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		John Maynard Keynes

2006.10.01

Dashboard Mohammed

Apparently, in high demand:

Dashboard Mohammed

A quote from the Daily News reads (H/T Michelle Malkin):

Frank Peters, a professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at NYU, warned that a bobblehead Muhammed was “a really bad idea.”

“Jews and Christians have gotten used to this kind of thing, but Muslims haven’t,” he said. “This may not be his intention, but these things have consequences.”

Well. I say let the desensitization begin. It might prevent the logical outcome of current trajectories.

A question, though. If no one is allowed to depict Mohammed, how do they know what he looks like? Maybe Mohammed doesn’t look like Dashboard Mohammed at all, which would mean all those symbols of rage (Danish cartoons, South Park episodes, etc.) are not offensive in the least because they actually don’t represent Mohammed.

Maybe he looks like this:

Circle

Or this:

Square

Or this:

Triangle

Would these images be representations of Mohammed if I said they were, or even simply claimed it was my intention that they were? In a rational mind, Dashboard Mohammed could be declared as not being The Mohammed rather just a Mohammed and all would be peachy. But rage blinds the rational mind like a hot iron to the eye.

If the radical Muslims could please provide a picture of what nobody is supposed to depict then all this nonsense can stop and we can all be respectful. But then, of course, they’d have to declare jihad on themselves. This reads like the Knights Who Say “Ni”. You know, the iron clad chaps from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Those fellows who can’t say that word…er…can’t think of it right now. Ooops! That’s it. Argh! I wrote it again! There, I’ve written it again! I can’t stop writing it! Help!

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2006.10.01

Sorry. The quote from Michelle Malkin is linked, just further up in her post. Link added to this post.

Also edited for clarity.

One Response to “Dashboard Mohammed”

  1. James Says:
    October 2nd, 2006 at 10:55 pm

    The so called experts don’t get it. They fall over themselves saying that the bobble head is a bad idea. I reject their PC line of bovine excrement and replace it with reality. A bobble head Mohammed is offensive to some like Mapplethorpe’s Christ in urine was offensive. But, I as a Christian, did not burn the homes of those who gave Mapplethorpe funding and grants and displayed is work. I did not cut off heads. I did not become a suicide bomber and I am not turning vehicles, air born or other wise, into bombs.

    I do not yield my values and culture to threats of terror. I consider the attack on the Twin Towers more than offensive. Like the attacks on the Marines in Beirut, the attacks on the US embassies in Africa, and the USS Cole the attack on the towers was an act of war. The militant muslims can be offended. They can rant and rave and stomp each other to death in the streets in anger. They can cheer when our dead are paraded. I will not yield to their threats, their notions of vengeance or, their stated one hundred year plan to take out the West and replace it with a muslim state. Let the muslims be upset that Mr. Ames has produced a bobble headed Mohammed. Let them be offended at the words of the Pope as he pulls quotes from centuries past and then prove the words of the quote correct by their actions. I don’t care that those who have declared war on me, my family and my country are offended. Let the experts pull the plank from their own eye before they go pointing out the speck in Mr. Ames eye and then with that plank removed they might see reality for what it is. I hope Mr. Ames sells enough bobble heads to make the Danes nervous and the Chinese filthy rich. Grow a spine academia! Semper Fi Mr. Ames

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