, whom He has made into monkeys and pigs, and who have served abominations. Their place is worst of all, and their deviation is the greatest of all...' (Quran, sura 5, verse 60)