Posted on 02/12/2006 2:21:46 AM PST by mal
From Europe's biggest-selling newspaper, the Sun: ''Furious Muslims have blasted adult shop [i.e., sex shop] Ann Summers for selling a blowup male doll called Mustafa Shag."
Not literally "blasted" in the Danish Embassy sense, or at least not yet. Quite how Britain's Muslim Association found out about Mustafa Shag in order to be offended by him is not clear. It may be that there was some confusion: given that "blowup males" are one of Islam's leading exports, perhaps some believers went along expecting to find Ahmed and Walid modeling the new line of Semtex belts. Instead, they were confronted by just another filthy infidel sex gag. The Muslim Association's complaint, needless to say, is that the sex toy "insults the Prophet Muhammad -- who also has the title al-Mustapha.''
In a world in which Danish cartoons insult the prophet and Disney Piglet mugs insult the prophet and Burger King chocolate ice-cream swirl designs insult the prophet, maybe it would just be easier to make a list of things that don't insult him. Nonetheless, the Muslim Association wrote to the Ann Summers sex-shop chain, "We are asking you to have our Most Revered Prophet's name 'Mustafa' and the afflicted word 'shag' removed."
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"That quote is from John O'Sullivan, not the pederast Andrew Sullivan...."
On the one hand, I'm relieved of the necessity for agreeing with Andrew Sullivan, but on the other, I look like an idiot.
Too much to sort out. I think I'll just pretend it didn't happen.
Doesn't look too useful to me. Maybe he needs more air.
To be used often when necessary:
If I were a Muslim, I'd be "hurt" and "humiliated" that the revered prophet's name is given not to latex blowup males but to so many real blowup males: The leader of the 9/11 plotters? Mohammed Atta. The British Muslim who self-detonated in a Tel Aviv bar? Asif Mohammed Hanif. The gunman who shot up the El Al counter at LAX? Heshamed Mohamed Hedayet. The former U.S. Army sergeant who masterminded the slaughter at the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania? Ali Mohamed. The murderer of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh? Mohammed Bouyeri. The notorious Sydney gang rapist? Mohammed Skaf. The Washington sniper? John Allen Muhammed. If I were a Muslim, I would be deeply offended that the prophet's name is the preferred appellation of so many killers and suicide bombers on every corner of the earth.
:-) Thank you!
Thanks for the ping!
The Burger King croissanwich is the biggest food insult to Islam. Pork product with either bacon or sausage and a croissant which was created during the seige of Vienna as a mocking insult to the crescent symbol of Islam.
Thanks for the ping.
Shorten this and use it as a tag -- it's an importing insight...
Somebody must have sent out "talking points". Limbaugh has a new "PSA" directed at Dems, asking them to move to the center,
since EIB is having problems satirizing that which has become satire.
The problem is that one puts one's life at risk for comedy in the TROP-afficted parts of the world.
Of course, they could have learned it from the Clintons' response to the barbs of certain entertainers.
They already are, hence the Red Cross becoming the Red Crescent in the Middle East.
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