Arabs fight a war over a camel
Arabs once fought a forty year war over a female camel…Yep, that’s what it says. In an interview on MEMRI TV Sheik Muhsen Al-’Awaji talks about the Busous War where a female camel was humiliated, and a 40-year war ensued to defend its honor.
The Sheik rationalizes it all for us;
…proud that honor and nobility always characterized the Arabs, and then came Islam to reinforce these traits. I’m not saying I’m proud of a war over a female camel’s honor, or that I would call to wage a war to defend the honor of a female camel… But since this was done for the honor of a female camel, do not rebuke someone who would do anything to defend our beloved Prophet Muhammad.Got that? Good. As Tim Blair says, we can’t be having a clash of civilizations…to do that we need two civilizations. So while the young western civilization either followed woman to war or went to war because of woman…Boadacia and Helen of Troy come to mind… the Arabs fight over a camel….for 40 years. Must have been a very, very pretty camel. via LGF I tried to google Busous War but it didn’t deliver any insights. Does anyone have a good link to Arabian Military history other than those depicting another thrashing by the Israelis where one can seek more such gems?
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“The chroniclers have reported that the war of the Busus which lasted around one-hundred years began when a man from one tribe shot an arrow into the side of a camel of another tribe. The owner of the camel killed the man who had shot the arrow whose family killed the owner of the camel and so on and so forth. The poet has said: Most of the fire is made of mere sparks.”
From http://www.shirazi.org.uk/the%20peace.htm. Scroll down to the section titled “Equilibrium of Thought and Deed Results in Peace”