Daisy Khan watch and I'm not kidding you: Falafel is Muslim food! I can see the Copts of Egypt saying is she out of her mind?

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Nov 25, 2010 at 15:27

And the credit must go to Abigail Esman from Forbes magazine for discovering this little gem

So this annoying woman Daisy Khan is telling us that falafel is "islamic food." and I'm not kidding you

For readers that do not know much about falafel it is either

1. The Egyptian style falafel or in its Coptic/Egyptian name ta3miyya is a combination of fava beans, parsley, cilantro, green onions, garlic, salt, pepper, CUMIN AND CORIANDER seeds made as balls and fried in oil and served with tahina sauce which is really water and vingear added to tahina and some fresh garlic, salt and water and this very old Egyptian ta3miyya pre-dates the Arab invaders in 642CE.

2. The Lebanese/ Palestinian/ Syrian/israeli style where garbanzo beans are used or a mix of garbanzo beans and fava beans are used with cinnamon at times instead of cumin and coriander seeds

So you can see that this is a type of food that needs lots of greens and it could not have been a type of food that the invading Arabs brought with them from al-Hijaz as you cannot grow much of the ingredients in the climate of Mecca and most significant if this was indeed Arab food then the hadith and the sira and tarikh would have been full of stories about falafel!

What an ignorant woman

So this ignorant woman does not realize that falafel is the most popular food in the Middle East among Jews, Muslims, Christians, atheists, kuffar from the west the old and the young

So where did falafel come from? There is no doubt that it is the Copts (the original inhabitants of Egypt) that invented ta3miyya aka falafel and to this day the best falafel/ta3miyya is made by the Copts of egypt! it is food that must have originated in Egypt

So who brought the falafel to the US? It is the Syrian and Lebanese Christians that immigrated to the US more than 100 years ago and many were located in what was then called Lillte Syria that was located in the area of the ground zero mosque

Daisy! You need to stick to samoza darling the food invented by your Hindu ancestors

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