Rewriting the Ad Rules for Muslim-Americans

new york times ^ | 4/28/7

[NativeNewYorker]

For years, few advertisers in the United States have dared to reach out to Muslims.

Either they did not see much potential for sales or they feared a political backlash. And there were practical reasons: American Muslims come from so many ethnic backgrounds that their only common ground is their religion, a subject most marketers avoid.

[Dick Bachert]

Only if the marketing involves air travel BACK to wherever they came from BEFORE they begin breeding and blowing themselves and us up.

Sorry. If that makes me a NON-PC ethnocentric pig, tough.

[WorkingClassFilth]

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[elcid1970]

Heh, heh!

Us non-PC ethocentric pigs gotta stick together. I carry a can of Spam in my pocket as instant muzzie-deflector.

Anyway, WTF can you specifically mass-market to muzzies?

Tupperware for your Koran?

[Miztiki]

From page 2...

Companies that advertise on QTV should not worry about backlash, said Mahmood Ahmad, president of Digital Broadcasting Network Inc., which produces QTV, because “Fox News viewers are not watching QTV anyway.” He added, “QTV is the safest place to be because they won’t know.”

[Flintlock]

I use Spam to coat my bullets.

[Bulldawg Fan]

“gelatin and pig fat, which is often used in cosmetics”

What could be more erotic than a Muslim woman with pig fat smeared over her face? In fact, smear pig fat over her whole body for that slippery, well lubed feel.....

[2nd amendment mama]

From page 2: "Alia Fouz, a Palestinian-American who lives near the Ikea in Canton, said she never felt that ads were addressing her as a Muslim when she was growing up in Virginia."

There's the problem....they don't think of themselves as Americans. Hell, when I was growing up I didn't look at an ad and think "I wonder what religion that person is....are they speaking to me". She grew up in Virginia and never assimilated into being an American...she's a Palestinian-Muslim-American and I somehow doubt the "American" part!

[rickmichaels]

From page 2: "Alia Fouz, a Palestinian-American who lives near the Ikea in Canton, said she never felt that ads were addressing her as a Muslim when she was growing up in Virginia."

Whenever I see ads for super-flow tampons, I get the feeling that somehow those ads are not addressing me. I guess I should feel offended.

[2nd amendment mama]

ROTFLMAO...yeah...kinda like when I see ads for jock itch. Maybe I’ll sue....LOL

[DManA]

A Spam Cross - complete protection.

[JoeSixPack1]

Old Teddy said it best:

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.... A hyphenated American is not an American at all... Americanism is a matter of the spirit, and of the soul...The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans...each preserving its separate nationality.... The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans.... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American.”Theodore Roosevelt

[norton]

“It puts an increased burden on a marketer post-9/11 to say, ‘Look, we understand.”

There is so much in the original that made me gag but this line is not only the most idiotic but defines the naivete that permeates our current society.

Lets just all get along...
Can I buy you a hilal Coke?
Want your feet washed?
Those towers were ugly anyway...
I never really laughed at Porky Pig...honest.
'You people' need special status (along with the other minorities who can't fend for themselves)...

Lets just do business and forget all that other stuff.

Guess its not just for liberals anymore.

[four more in O 4]

Aren’t all those GEICO commercials about the muzzies?

Isn’t the reference to cavemen a subtle reference to muslims?

They sure as hell look like them.

I could be wrong, I guess.

[Milhous]

Somebody ought to tell Madison Avenue that brand advertising died.

Maybe you'd better lean forward. Presently you will be given five reasons to consider something barely imaginable: a post-apocalyptic media world substantially devoid of brand advertising as we have long known it.

It's a world in which Canadian trees are left standing and broadcast towers aren't. It's a world in which consumer engagement occurs without consumer interruption, in which listening trumps dictating, in which the internet is a dollar store for movies and series, in which ad agencies are marginalized and Cannes is deserted in the third week of June. It is a world, to be specific, in which marketing -- and even branding -- are conducted without much reliance on the 30-second spot or glossy spread.

Because nobody is much interested in seeing them, and because soon they will be largely unnecessary.

[LibertarianLiz]

There's the problem....they don't think of themselves as Americans.

This is the problem that causes their lack of assimilation. Whether here, or in Europe.

They will always think of themselves as Mulsims first. Whereas, I am an American, who just happens to be Catholic; they are always Muslims, who just happen to be living in America, or Britain or France or wherever. Add in the liberal/progressive educational system (K-all college levels) where being an American is nothing special to very bad, and multi-culturalism is everything; and, you end up with a problem population within our borders.

As their population within our country grows, so does the problem.