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September 30, 2006

UK: Muslims Once Again Conned With Toxic Zam Zam Water

Last year, on October 18 during Ramadan, we reported that bottles claiming to be Zam Zam water were on sale in Barnsley, South Yorkshire.

Real Zam Zam water comes only from one source, a spring near Mecca. This water is said to have special properties, and was drunk by Mohammed, the so-called prophet of Islam. The angel Gabriel (Jibril) is said to have opened up Mohammed's chest, and poured Zam Zam water into the cavity.

Narrated Ibn Abbas:
I gave Zam-zam water to Allah's Apostle and he drank it while standing. 'Asia (a sub-narrator) said that 'Ikrima took the oath that on that day the Prophet had not been standing but riding a camel.
Volume 2, Book 26, Number 701: Hadith of Sahih Bukhari.

Zam Zam water is strictly protected by Saudi authorities, and it is forbidden to allow the product to be marketed. Pilgrims on Haj and Umrah regularly drink the water as it is said to possess spiritual and health-giving properties. Pilgrims are allowed to take very small amounts of this water back home with them, but never in any quantities to be commercially exploited.

When the half-litre and quarter-litre plastic bottles of fake Zam Zam water first appeared last year, trading standards officers analyzed contents of some examples. These were found to contain levels of nitrates beyond the acceptable legal limits for natural mineral water, spring water and bottled drinking water. In one example they studied, analysts found arsenic in the water, at amounts three times higher than permitted levels.

Despite the warnings, soon after the emergence of the tainted holy water, bottles of the stuff made their appearance in London, in the borough of Westminster. The Westminster Council issued warnings after it appeared on sale.

Now, Muslim fraudsters are up to the same tricks, according to Yorkshire Today and 24dash.com. The bottles of fake Zam Zam water are once again on sale. And once again, arsenic is in the water, as was confirmed earlier this month by analysts hired by Leicester City Council.

The Food Standards Agency has issued warnings to local councils, urging them to prevent sale of the bottled water.

Why should Muslims who sell this water want to poison their co-religionists? There are confidence tricksters in every community, but to taint water with a toxin seems initially odd. We suggested last year that the reasons for the presence of arsenic may have been done to give the water a "sweet" taste. Chemically pure "white" arsenic is said to be tasteless, but Richard Wilson, a Harvard physicist described water from tube wells tainted with arsenic as "the water was nice and sweet - well, it was because that's the arsenic taste."

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at September 30, 2006 12:47 AM

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