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    From the BBC:

    Iranians wishing to buy Danish pastries will now have to ask for "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad".

    Bakeries across the capital, Tehran, are covering up signs advertising the pastries and replacing them with ones bearing the dessert's new name.

    The confectioners' union ordered the name change in retaliation for the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper.

    The images have caused angry protests across the world.

    The union said that their decision was prompted by the "insults by Danish newspapers against the Prophet".

    'Punishment'

    Danish pastries are very popular in Iran and not subject to a boycott affecting other Danish products as they are made locally.

    Ahmad Mahmoudi, a cake shop owner in Tehran, backed the move.

    This is a punishment for those who start misusing freedom of expression to insult the sanctities of Islam
    Shop owner Ahmad Mahmoudi

    "This is a punishment for those who start misusing freedom of expression to insult the sanctities of Islam," he said.

    But others were less convinced.

    "I just want the sweet pastries. I have nothing to do with the name," shopper Zohreh Masoumi said.

    This is not the first time a popular snack has been hit by fallout from a political row.

    French fries and French toast were renamed "freedom fries" and "freedom toast" at cafeterias in the US House of Representatives in 2003, after France opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq.
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    Published: 2006/02/17 17:58:43 GMT

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    I must ask. What is the big deal? I have not seen the pictures, and if they are that crude and if I am way off, someone please explain it to me and I will happily, humbly apologize and recind the upcoming rant.

    Rant: Christians have been taking abuse for centuries, publicly and privately. College professors routinely mock those who profess any faith in Christ whatsoever. I commonly read stories where Muslims have broken down Christian churches and forced them to renounce Christianity or face death. There are numerous imprisioned missionaries around the world. In many countries it is illegal to be Christian. Where are the imprissioned Muslim missionaries? Where is Islam illegal under fear of death? How come I can be in my apartment as a college student with 10 other people, going around in an informal circle saying what we all believe about heaven, and when it's my turn people call me a Bible bumper and get up and leave? Who's lfe has ever been drastically augmented by moving from Agnostic to an Atheist? Why do people spend so much time writing about why Christianity is wrong? Where are the volumes countering Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, pluralism, scientology, tolerance, etc? Is it that it's ok to be anything, even satanic, other than a Christian? Oh, wait, it's ok to be Christian as long as you don't speak your mind and you only talk about it amongst other Christians and at home. Hmm.. that all sounds like a satanic ploy to me. Brilliant.

    Yet, we undure under such persecution and to an extent grow strength from it. My greatest joy in life is that my Savior was mocked, grotesquely. (someone help my spelling).

    They arrested Him for claiming to be God and convicted Him on testimony that grosely conflicted. Then they blindfolded Him and beat Him with fists saying if you are really God, tell us who hit you. Then, they completely humiliated Him by lacerating his body with a flog in the open public until He was little more than a bleeding bag. He carried his cross through the entire city(or atleast tried to, but was too badly beaten), while people xontinued to mock Him and the centurians continued to whip Him. Then, in the most humiliating way known, they publically executed Him, for his own mother to watch.

    I'm leaving out some of the more gorrey details such as the synical crown of thorns, drinking vinegar, puncturing his perricardium, and suffering hypovehuvic shock, or whatever it's called.

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    But, I say with the greatest sincerity, I'm glad it happened to Him.

    It should have been me.

    It should have been worse.

    Praise be to God that I am saved from that.


    -Hikage

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    • #3
      You're missing the point, dude. It's not about religion. It's about snacks.

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