Superstitious Pakistani president is superstitious

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Pakistan President 'slaughters one black goat every day':
PAKISTANI President Asif Ali Zardari has a black goat slaughtered at his house almost every day to ward off "evil eyes" and protect him from "black magic".

A spokesman for the President told the Dawn newspaper the goats were slaughtered as an act of Sadaqah - meaning "voluntary charity" in Islam whereby one gives out money or the meat of a slaughtered animal to the poor to win Allah's blessing and stave off misfortune.

"It has been an old practice of Mr Zardari to offer Sadaqah. He has been doing this for a long time," the spokesman, Farhatullah Babar, told the paper.
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1 comentarii:

Anonymous said...

I really don't see why this is supposed to be funny.

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