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Store YANKS FIREWORKS Offensive to Muslims
WXOW - AP ^ | 7.04.09 | AP

Posted on 07/07/2009 11:23:10 AM PDT by rface

A Wisconsin fireworks store has yanked a brand off its shelves

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The fireworks were called "Run Hadji Run." The packaging showed a cartoon drawing of Uncle Sam yanking the beard of a man dressed in Muslim attire, and the other showed a bomber jet flying over a group of Arab men on camels.

"Hadji" is a title given to Muslims who have completed a pilgrimage to Mecca.


(Excerpt) Read more at wxow.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: fireworks; hadji
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didn't see the above posted......also didn't see the below posted.

from the "Huffington Post":

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1 posted on 07/07/2009 11:23:10 AM PDT by rface
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To: rface

LMAO, ‘Run Hadji Run.’


2 posted on 07/07/2009 11:25:28 AM PDT by americanophile (Sarcasm: satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language.)
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To: rface

we have to pull chinese fireworks off of our shelves because we are racist??


4 posted on 07/07/2009 11:26:31 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Tamar1973

Typo above...Run Osama Run.


5 posted on 07/07/2009 11:26:52 AM PDT by Tamar1973 (Only dead fish "go with the flow"--Sarah Palin)
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To: rface

That’s pretty freakin’ cool.

:)


6 posted on 07/07/2009 11:27:28 AM PDT by SandWMan (While you may not be able to legislate morality, you can legislate morally.)
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To: Tamar1973

More like a Freudian Slip...;^)


7 posted on 07/07/2009 11:28:27 AM PDT by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: randog

Damn dvorak keyboard! LOL!


8 posted on 07/07/2009 11:29:07 AM PDT by Tamar1973 (Only dead fish "go with the flow"--Sarah Palin)
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To: americanophile

“Run Hadji Run.”

thats funny right there i don’t care who ya are....


9 posted on 07/07/2009 11:29:55 AM PDT by tatsinfla
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To: Tamar1973
Typo above......

sure!

10 posted on 07/07/2009 11:30:12 AM PDT by rface
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To: Tamar1973

“Typo above...Run Osama Run”

Still a typo:

“Run OBAMA Run”

There, fixed it.


11 posted on 07/07/2009 11:32:53 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Impeach President Soros!!!)
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To: rface
"Hadji" is a title given to Muslims who have completed a pilgrimage to Mecca.

When used by an infidel, me for example, it is very offensive to Muslims. It is the same level of insult as calling Christians "Jesus Cannibals."

12 posted on 07/07/2009 11:33:55 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (So close to Postal)
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To: rface

LOLOL!

Wonder if this was from a Chinese factory that had had some, er, run-ins with Uighurs.


13 posted on 07/07/2009 11:34:28 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Think of the D Party as what it really is: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party)
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To: rface

Now that’s funny !


14 posted on 07/07/2009 11:34:51 AM PDT by kingpins10
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To: CholeraJoe

You mean, Jonny Quest all those years was insulting his little brown friend by calling him “hadji?”

;-)


15 posted on 07/07/2009 11:35:26 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Impeach President Soros!!!)
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To: ScottinVA

“Hadji” is “Jihad” spelled sideways.


16 posted on 07/07/2009 11:36:46 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Think of the D Party as what it really is: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party)
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To: ScottinVA

In before post pulled!


17 posted on 07/07/2009 11:37:17 AM PDT by bondjamesbond (Don't blame me... I voted for PALIN!)
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To: tatsinfla
Boom Hadji boom. Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

18 posted on 07/07/2009 11:37:28 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: rface
I tried to bring up the website www.redrhinofireworks.com and only got the single line

Our apologies. Our website is currently unavailable. We are working as quickly as possible to correct the problem.

19 posted on 07/07/2009 11:39:00 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Think of the D Party as what it really is: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party)
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To: rface
Google cache of Red Rhino

Looks like a distinctly all-American outfit, not some Chinese hole in the wall.

20 posted on 07/07/2009 11:42:17 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Think of the D Party as what it really is: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party)
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