No worries. I actually enjoyed your reply, most informative.

MEMRI has a good reputation for accuracy, and this guy’s fatwa show is a regular thing, so unfortunately he’s influencing a lot of people.

This sort of belief isn’t that uncommon. Ill-wish dolls in VooDoo, Wicca, and many other religions around the world have similar stuff in them. Some of the writers of the Bible obviously believed in the dangers of witchcraft. I suspect a survey of the US would find surprising numbers who believe in it. A Pew survey in 2014 showed that 39% of Hispanic Catholics in the US believe in the Evil Eye. In the same survey, 15% of US Hispanics said, “they have had witchcraft or black magic practiced on them or someone close to them.” Pew also said:

In our survey, about one-in-eight Hispanic Catholics in the U.S. (12%) said they have witnessed an exorcism. Even more Hispanic Protestants (37%) – including 59% of Pentecostals – said they have seen “the devil or evil spirits being driven out of a person.”

Obviously, not all these people are stupid, just brainwashed.

I know I’ve got a bit carried away in my answer – sorry about that. I should have just written another post! 🙂

I can confirm that I’ve never engineered my cucumbers or tomatoes for any social media. I have cut tomatoes to look pretty on the plate for Real People, but that was before social media existed. Nowadays? It’s just unnecessary extra work when you live alone. 🙂

BTW, I hope you no longer spend hours engineering your cucumbers and tomatoes, just to post them on your blog 😉

I think they do if you use Flickr, though I’ve never tried it.

(I was hoping the photo would embed like videos do!)