The Miracle Fish of Allah

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Liverpool is now famous for something other than the Beatles: Muslim holy fish draw faithful in British city. (Hat tip: Terp Mole.)

LONDON (AFP) - Muslim worshippers are flocking to see a pair of fish in the British city of Liverpool which appear to bear the words “Allah” and “Mohammed”, their owner said.

Ali Al-Waqedi, 23, who hailed the colored Oscar fish as a “message from God,” said he had loaned them to a friend whose house was close to the local mosque so that worshippers could visit more easily.

“I would say at least one hundred people have been there since I bought the fish last week,” Waqedi said.

Sheikh Sadek Kassem, imam of Liverpool’s Al-Rahma mosque, said: “This is a proof and a sign not just to Muslims, but for everyone.”

He quoted a passage from the Koran which suggested Allah will send signs. It reads: “Soon we will show them our signs in the regions, and in their own souls, until it becomes manifest to them that this is the truth.”

Waqedi said he went into a local pet shop to show his children the animals but he had not been planning to buy anything.

“We started to have a look at the Oscar fish because they had such an unusual colour. Then I saw that one of them had the word Allah. It was so clear, and it made me very happy,” he said.

“Then we saw that another one had the word Mohammed, and that was even better. To see the Allah fish was exciting, but to have the Allah and Mohammed fish in the same tank was unbelievable.”

I can’t believe there are no pictures of these miraculous fish online. I’ve searched all the usual spots.

UPDATE at 3/27/06 5:45:27 pm:

LGF operative zombie has discovered the image of the holy fish.

Last month, a pet shop near Bury, Greater Manchester, discovered an Oscar fish which appeared to have the word Allah on one side and Mohammed on the other.

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