Saudi rumor: Cunning Zionists infecting melons with HIV
posted at 11:26 am on April 13, 2007 by Allahpundit
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What do you get when you combine a medieval culture, a Wahhabist educational system, and some good old-fashioned anti-semitism?
Magical things, my friends.
“Beware of Israeli melons infected with AIDS arriving in Saudi Arabia!” is the latest rumor being spread throughout Saudi Arabia like a wildfire.
An SMS message being sent around the country this week said, “The Saudi Interior Ministry warns its citizens of a truck loaded with AIDS infected melons that Israel brought into the country via a ‘ground corridor.’”
The Interior Minister’s spokesman General Mansour al Turki responded to news of the message and made it clear to a-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper that the Ministry “did not issue any such announcement. This is just a rumor.”…
The rumor, despite being denied several times, has gained so much steam in the Arab world that it made it to the front page of one of the most important Arabi language newspapers.
Sales of yellow melons are down roughly 90% in one Jeddah market.
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You mean the Saudis allow anything Jewish in their country in hte first place?
Man their border patrol sucks almost as bad as ours does
Defector01 on April 13, 2007 at 11:27 AM
Gee, I hope the world economy can make it. Are these people that ignorant to believe this rumor?
amerpundit on April 13, 2007 at 11:30 AM
Jews. What can’t they do?
SWLiP on April 13, 2007 at 11:31 AM
Huh. The logistics of that must be interesting.
It’s like fodder for a Dan Savage column.
Slublog on April 13, 2007 at 11:32 AM
The reason there’s so much AIDS in Saudi Arabia is because there’s so much promiscuous homosexuality. But like everything else, they need to blame the jews for their problems.
PRCalDude on April 13, 2007 at 11:35 AM
Next we need pics of Jews eating melons.
Then they can spread the rumor that Jews have a cure for AIDS.
Kai on April 13, 2007 at 11:39 AM
I had no idea that melon sex was a common practice in Saudi Arabia.
RedWinged Blackbird on April 13, 2007 at 11:40 AM
I’ll take one of me eating some melon after classes and send it to ya :-D
Defector01 on April 13, 2007 at 11:41 AM
I don’t know…we’ve believed our share of rumors here in the US…
“Snopes” is full of them…Sometimes, the most ridiculous rumors are the most believable.
And melons have to have a big wedding, because they “cantelope”…OK, *boo’s self*
JetBoy on April 13, 2007 at 11:50 AM
Melon sales are down today in the ME but sales of apples pies have skyrocketed.
EnochCain on April 13, 2007 at 11:51 AM
Sounds like the Deadly Virus spreading via cell phones right now in Pakistan.
BelchSpeak on April 13, 2007 at 11:52 AM
They’re going to be needing some mighty big condoms in Saudi Arabia if they are going to be having risky behavior with a melon.
pedestrian on April 13, 2007 at 11:52 AM
Yet another example of the a$$backwards nature of much of the Islamic world.
And JetBoy, much of what you find in Snopes is regarding paranoia about our OWN culture…not generally focused on other cultures. We’re idiots about ourselves, mostly. ;)
Snopes IS fantastic tho…
tickleddragon on April 13, 2007 at 11:55 AM
Zionism at its best.
Rick on April 13, 2007 at 12:02 PM
Yup, and Jews drink the blood of Pali children.
They are the sons of “apes and pigs”. Yet somehow those apes and pigs have kicked your sorry islamo-asses in everything from war to science to technology to gardening to manufacturing to tourism and everything in between. So if they’re apes and pigs, what does that make you?
It must really suck losing to the sons of apes and pigs.
Tony737 on April 13, 2007 at 12:03 PM
ouch!!!
Lonevoice on April 13, 2007 at 12:04 PM
I blame it on those gay melons.
fogw on April 13, 2007 at 12:28 PM
They’ll just have to use the saline implants instead.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on April 13, 2007 at 12:47 PM
Alex jones was right. There -is- AIDS in corn.
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=183290
lorien1973 on April 13, 2007 at 1:01 PM
Alex Jones…Heh.
EnochCain on April 13, 2007 at 1:03 PM
Well my friends, let’s not be too smug in our cultural superiority. Seems to me there was very recently a very prominent Senate leader who claimed that AIDS was spread by tears…..
That said, I am reaching the point of “nothing can shock me” with the escapades of these hate merchants. Sad, sad, sad.
honora on April 13, 2007 at 1:06 PM
The weed of Jewry bears bitter fruit. Allah knows.
spmat on April 13, 2007 at 1:06 PM
I just got this. Duh, Fridays are not my best days. Consider yourself smacked.
honora on April 13, 2007 at 1:07 PM
You can actually find HIV in tears (in very small amounts), but saying they spread that way is ridiculous.
PRCalDude on April 13, 2007 at 1:21 PM
Let me cry on you.
Then we can be
emoinfected together.Kai on April 13, 2007 at 1:41 PM
That could have been the most brain dead comment I’ve ever read. The HIV virus has been found in tears. That’s a fact . How in the world did you find it in your brain to compare that and a melon????
Capitalist Infidel on April 13, 2007 at 1:45 PM
Obviously the areas’ melon dealers were not contributing enough to Hamas.
Maxx on April 13, 2007 at 1:49 PM
But it cannot be spread through tears, or sweat, or mosquitos, or toilet seats or any of the other stuff the media freaked out about in the 80s.
Slublog on April 13, 2007 at 1:53 PM
You need to read more. AIDS is not spread by tears. Or melons.
honora on April 13, 2007 at 1:58 PM
This could be an excellent strategy to starve these people out of existence.
Kini on April 13, 2007 at 2:02 PM
The Jews tainted Saudi melons with AIDS. As a response, the arabs have cleverly sent a shipment to Israel of botulism tainted bacon. Shrewd bunch.
stonemeister on April 13, 2007 at 2:03 PM
Or even very easily by heterosexual sex. Most of the infections are from homosexual contact or dirty needles.
PRCalDude on April 13, 2007 at 2:16 PM
Saudis repulsed by melons.
Heh.
Black Adam on April 13, 2007 at 2:20 PM
hahaha!!
Islam is so backwards.
The dates are infected with HIV. The melons cause sterility.
Melons infected with HIV. Silly Muslims.
Canadian Infidel on April 13, 2007 at 3:04 PM
I never said it could be spread by tears, you’re either lying or you didn’t read my comment. I want to know how your mind, after hearing about melons having the HIV virus in Saudi Arabia, made a leap to the HIV virus found in tears? I could understand trying to find something similar, like a story about HIV being in oranges, carrots, pears, etc…. but tears???
Capitalist Infidel on April 13, 2007 at 3:45 PM
Re-read my post. Making the point that stupidity is not limited to Arabs–they buy the notion that Zionist melons spread AIDS, Bill Frist supports the notion that tears spread AIDS.
The commonality is not produce, but stupidity.
honora on April 13, 2007 at 4:01 PM
If the Saudis have an AIDS problem in their melons, the melons will have to be kept in burkas, so the men won’t be, you know, tempted…
pedestrian on April 13, 2007 at 4:12 PM
Wow, only those tricksy, tricksy Jews could find a way to infect melons with a disease that only 1) affects humans (hence the ‘H’ in HIV), 2) survives outside the body for hours at most.
Wolfman on April 13, 2007 at 4:32 PM
No, wait a minute, it’s the GREEN melons! Not the yellow.
Tantor on April 13, 2007 at 5:10 PM
Saudi proverb:
Can it be that the Jews have now deprived these gentle people of even this simple joy? Alas.
morganfrost on April 13, 2007 at 5:10 PM
All they need do to check the melons is looks for any signs they have been “plugged”! We southerners know about watermelons !!
gary on April 13, 2007 at 5:15 PM
I thought it went like this:
PRCalDude on April 13, 2007 at 5:57 PM
Exactly how does one *#%@!^ a cantaloupe’?
- The Cat
MirCat on April 13, 2007 at 10:28 PM
Starting rumors and letting them spread by SMS text messaging seems to have potential for do-it-yourself psychological warfare. We know people can be led to think that everything in their environment contains deadly contaminants that will kill them over the course of years; consider the ease with which environmental activists have made people fear contaminants, whether rightly or wrongly.
I wonder what salutary effect such rumormongering might have on muslim birthrates. Could muslim men be made to believe that sex with their wives slowly weakens men over time, that third, fourth, and fifth children tend to accumulate “Jewish characteristics,” or other useful nonsense?
Who’s going to develop an early warning system to keep imams informed about these emerging findings of Islamic science?
Kralizec on April 14, 2007 at 3:23 PM
Interesting idea. Very interesting.
PRCalDude on April 14, 2007 at 5:21 PM
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