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A GROUP OF clerics in Syria has issued a fatwa which gives starving men, women and child permission to eat meats that would usually be forbidden.
According to Al Arabiya News, the religious rulings allow citizens to eat cats, dogs and donkeys that have already been killed in the fighting.
The edict comes following reports of starvation in the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Muadhamiya.
“How does the world sleep with full stomachs while there are hungry people, and not far from the main city [Damascus], just few meters way,” an imam said in a video message, initially broadcast by the Southern Damascus Media Office.
He asked if Muslim pilgrims were “waiting for us to eat the flesh of our martyrs and our dead after fearing our lives?”
You have forgot that you have brothers and sisters in southern Damascus who are hungry.
Speaking to AFP on the eve of Eid, a cleric in southern Damascus said a man in his area recently ate dog meat out of desperation.
“We issued a religious edict allowing people to eat dog and cat meat. Not because it is religiously permitted, but because it is a reflection of the reality we are suffering,” said Sheikh Saleh al-Khatib, who has been on hunger strike for nine days.
“People here have nothing for their children. I am on strike because I want to help save food for others.”
Aid agencies have urged Bashar Assad’s regime to give them access to the areas most affected by the ongoing civil conflict.
It is not the first fatwa to be issued since the violence broke out in March 2011 but it has been used as a cry for help during Eid al-Adha, a Muslim celebratory holiday.
“Of course there is no Eid for the children here” in Moadamiyet al-Sham, a suburb southwest of Damascus, said activist Abu Malek.
“For them, Eid will come when they see a plate of rice and bulgur.”
Additional reporting by AFP
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Thanks google. Thanks for starting a world where people walk around recording each other. I will never wear these.
Should read.
“Silly Virgin Atlantic press release, amounts to vast amounts of free advertising”
Minority Report meets Skynet
Time for infrared necklaces for everyone so you can protect your identity.
Welcome to the world of tomorrow
I’m a tech geek at heart and this technology is really cool BUT people have to be realistic and open there eyes, this is potentially one of the worst things to ever hit the self’s, privacy as we know it will be gone and our kids will never no what it is! Once its gone it will never come back, Scott Barry style
Fyi tech geeks tend to have good grammar and spelling.
The thing I’m dreading most about this technology is women walking down the street behind me checking out my sweet little ass.
It gives them the capability to perv on me when I’m not even around!
Yeah because you can’t walk around recording people on you phone this last ten years.
Good one Adebayo.
Big difference in phone recording and these glasses. A few examples, your on a beach with your toddler and some stranger starts pointing a phone at your child filming them. If your a vigilant parent your going to notice this and one way or another put a stop to it and make other people aware of a potential pervert in your midst. Beach full of people lots wearing glasses any sicko can now do this unnoticed. Burgler scoping out your house standing with phone risk of being seen. Burgler walking slowly along with glasses on no problem. Taking cash out at an ATM using card in shop etc person with glasses good chance they can zoom in on your pin. Seriously dangerous piecof technology in the wrong hands and that’s aside from everyday invasions of privacy.
Soz, only seeing this now as you didn’t hit reply. Walking around with a phone outstretched pointing in someones face since 2004 isnt something I have seen too much of, in day to day life, like transactions at a till etc but hey maybe I haven’t been paying attention.
PIN numbers are so last year love! We have fingerprint scanners here in Brazil now no need for a PIN number so don’t be worrying!
*On all ATM machines
I foresee (sorry!) terrible eye problems down the line if these become the norm.
I remember these from ‘Beyond 2000′!
Welcome to the future. Bare in mind that the airlines have been the test bed for realtime transactions and date analysis since the 1960′s.
I like Virgin Atlantic. I flew here via London from SFO. Treated like a human being. Wonderful staff. Comfortable seats (and I’m 6’4″, 210lbs). The other airlines should pay attention to VA. They know how to treat people.
The glasses? Couldn’t care less. The terminal is plastered with cameras anyway.
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