Well folks, it’s all over. A true miracle has finally occurred! It seems Allah is the real God and he likes writing on babies legs:
A “miracle” baby has brought a kind of mystical hope to people in Russia’s mostly Muslim southern fringe who are increasingly desperate in the face of Islamist violence.
From hunchbacked grandmas to schoolboys, hundreds of pilgrims lined up this week in blazing sunshine to get a glimpse of 9-month-old baby Ali Yakubov, on whose body they say verses from the Koran appear and fade every few days.
Pinkish in color and several centimeters high, the Koranic verse “Be thankful or grateful to Allah” was printed on the infant’s right leg in clearly legible Arabic script this week, religious leaders said. Visiting foreign journalists later saw a single letter after the rest had vanished….
Up to 2,000 pilgrims from Russia’s 20 million Muslim population come daily to see the docile, blue-eyed baby, whose pink brick house has become a shrine.
Holy crap. Two thousand people a day come to see this little paragon of foolery? I wish these people would use their brains.
Thomas Paine figured it out long ago: “Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course, but we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time; it is therefore at least millions to one, that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie.”
Update: Here’s a picture. As other commenters mentioned, it looks like dermatographia or someone simply scratching the poor child:
I’m sure there’s a Monty Python reference just waiting to be said for this article, but I can’t think of it right now.
“He is not the Masia, he is a very naugty boy.”
Isn’t it amazing?! Permanent marker rubs off over time! But you can write stuff with it again! On baby’s legs! AWESOME!
Actually, I take that back: “Pinkish in colour and several centimetres high” – his parents are scratching scripture into his body, aren’t they? They’re violently abusing a nine-month old infant for religious purposes, aren’t they? Suddenly I don’t find this quite so amusing.
Custador, when I read your post, I remembered reading about this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5146087/Ariana-Page-Russell-The-human-Etch-A-Sketch.html
and
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/Dermatographia/DS00755
It sounds as if the child has dermatographia, but it doesn’t make the parents drawing scripture on her any less creepy!
I have a vein that shapes the letter M in my left eyeball. How come nobody pays me a visit?
The child most likly has Dermographia, and some cruel parents.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-dermographia.htm
My wife had it as a child. You would scratch her skin and it would welt up, she use to write things on her arm with her finger nail.
My dick is bigger than God.
Shouldn’t people pay to see that?
You’re selling it wrong Jacques…Say like I do…”My dick is bigger than the Loch Ness Monster”. Easier to visualize than an ambiguously defined amorphous god creature.
Muslims acting like Catholics.
Someone yesterday made the best comment about this “miracle” I’ve seen yet: “Silly Russians! Don’t they know this kind of thing is supposed to appear on something you can sell on eBay?”
It’s Russia. I doubt they’d get in trouble for selling the kid on eBay.
Ouch! Too far?
I just feel sorry for the poor kid.
Something tells me there’ll be absolutely no compelling evidence but lots and lots of second-hand testimonials about this “miracle”.
Seems they couldn’t even provide an illustrative photo for the article.
A photo would leave evidence that could be studied, and what kind of miracle would that be??? Geez…..
Go to Pharyngula, there’s a big picture of it.
And guess what? It looks like someone scratched it into his leg with a fingernail. Go figure.
That looks delicious!
It’s like a fortune cookie.
i wonder how much they are charging for people to come see this little kid. You know they didn’t just do this for kicks and giggles.
Ugh! They need to go back to inflicting stigmata on their own selves.
Oh ye men of little faith! Have you of little faith ever pondered for a second where you were before you became manifest here on earth? Have you ever wondered where your consciousness will be when you are dead?
You guys are so pitiful! You think spending this short time here on earth and enjoying your food, drinks and sex is all there is to life; how miserable your are!
You are just like the little child who never thought there is consequences in playing with fire until he got burnt before he believed what his parents told him. How pitiful! How sad!
The fact that you are ignorant of God does not negate him one bit. You will find out one day; truly, you will find out. But then it will be too late for you.
Have you ever wondered where your consciousness will be when you are dead?
The same place the flames go when the fire goes out. The same place your fist goes when you open your hand.
If you blow up one of the pics with the writing you can clearly see that it is instructions for cooking baby back ribs.
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I can see how some people might interpret it as Arabic script. One of the markings could easily be seen as the Arabic word “kul”, meaning “all”, (in calligraphy, كل), and the marking closest to the foot looks a little bit like the word for Allah. However, even if we assume that it’s actually Arabic script, the penmanship looks like what one might see in a political cartoon, not at all the beautiful calligraphy that Koranic text would demand.