Camel Beauty Pagents declared 'Evil'

[kellymaureen]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/6/story.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10474985

Saudi cleric condemns camel beauty contests as evil (+photos)
8:43AM Friday November 09, 2007



Beauty contests for camels have become increasingly popular in Saudi Arabia in recent years. Photo / Reuters

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RIYADH - A leading authority of Saudi Arabia's hardline school of Islam has condemned camel beauty contests as evil, saying those involved should seek repentance in G-d.

Camel pageants have become major events in the desert kingdom in recent years as tribes hold ever larger competitions, with bigger prizes and wider publicity.

Delicate females or strapping males which attract the right attention during a show can sell for more than a million riyals (about $347,380).

Sponsors spent 10 million riyals on prizes for one competition this year.

"Everyone must repent of these acts from which no good can come because of its evils, and they should beg forgiveness from G-d," said a fatwa, or religious ruling, issued this week by Sheikh Abdul-Rahman al-Barrak and a lesser-known sheikh.

"Millions of riyals are spent on buying camels just to feel proud and not for the reasons G-d created camels, like for food, drink, riding and work," he said, attacking the contests as a backward tribal custom from pre-Islamic Arabia.


AdvertisementCommentators have pointed to camel contests as a sign of increasing tribal pride, seen as a threat to stability in the kingdom established by the Saudi royal family in 1932.

- REUTERS

Do click on the "view photos" in the link they are a scream
Just look at this beauty...how can good muslim men be expected to control themselves with beauties like this running loose

[Mstislav]

Those poor camels. The concept of animal cruelty does not exist in islamic shiiteholes.

[Kiwi]

I reckon they like their girlfriends to dress up