Jihad on Burger King

[MarkG]

any pictures of the OFFENDING ICE-CREAM (sounds like a b-movie title)?

[our_man]

Who would have thought in the early years of 21st century Britain something as insignificant as an ice cream cone would prove to be one of the first steps in the eroding of Western society and the imposition of Islamic values?

I'm actually being deadly serious folks. If these 'mujahideen' can go after something as insignificant as an ice-cream cone swirl as offensive to their beliefs, where will it stop?

The Muslim Council of Britain continues to sink lower and lower in my esteem. Why didn't they just do the sensible thing and tell the man it was just a dessert, and that he was a nutter.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
Wouldn't it be best if he just crossed the Channel and went to Beurger King?

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0908/p04s02-woeu.html

Beurger King Muslim? culture flipping about to occur!

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by our_man
Who would have thought in the early years of 21st century Britain something as insignificant as an ice cream cone would prove to be one of the first steps in the eroding of Western society and the imposition of Islamic values?

I'm actually being deadly serious folks. If these 'mujahideen' can go after something as insignificant as an ice-cream cone swirl as offensive to their beliefs, where will it stop?

The Muslim Council of Britain continues to sink lower and lower in my esteem. Why didn't they just do the sensible thing and tell the man it was just a dessert, and that he was a nutter.

Clearly it's terribly important to appease Muslims in the current climate-

One of Britain's leading conceptual artists has accused the Tate gallery of 'cowardice' after it banned one of his major works for fear of offending some Muslims after the London terrorist bombings.
John Latham's God Is Great consists of a large sheet of thick glass with copies of Islam, Christianity and Judaism's most sacred texts - the Koran, Bible and Talmud - apparently embedded within its surface.

The work was due to go on display last week in an exhibition dedicated to Latham at London's Tate Britain, but gallery officials took the unprecedented decision to veto it because of political and religious sensitivities.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1577890,00.html

So religious fanatics bomb London, and therefore the Tate and Burger King have to ensure they don't offend the delicate sensibilities of some Muslims in case they bomb Glasgow over an ice cream container...

It's great to live in the secular 21st Century, where the religious faith of some people is so strong it requires the force of state or self-censorship to prop it up.

[Datajack Franit]

And this is happening in 2005. Guess what will happen around 2050, when they will be the majority of european population

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Datajack Franit
And this is happening in 2005. Guess what will happen around 2050, when they will be the majority of european population

I've no idea. More kebab shops ?


Hunky Turco-German or Anglo-Pakistani porn stars ?

[lord of the mark]

Jihad can mean struggle, and it can mean holy war. Kinda like our word crusade.


If i was a christian (whcih I am not) and i lived in a predominantly muslim or hindu or jewish country, and said country had recently been the victim of prominent bomb attacks, carried out by christian fanatics claiming to be engaging in crusade, many of theri movments being named "christian crusade" or something like that, and I felt the need to boycott a restaurant I would think long and hard before calling that boycott a "crusade" however metaphorical.

But maybe thats just me.

Since my own faith traditions nearest equvialent would be a war of conquest of the promised land, and since that is not generally used in the culture as a metaphor (and is held by most authorities to have been completed in 1000 BCE - ther term isnt even applied to the current troubles in the middle east), I suppose I cant relate.

[lord of the mark]

BTW, theyve boycotted Burger Kng before, because BK had an outlet in a West Bank settlement (one of the large ones near Jerusalem)

They also boycotted Starbucks, cause the CEO, a Jew, had made pro-Israel (but dovish) speeches.

[Az]

The British Council of Muslims agreed with him that the cone was offensive, and supported Burger King in changing the logo (I don't expect the Council to be full of bloodthirsty barbarians).

Noone expects the spanish inquisition. Or something.


Stupid oversensitive religionists

[vomitus]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Jihad (jihād جهاد ) is an Islamic term, from the Arabic root jhd ("to exert utmost effort, to strive, struggle"), which connotes a wide range of meanings: anything from an inward spiritual struggle to attain perfect faith to a political or military struggle to further the Islamic cause.

A person who engages in any form of jihad is called a "mujahid", meaning "striver" or "struggler", though this Islamic term is most often used to mean a person who engages in fighting. It is not limited to fighting or warfare however, a Muslim struggling to memorize the Qur'an is a mujahid, for example.

Wikipedia bYnw

That doesn't mean much. If people like Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi use "jihad" to mean "attack the infidels", then it doesn't simply mean "struggle". If it meant "struggle", then I'm jihading with your definition of jihad right now.

[vomitus]

I found a photograph of the ice cream lid.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/008141.php

[Theben]

Originally posted by vomitus

That doesn't mean much. If people like Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi use "jihad" to mean "attack the infidels", then it doesn't simply mean "struggle". If it meant "struggle", then I'm jihading with your definition of jihad right now.

'Struggle' against the infidels? Not a hard concept to understand.

[germanos]

Originally posted by vomitus
I found a photograph of the ice cream lid.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatc...ves/008141.php

It's not even close to 'Allah'

Well, Mohammed was illeterate too.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Az
Stupid oversensitive religionists

This here is a case of stupid oversensitive religionists. I think it's completely wrong to bend over to any group that feels offended for a little thing, it's ludicrous PC.

However, unlike what the thread title implies, this is not going to result in Burger Kings being bombed. Considering the extent of the anti-Muslim bigotry on 'Poly (and this comes from somebody who's harsh on religions), I thought it was worth it to point it out.

[Zevico]

If i was a christian (whcih I am not)

Dude...you've been giving the 'jewish perspective' in every single religious debate I've seen on these boards, not to mention the ridiculous amount of times you've dragged out a mentioning of your daughter's bat mitzvah (damn reformist!) on these boards. In other words, it's pretty clear you ain't a christian.