Posted on Nov 21, 2015
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This has to be one of the freakiest articles I've ever read. It sounds like BS, but I don't put anything past the Middle Easterners. If this is true, I'm laughing my butt off. If those refugees are allowed to enter our country, I hope they don't put the cucumber farmers out of business.
And now for the rest of the weirdest story:

ISIS would have once had a big problem with this.

WASHINGTON -- The murderous militant group that calls itself the Islamic State purports to be the ultimate radical Islamist force, out to permanently reshape the world's civilizations. But the actual minutiae of how ISIS arose, and what it devotes itself to on a day-to-day basis, is often less impressive. A case in point: In 2008, back when it was called al Qaeda in Iraq, the group placed a ban on women purchasing cucumbers.

Reuters shared that detail with the world in an August 2008 report on Iraqis turning against al Qaeda in Iraq because of the way it ruled over them.

"They regarded the cucumber as male and tomato as female," Sheikh Hameed al-Hayyes, a Sunni tribal leader, told the news agency. "Women were not allowed to buy cucumbers, only men."

Reuters and other analysts have suggested the cucumber rule was rooted in the extremists' view that the nourishing vegetable is too sexually suggestive for women to safely handle. They even killed female goats because their private parts were not covered and their tales were pointed upward, which they said was haram.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/isis-islamic-state-cucumbers_564f8531e4b0879a5b0b0aab
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OK. I get the cucumber thing, vapid as it is.
But how the hell is a tomato female?
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1SG (Join to see), I don't know. I guess it's the way you look at it. LOL
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CSM Charles Hayden
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1SG (Join to see) Haven't you noticed the difference in the squeeze of fresh tomatoes and the other ones?
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PV2 Scott Goodpasture
PV2 Scott Goodpasture
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I heard the Iranian moolah outlawed tomatoes because if you cut them in half the inside looks like a celtic cross
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Amazing. Obama just wanted to transform America; these community organizers want to transform the world.
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SGT Infantryman (Airborne)
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And we're worried about those freaks? They have very dirty minds. They like sheep and goats, but not cucumbers? LOL
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SGT (Join to see) This is really bad news because it means they'll stop making Fattoush.
:-/ LOL I like cucumber salad. Don't you?
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CPT (Join to see), Whatever you tell me to like. (-:
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Capt Jeff S.
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Sounds like IS is really insecure about being replaced by a cucumber... ; )
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