PENISES DISAPPEAR WHEN FOREIGNERS SHAKE HANDS !
Panic in Khartoum: Foreigners Shake Hands, Make Penises Disappear
The Middle East Research Institute
During September 2003, mass hysteria spread through Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, which was ultimately quelled by police intervention and statements made by the health minister. The panic was caused by rumors of foreigners roaming the city and shaking men’s hands, making their penises disappear. The rumors were spread rapidly by text messages on cellular phones, and diverted the public’s attention from a breakthrough in negotiations in Kenya between Sudanese Vice President Ali Othman and SPLA leader John Garang. [1]
Several versions of the story circulated and not all involved foreigners: Initially, it was claimed that the perpetrators belonged to a Sudanese tribe; according to another version, one West African man was responsible; later, the one man was replaced in the rumor with a group of West Africans.
Al-Quds Al-Arabi correspondent Kamal Hassan Bakhit, who was the first to report on the affair outside Sudan, wrote that “the source of the horror is a foreign citizen from a West African country who is roaming through the city marketplace and draining men’s virility via a handshake” and that “people are refusing to shake hands with anyone they don’t know.” Bakhit reported that police had received numerous complaints about someone called ‘Satan’s Friend,’ and that they had launched an investigation and arrested a foreigner who had in his possession scarves, books on sorcery, and two million Sudanese pounds (about $1,500).
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It Is a Zionist Plot
In conclusion Abbas wrote: “That man, who, as it is claimed, is from West Africa, is an imperialist Zionist agent that was sent to prevent our people from procreating and multiplying”