Via Mark Steyn, we find this amusing Mitsubishi ad campaign that some Ohio radio stations are refusing to run:
In the spot, Keith Dennis of Dennis Mitsubishi talks about "launching a jihad on the automotive market."Sales representatives "will be wearing burqas all weekend long," the ad says. One of the vehicles on sale "can comfortably seat up to 12 jihadists in the back."
"Our prices are lower than the evildoers’ every day. Just ask the pope! " the ad says. "Friday is fatwa Friday, with free rubber swords for the kiddies."
Sounds like a good excuse for the perpetually outraged to have a Car-B-Q party. The radio stations are certainly entitled to decline any ad for their own reasons, but I think this type of mockery is the best response to the jihadists. We should not allow the slightest hint of being intimidated by the serial rioters.
And speaking of the perpetually outraged, Salim Mansur has an excellent column today:
But it is futile to engage with drivers of the perpetual anger machine -- the political leaders, intellectuals, religious heads and demagogues -- as they rush head-long to go over the precipice of history into oblivion. Indeed, the sooner this occurs the safer the world will become.Hence, instead of dignifying outrage by striving to find any merit in what has led to the burning of Pope effigies in the Arab-Muslim world, I am reminded of another conversation worth recalling that took place in Baghdad in 1258.
Read the whole thing, as they say, but I'm encouraged to see him simply refusing to dignify the outrage.
Hot damn. Only a couple days ago I was saying to a good friend that after the cartoon-caper and now the pope rage-day, we're gonna soon start seeing these stupid nutters being mocked! I was saying it was all getting kinda Monty Pythonesque. This is very heartening news!
Where can they go when everyone is laughing at them? You just can't make this stuff up...
Kate or some other blogger, you should pick up on this:
www.townhall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2006/09/20/the_pope_and_kissinger_warn_the_world
and offer some analysis.
It's very interesting.
Christoph said: "It's very interesting."
Thank you for the link, Christoph*. The following c/p from the article is an excellent summary of the Pope's message. The transcendant nature of God is known to humans through the use of human reason.
Prime Minister Harper used the words God bless Canada when he had finished his speech at the Support the Troops rally on Parliament Hill.
IMO, PM Harper looked beyond the temporal aspect of our humanity; he asked/advised us to transcend our daily life and look/reach up to the source of our existence. Without this transcendence, humanity is earthbound, violent, unable to accept redemption.
Contrast PM Harper's message with the message of socialism, tribalism, and all the other earthly ideologies; earthbound, atavistic, deadends.
"Any fair and careful reading of the pope's lecture must conclude that it was not an inadvertent insult to Islam. Rather, it was a firm assertion that the Judeo-Christian God acts in accordance with reason ("In the beginning was the logos" -- word and reason), and thus Christians and Jews can undertake a rational debate about the morality of violence. He quotes, now famously, Emperor Manuel II's assertion in 1391 that Islam spreads its faith through violence -- which, he says, is unreasonable and incompatible with the nature of God. He then cites an 11th century Arab Muslim theologian, Ibn Hazn, who argued that Allah is transcendent of reason.
After criticizing secular Christians for not giving reason its proper place in understanding faith and God, he concludes his lecture by again quoting the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II on his same criticism of Islam. Then, the pope finishes his lecture with the following words: "It is to this great logos, to this breadth of reason, that we invite our partners in the dialogue of cultures. To rediscover it constantly is the great task of the university."
In other words, he is inviting Islam to explain whether their God is like ours -- inherently understandable by reason (and thus, is their God opposed to violence, as ours is?) . ...-
*St. Christopher: The Christ-Bearer. Jesus can show the Way to the transcendant. Amen.
Me No Dhimmi and Wayne:
For mockery of the Muslim jihadists, go here:
MSM Ignored Pro-Israel Rally With 40,000 Marchers
Story here.
Further to this post, I bring you this.
The Associated Press, Reuters and many other news organizations reported that a few thousand people took part in a protest against the war in Iraq near the United Nations headquarters on Wednesday.
But the mainstream media ignored another, much larger rally taking place outside the U.N., with an estimated 35,000 people expressing their support for Israel and condemning Iranian President Mamoud Ahmadinejad. ...-
More:
http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/
Sometimes wonder if we should be investigating all our media. Politics is one thing, but who's side are they on in the current world fight against terrorism?
less mockery, more understanding
Liz: The media is on the side of the terrorists but they are so full of hating Bush they can't see it. But, Clinton, on Fox news this a.m. is blaming the media for being very proBush re OBL. When the democrats continue to tell the world about sites that could be attacked, what rail lines are in danger, that this or that site has no security, do they really think the terrorists can't read or hear this and plan to use this info for a future attack. I blame the media for all the deaths of US troops and Cdn soldiers. During WW11 these people would be arrested for treason. They are too young to remember the saying: LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS. Today, the saying should be HATRED FOR BUSH BRINGS PLANES FULL OF TERRORISTS.
Taliban Jack could only get 35 Hamas imposters to the anti-war rally. Not showing their faces shows what cowards they are. Was Jacko under one of those masks.
Just read the ad: I think it is time to start mocking the jhaidists. Years ago the phrase REDNECK was used against Albertans, until we took that and displayed bumber stickers, Tshirts etc with PROUD TO BE A REDNECK, and that was the end of the supposed insult to us. It is past time for the world to stop being afraid of insulting muslims. I intend to do it all during the Christmas Season, by saying MERRY CHRISTMAS, and putting up a Nativity Scene, playing religious Carols etc. I will not shop in any store with banners saying seasons greetings etc. We could all declare our own jhaid against political correctness. Instead of pc, I prefer Political Truth.
mary: I would suggest "defying" the jihadists, not mocking them. What you've suggested doing is to defy them and I applaud you for that...but I have a problem with mocking as a tactic. Maybe it will label me but I consider that to be un-Christian.
Right you are Mary. "Season's Greetings", "Happy Holidays", on Cards don't cut it either.
It's "Merry Christmas", celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.If anyone is offended, too bad. This country was built on Judeo-Christian principles and our laws reflect that fact. Those who cannot abide our laws and way of life can and should LEAVE and God speed.They can also remember we are a tolerant, free society and they are free to practice their own faith here while they wave goodbye.
A lot of the blame can be placed squarely in the lap of the Leftists whose ideology is fully at play here. That which our country was built on they wish to put down so as not to, in their socialistic minds,offend the "OTHERS".
We have a huge problem on our hands to reverse this trend. The education system at all levels is awash with socialistic ideologies.
Has anyone actually heard the ad ? have audio etc?
As a close friend of someone in the company, I heard the commercial and can honestly say that this entire thing is being blown way out of proportion. It is not disrespectful to Arabs people and is clearly a joke as the speaker in the commercial can't keep himself from giggling towards the end around lines like "the infidel dealer you can trust". Also, this website has an incorrect quote from the commercial.
""Friday is fatwa Friday, with free rubber swords for the kiddies." A fatwa is a religious edict."
The commercial does not use the word "fatwah", but "fatah" which is a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 (not Osama Bin Laden, who issued "fatwahs" against the US)
Different word, different terrorists, same stupid journalists spinning the story in a bad way
also, to the people trying to find the clip. The commercial will not be aired due to all this bad attention. So no, there are not any audio clips of it