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pr126
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 Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:11 am Post subject: ‘Terrorist’ ringtone advert banned |
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‘Terrorist’ ringtone advert banned
| Quote: | 2008/10/01
A TELEVISION advert for an “Ahmed the dead terrorist” ringtone mocked Islam and must be withdrawn, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled.
The ruling followed a complaint against the GloMobile advertisement that shows American stand-up comedian Jeff Durham holding a skeleton puppet named Ahmed with a white cloth around its head, which demands : “Silence! I kill you”.
The ASA said this was offensive to Islam and created the impression that all Muslims were terrorists who would kill to get people to be quiet.
The ASA said it appeared the puppet was meant to represent a terrorist, and t he name Ahmed appeared to be of Arab origin and was one of the names of the Islamic prophet Mohammed.
“To associate this divine inspiration to a terrorist is offensive to the people who believe in him (Mohammed).”
The ASA ordered GloMobile to withdraw the advert . — Sapa |
How about this then?
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AHAHHAHA!
"The ASA said this was offensive to Islam and created the impression that all Muslims were terrorists who would kill to get people to be quiet. "
uh... are you goddamn blind, deaf AND dumb?
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pr126
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From my sig:
"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see." -- Ayn Rand
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Not all of them are violent and want to kill you...
Only the ones that follow their holey book.
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pr126
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| baddogma wrote: | Not all of them are violent and want to kill you...
Only the ones that follow their holey book. |
You right of course.
However, those who don't follow their "holey book" are deemed hypocrites, not true Muslims, and can be killed along with the kuffar.
I am sorry, but those are the rules.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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A very clever ploy on the part of GloMobile. Now they will get all kinds of free publicity for an ad that they don't even need to pay to run anymore.
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take down this commercial of a muslim saying "silence, or I kill you". it makes people think muslims kill people who don't "silence!" otherwise if you don't silence this commercial a muslim will kill you.  |
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| hillbillyatheist wrote: | | take down this commercial of a muslim saying "silence, or I kill you". it makes people think muslims kill people who don't "silence!" otherwise if you don't silence this commercial a muslim will kill you. |
An even deeper irony is that they don't even need to kill us to shut us up anymore. Terrorism wins.
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| kmisho wrote: | | hillbillyatheist wrote: | | take down this commercial of a muslim saying "silence, or I kill you". it makes people think muslims kill people who don't "silence!" otherwise if you don't silence this commercial a muslim will kill you. |
An even deeper irony is that they don't even need to kill us to shut us up anymore. Terrorism wins. |
agreed. |
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