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OIC secretary general visits Peshawar, Pakistan.

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yep ... i saw in a mosque of UAE , and i was latterly:o::what::undecided: ...
they first kiss on cheeks and than touch noses ... if i laugh , i am would be beaten up so many man in Qandora's lolz

That must be awkward.
 
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Arabs do not owe anything to us. Be grateful for this man to take the time out to visit.

If he doesn't visit you moan, if he does you moan. Get over it!

moaning over Arab leaders get you promotion.... its an incentive!
Now ask any of TT panel or mod. to explain the visiting personality, and his crimes against Pakistan?
On the contrary Indians must have been peeing in their pants... for this visit which was most needed in backdrop of Obama's visit to India.
Again this thread is not the place to discuss Arab or their leaders... yet, here you have this administration, busy doing holy service by cursing Arabs, even if they come to condole the victims.

Arabs? I said Arab leadership, not just Arabs.

Call my comments whatever you wish, these are my views, and quite frankly, they're justified.

Let's inform us of your views of Arab leadership in appropriate thread... or not?
As i believe.. no Arab leader will come to defend against your allegations, and it will nothing more than one sided rhetoric, ever since Iran revolution and consequent brain wash of hordes of idiots !!!

Looks like he gave you a burn

Me posting such ignored news, give far more burns to the self appointed mominins.
You can see the obvious hypocritic behavior!

That must be awkward.
arabs do kissing , or some touch noses :o:
Welcome to planet earth... and now for your trolling, both of you should be appointed as TT or even better a Mod. where you can issue negative rating for not joining in insulting a nation.
Carry on.....
 
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Again this thread is not the place to discuss Arab or their leaders... yet, here you have this administration, busy doing holy service by cursing Arabs, even if they come to condole the victims.



Let's inform us of your views of Arab leadership in appropriate thread... or not?
As i believe.. no Arab leader will come to defend against your allegations, and it will nothing more than one sided rhetoric, ever since Iran revolution and consequent brain wash of hordes of idiots !!!
Iran? You think I support Iran? No, they're just as bad. Pakistan has been used as a proxy war setting for the Iranians and Arabs (governments) to spread their sectarian agendas.

You can call me an idiot all you want, it only serves to harden my point of view.
 
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yep ... i saw in a mosque of UAE , and i was latterly:o::what::undecided: ...
they first kiss on cheeks and than touch noses ... if i laugh , i am would be beaten up so many man in Qandora's lolz

December 28, 2012

Dear Ali: Why do Emirati men rub their noses when they see each other? Am I expected to do the same? SU, Al Ain

Dear SU: In our culture, nose-rubbing has been passed down from generation to generation. It is a unique way of greeting, showing friendship and deep respect, but at the same time it works like a traditional code among the Bedouins.

The old custom of rubbing noses is not an Arab invention but the code of indigenous peoples in many parts of the world. The Inuit and the Scandinavians also do it. It varies from rubbing to kissing, but they all require the noses to touch.

To understand the significance, look at your face in the mirror to determine which part of it you find most appealing. It’s often the nose, which explains why this feature has a special status (along with the forehead).

For example, if someone were to push your shoulder, would you feel as offended if they pushed your nose? Probably not.

This custom is linked with pride and dignity. As people who worship God, we tend to bow and prostrate by touching our forehead and nose to the ground as a sign of respect. It also translates into greeting others, especially among Emiratis and people from the region.

Ask Ali: Why rubbing noses is more than just a custom | The National

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4 May 2014

Nose kiss, anyone? How the Gulf Arab greeting has evolved

Last March, the “First Kiss” video was released on YouTube attracting more than 80 Million views so far. Not many people in this region were excited about it. For many here it symbolized the decadence and corruption of the West. Yet there were those who considered it interesting enough to inspire them into making a parody of it: “First Nose”. In it you have a set of guys ready to give each other a ‘first nose’.


In the “First Kiss” video the participants are embarrassed and nervous; it’s an awkward moment particularly because of the intrusive effect of the camera. And the same feelings were acted in the “First Nose” video.


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Emirati men touch their noses after they performed the Eid al-Fitr prayers in Dubai.

There is a difference of course between a “first kiss” and a “first nose.” A kiss is an intimate act and so to kiss an absolute stranger in the presence of a camera can be quite awkward. But a “nose” is merely – or mainly - a handshake using other means. There’s no intimacy at all there. It would be hard to imagine anyone feeling awkward because he/she had to shake hands with complete stranger; camera or not. Even though the video is a parody it led to some misunderstanding.


Those who don’t know what a “nose kiss” is may actually think it’s an intimate act. Some locals, who know what it is, considered the video an insult to an authentic Arab tradition; some went as far as to consider the video a promotion of homosexuality. But in actual fact, the nose greeting is not only an Arab tradition.


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Kate Middleton’s nose kiss in New Zealand last month.


Last month, we saw Britain’s Kate Middleton giving a nose kiss during part of her tour in New Zealand’s capital. The Duchess of Cambridge had given what is known there as the “Maori hongi,” – but it’s more of a nose rub than a kiss.


Recently however, the nose kiss has been brought to light for a more serious reason. As the number of MERS (a SARS-like viral disease spreading in the Middle East) victims increase in Saudi Arabia, some health practitioners started to raise concerns about the dangers of this age old tradition. Putting two noses against each other isn’t exactly the healthiest behavior when there is an airborne epidemic going around. There were those who shared this concern, but for many traditionalists this was merely another way of attacking the social identity of the Arab Peninsula.



What is nose salutation?


Greetings come in all colors: touching the shoulder, kissing the shoulder, shoulder to shoulder, handshaking, hugging kissing and then there is the nose salutation … which is the greeting style in a number of regions in the Gulf countries and Yemen. No one really knows when it started, or whether it emanated from the region or was imported from other places. What we do know however is that the nose has been charged with symbolism for at least 15 centuries.


The Quran speaks about branding the ‘nose’ of the arrogant: a metaphor of punishment. To say in Arabic “I will rub his nose in the sand” means “I will humiliate him”. Or: “He will do it with his nose in the sand” means “he will do it whether he likes it or not”. “On my nose” means “I will do it with pleasure”. An arrogant person is described as one whose “nose is high”. An angry person is one whose “nose is swollen”. And dreaming of a nose is a sign of gaining pride or becoming humiliated.

For some people this symbolism explains the reason people “nose salute”. When you “nose salute” someone you are not merely greeting him/her; you are also saying something about how you relate to each other. The nose is a symbol of pride; thus putting noses against each other is to say you are peers. If you are not peers, then he/she who is younger or of a lower status would kiss the nose of the other.

Sniffing

Using the nose to greet is also a custom with people in the world: Mongols, Polynesians, Malay, Indians, Africans, and Eskimos among others. But while in the Arab Peninsula people stub noses against each other, in other places they smell or sniff each other.

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Even Eskimos traditionally rub noses.

A hundred years ago a social scientist was writing about how in the Indian region of Assam “smell/sniff me” was employed instead of “kiss me”. Some say that the purpose is to create familiarity and confidence in the one being sniffed. As the classic poet of 5th Century India Kalidasa said: "Every man has confidence in those of the same smell."'

Others say that the purpose is to exchange breath a metaphor of sharing life. Social biologists prefer to consider this is remnant of our pre-evolutionary animal behavior. Animals use sniffing as a communication mechanism and they say this continues to be with humans; though we assign to it other meanings.

Gogol’s Nose

In the meantime, about 200 years ago the Russian novelist Nikolai Gogol wrote a short story “The Nose”. It’s about a nose which leaves its owner and takes a character of its own; even refuses to return to its body.

The nose goes on to gain a social status higher than its owner and starts looking down at him. It is eventually forced to return to its owner who walks with it ‘on’ proudly. Here the selection of the nose seems to be random. The story has nothing to do with the nose per se.

The writer was not influenced by Arabs who considered the nose a metaphor for pride, neither by other people who considered sharing breath to be sharing life. The story is merely about the absurdity of social life where even a nose can become a creature of status, even higher than its body. In the random use of the nose by Gogol we may find a clue about the origin of the use of the nose in greeting amongst some Arabs; ie: by randomness or accident.

It doesn’t really matter why the nose was chosen, and perhaps we never will know when and how. What matters is to see it as a greeting; a random means to acknowledge the presence of someone else.


http://english.alarabiya.net/en/per...e-How-the-Gulf-Arab-greeting-has-evolved.html
 
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Iran? You think I support Iran? No, they're just as bad. Pakistan has been used as a proxy war setting for the Iranians and Arabs (governments) to spread their sectarian agendas.

You can call me an idiot all you want, it only serves to harden my point of view.

As i said.. discuss your views in appropriate thread and stop trolling here... or not?

However, i will keep you alight, by posting more threads against the wishes of fanatic hordes of Arab haters.
Most of them would be the similarly ignored news.. which is an evidence in itself. and which also lay to rest, all of your towering secular / atheistic / neutral etc. claims.
 
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Welcome to planet earth... and now for your trolling, both of you should be appointed as TT or even better a Mod. where you can issue negative rating for not joining in insulting a nation.
Carry on.....

No one insulted any nation slave boy.
 
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No one insulted any nation slave boy.

Coming back to your roots....?
discussing with Qum slaves on this forum is like Pakistan playing cricket in India with Indian umpires and ICC acting as Indian whore.
When start losing despite all the obvious support... resort to trolling and if that doesn't work get clearance from administration to bark... but i will continue to subdue the hordes of barking dogs with support of Allah.
Watch out for more news, you try so hard to hide...
 
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