How to get a PHD, and still be a moron!

I was waiting for someone to jump out and say, "You're on candid camera" as the wife of a PhD holder handed me couple of talismans that she asked me to deliver to her daughter back in the US. Very long denouncement statements along with huge amounts of protest were being formulated in my mouth and getting ready to burst out in flames in their own house when I decided to bite my tongue as hard as I can. Causing one of my eyes to twitch in a crazy way, while the other one was tearing from the amount of mental trauma I was going through.

This "religious" sudoku is expected to bring you good fortune

"This one eases the birth process", "This one helps produce more breast milk", "This one has copper and lead to battle the evil eyes", and "this one makes the baby grow larger"....etc

I look again in disbelief at their faces, looking for any hint of sanity, and all I get is serious faces and someone reassuring me that most of these are "Verses from the Quran", so they won't hurt...!

God I envy my atheist friends at this moment.

You can place the whole Quran on a women during delivery, and nothing will happen! A talisman (7ijab) is NOT going to do anything for anyone even if it had the secrets of the universe written on it!

You would expect in this day and age that educated people have outgrown from the dark ages of witchcraft and the magic-of-the-written-words for the masses who couldn't read. Of all people you would expect an educator, a PhD holder, and his wife to be the first people to combat this religious hallucination by figuring out what's science and what's mambo jumbo. But sadly, this wasn't the case.

This explains a lot!

This explains to me the source of the mass retardation I see in people. When these idiotic behaviors find their way to the most educated segment of the society, what in the world is left for normal people?

And yes, it DOES hurt the baby to have LEAD and COPPER next to their fragile body, just ask any Medical doctor and they will tell you about the effects foreign heavy metals on baby growth and development. Make sure you as a Medical doctor, and a witch doctor!

God, I envy my atheist friends right now!

(Just an fyi, the Islamic position on these matters is simple. Believing that any object is going to bring you good fortune, or protect you from evil is a form of shirk and idol worship)