WEEKS go by without a pareidolia story, then three come at once.
After Marmite Jesus and bacon Jesus, we now have a tale from South Africa, where “Allah” has branded a cat. Allegedly.
Farouk Sha and Osama. Photo: S'bonelo Mgcobo, Independent Newspapers
Farouk Sha, a “professed animal lover and human rights activist” according to this report, says he cannot express the joy he feels when he sees the word “Allah” on his cat, Osama – named, as if you hadn’t already guessed – in honour of Islamic terrorist Osama bin Laden.
He said Osama’s marking is:
A gift from heaven with the sender’s name on it.
Osama (the cat, that is) was born a year ago with a marking on his ginger fur that looks like the Arabic word Allah. (Hold Osama upside down and it looks like the Big Mac sign). The mark has become more pronounced over time.
Said Sha:
I didn’t want to tell people about the sign; I wanted them to see it on their own. Everybody who has come to my house and seen Osama has seen the sign.
Other “artworks” on Osama include a moon and a star. But Sha doesn’t say whether there’s also a depiction of a Danish flag being torched, an adultress being stoned, a homosexual hanged – or a bomb – to further big up the marmalade moggie’s Muslim credentials.
Explaining why the cat had been named after the effete Osama bin Laden, Sha said some people considered the man to be a terrorist, but he was, in fact, a freedom fighter, and he thought it was appropriate to name the cat after him.
Sha has taken Osama to a mosque to verify the inscription.
We all are convinced that the sign is from God. I believe the Almighty creator has given me this gift.
And just when you thought that Sha had run out of stupid things to say, he remembered Osama’s “granny”, Twinkle, listening to the azaan (Islamic call of prayer).
My daughter came home from school one day and the radio was on. She carried Twinkle closer to the radio. The cats have been very receptive to prayer since.
Well, of course they’re attentive – Islamic prayers sounds like cats fucking, you berk!
Sha plans to take Osama on Islamic road shows. Any money raised from that effort would be used to help destitute and hurt animals, he said.
Ah well, his heart’s in the right place. It’s just his brain that’s malfunctioning.
Hat tip: Duncan W
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
March 15th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
As of now I am checking out my dogs. I’ll let you know if I find a sign – don’t hold your breath.
March 15th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
I have two cats, both of them are pretty daft but too intelligent to be muslims.
March 15th, 2010 at 7:50 pm
These nutjobs are everywhere. He says he is raising the money for the animals, but I’m pretty sure he will be taking an admin fee, plus maybe an agents fee, oh, lets not forget food and lodging costs. A cat’s owner has to eat too.
March 15th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
I think I see a Ganesha on Osama’s forehead, complete with his nose for the trunk. Stone Osama to death for apostasy, anyone?
March 15th, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Pareidophiles do make a fuss -
It’s enough to make anyone cuss -
When an image they see
On some toast or a tree;
Or some words on the back of their puss!
March 15th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
I was trying to make “stupid barmpot” out of Farouk Sha, but the letters aren’t quite there!!
March 15th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
It’s a trick of Satan.
March 15th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
But I thought it was a sin punishable by death to put Allah’s image on anything. Or does Allah not know the rules of his own religion?
March 15th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
That’s what I thought, Buffy. Perhaps the moggy will be run over soon. That’ll teach Sha.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
Buffy, apparently this is the moon-god Allah’s signature, not his actual image. Google “Allah images” and you will find on Islamic sites dozens of pictures of things ranging from fish to trees to clusters of islands which are seen to bear this “signature”. Never on on a pig though. Funny that. Must get working on Photoshop and correct this omission. I’ll post it on April 1.
March 16th, 2010 at 2:21 am
Even the Muslims will be shaking their incredulous little beardy heads at this one!
March 16th, 2010 at 9:54 am
Heather,
Check this out : http://www.messybeast.com/eat-cats.htm
Muslims may not be looking for Muhammed’s image in pig’s bristle, but just like a cheese sandwich, they can see him on cats.
NeoWolfe
March 16th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
It’s things like this to make you wonder why cats even bother having people.
The cat in this picture is clearly annoyed by the primate pointing out his magnificent fur – he knows he has fur, monkey boy.
Get back to your silly incantations, and leave poor O’Sama to get on with his quantum physics research.
…and would it kill you to put some water in his bowl!
March 16th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
My cat has Edvard Munch’s Scream face as a pattern on top of his head!
March 16th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Our cat was born marked with an image of allah.
You see it when she lifts her tail.
March 16th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
Neo,
You often speak sense and I don’t deny liking you and promoting you to the ladies at bingo, but if you are suggesting for a moment that I would eat pussy….
Well I should be sorry to think you thought such a thing.
March 17th, 2010 at 9:49 am
Heather Flight,
I never meant to imply that you had eaten pussy. It was my embarrassed way of confessing to you that I have eaten mountains of pussy and I loved every morsel. May Allah forgive me.
NeoWolfe
September 27th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
you guys really amuse me.
in the quran it says you type of people will be the most scared and you will be begging the most, but Allah will never forgive you type of people, and from the looks of this you guys got a lot of begging to do
by saman