BLAZEr Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 [img]http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/pictures/2004/07/31/mn_iraq.jpg[/img] [quote][b]Iraqi Cleric Dresses Like the Virgin Mary[/b] "I love America," Rashid said, with passion. "Americans are so beautiful." Resplendent in a cream-colored gown and a white gauze turban around his boyish face, the 40-year-old Rashid looks more like a Catholic nun than a Muslim cleric. The similarity is deliberate -- he readily admits that he models himself after Mary, the mother of Jesus. Although Islamic doctrine considers Mary the virgin mother of a prophet - - a status almost as revered in Islam as it is in Christianity -- it is unheard of for a Muslim cleric to adopt Christian-style garb, much less a woman's. Rashid says Mary appeared to him in three visions telling him to follow her. He adopted the style when he was a seminary student in Baghdad in the early 1990s, but it has become more pronounced since his mosque came under U.S. protection after the April 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Rashid's close-cropped beard is dyed blond, in keeping with his all-white image -- a sign of purity, he says -- and he wears patterned contact lenses.[/quote] [url="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/31/MNGDM80L0P1.DTL"]Read More Here[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete-ster Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-kayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy That is just.....odd... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scofizzle Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 That is just special..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete-ster Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 Sco- are you impersonating the church lady? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scofizzle Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 no but thats funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zwergel88 Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 what the heck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachael Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 woah. that is weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcePrincessKRS Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 freaky.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zwergel88 Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 I read the rest of the article, and it says the guy also loves the movie "Gone with the Wind" and loves Whitney Huston. Hmm...weird! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FutureSoror Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 ok that picture is well... kind of hard to look at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thy Geekdom Come Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 Anyone else actually find this somewhat offensive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Adam Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 ick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLAZEr Posted August 28, 2004 Author Share Posted August 28, 2004 its too wierd to be offensive . . . in my opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 completely offensive... btw, I love GWTW... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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