# New Chick Tract- with Muhammad! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 10, 2006, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-with-muhammad/363805 "2006-07-10T01:35:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-with-muhammad/363805/61 "2006-07-12T01:36:01Z")
[QUOTE=Baker] And the local Christian couple was happy to pass out candy, along with the tracts that, well, you’ll have to read to find out what happens, won’t you? [/QUOTE] Last Halloween, a woman about thirty years old and her elderly mother came up to my candy bowl. (Neither in costume.) I reached in to pluck out a couple of the mini-candybars I was doling out, but my assistance was unnecessary. The women grabbed big handfuls of the candy. So surprised at this bold rudeness was I that I numbly took the pamphlet the younger of the two handed me before walking away with nary a “thank you.” It was a poorly-Xeroxed rant about the evils of Halloween and how everyone who participated was going to hell. I wanted to holler after them that they didn’t seem to have a problem gobbling the devil’s candy. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-with-muhammad/363805/62 "2006-07-12T03:28:40Z")
[QUOTE=Ponder Stibbons] So after 400 years Yahweh finally got off his fat ass and actually did something. [/QUOTE] Wow, even in the United States it only took us 240 years. The USA – 40 percent faster than God! ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-with-muhammad/363805/63 "2006-07-12T20:28:18Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] His cited evidence is pretty pathetic though; consisting of ‘some archaeologists dug up a couple of idols with crescent moons on them, thus proving…[whatever inane point he is pushing]’ [/QUOTE] Oh yes, and he cites Ramadan’s beginning with a crescent moon as evidence that Allah is a moon god. He seems to be unaware that: 1. All months in the Islamic calendar start with a crescent moon 2. So do all months in the Jewish calendar 3. If you’re going to have months based on the cycle of the moon, which most cultures do or did, it’s a rather obvious way to do it. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-with-muhammad/363805/64 "2006-07-12T21:00:47Z")
Of course, Chick is loonytoons, but why on earth would anyone but Muslims be shocked that he’s portrayed Muhammed? Last time I looked there’s quite a few of us non-Muslims still around. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-with-muhammad/363805/65 "2006-07-13T13:23:43Z")
Fighting ignorance: Khadijah’s _cousin_, Waraqah ibn Nawfal, was the Christian there. Not Khadijah herself. As the story goes, Waraqah confirmed that Muhammad was indeed the true prophet whose coming was foretold in the Bible. How inconvenient for Chick. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-with-muhammad/363805/66 "2006-07-13T13:54:25Z")
When did Jack Chick ever let a little thing like facts get in the way of his message? ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-with-muhammad/363805/67 "2006-07-13T20:09:06Z")
> [@](#): > > So after 400 years Yahweh finally got off his fat ass and actually did something. Yawn. I think I’ll go back to worshipping Bast. Meow! At least he ended the mistreatment of Jews once and for all. I mean, it’s been nothing but smooth sailing since then. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-chick-tract-with-muhammad/363805.md?page=3)