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October 11, 2007
Muslims Offended by Apple Mecca
It isn't easy being Muslim, and having to keep up with all the many pretexts to frighten liberals with public tantrums. The latest, via MEMRI:
On October 10, 2006, an Islamist website posted a message alerting Muslims to what it claims is a new insult to Islam. According to the message, the cube-shaped building which is being constructed in New York City, on Fifth Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets in midtown Manhattan, is clearly meant to provoke Muslims. The fact that the building resembles the Ka'ba (see picture below), is called "Apple Mecca," is intended to be open 24 hours a day like the Ka'ba, and moreover, contains bars selling alcoholic beverages, constitutes a blatant insult to Islam. The message urges Muslims to spread this alert, in hope that "Muslims will be able to stop the project."
Yes, this was a year ago. But students in Kashmir are just now getting around to rioting over it.
The Kabaa is where Muslims keep the magic meteor Arabs have been worshipping since before Mohammad turned up. When they were still building the Apple Mecca, it did look kind of like the Kabaa, because it was covered in black:
However, it doesn't anymore:
Alcohol isn't really served in it, and the store is called Apple Mecca by Apple fans, not by Apple itself. But it is cube-shaped and open 24 hours, just like the Kabaa, reason enough for Rage Boy et al. to yell and tear their hair.
Look for Democrats to propose banning cube-shaped buildings in the name of cross-cultural sensitivity.
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Rage Boy and friends have been too busy to protest the Apple Mecca until recently. |
Hat tip: American Thinker, on a tip from Jim Bowie at the Alamo.
Posted by Van Helsing at October 11, 2007 5:26 PM
Comments
Muslims throwing rocks at glass houses?
Have YOU slapped a silly muslim today?
Posted by: Jimbo at October 11, 2007 6:30 PM
Moonbat global warming brainwashing has kids stressed out:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2189504,00.html
Posted by: Anonymous at October 11, 2007 6:56 PM
"The Kabaa is where Muslims keep the magic meteor Arabs have been worshipping since before Mohammad turned up."
Sounds like idolatry.
Posted by: forest at October 11, 2007 8:35 PM
It looks more like a copy of a Borg cube from Star Trek. As a fan of Star Trek, I find it highly offensive! Where are all the dones? And why isnt it flying?
Posted by: Anonymous at October 12, 2007 4:53 AM
I'd say it looks more like a giant Rubik's Cube.
More percisely THE PEOPLES CUBE !!
http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=64
Posted by: Anonymous at October 12, 2007 5:03 AM
Meanwhile, the Islamists allies, the Democrats, are afraid of getting cooties from NASCAR folk.
Posted by: V the K at October 12, 2007 5:36 AM
Moonbattery at its best! Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize - now he can jet around the world to brag about it.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NOBEL_PEACE?SITE=PAPIT&SECTION=NATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Previous winners/nominees of the socalled Peace prize:
Jimmy Carter
Fidel Castro
Adolph Hitler
Josef Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Yes, Gores in good company.
Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at October 12, 2007 6:11 AM
I'm glad Rage Boy is taking a few days off. Maybe he got a job as a "scareacter" at Universal Studios' "Halloween Horror Nights".
Posted by: KHarn at October 12, 2007 2:03 PM
Whoever did the bottom photo in the article is more worthy of the Nobel than darn near all the recipients up to now!:D:D:D
Posted by: Toa at October 12, 2007 6:01 PM
If they can't take a joke ...
Oh yeah, they can't.
Well then...
Posted by: epaminondas at October 13, 2007 1:14 PM
If they are so offended by cubical buildings, The Vehicle Assembly building at Cape Canaveral should really get their collective goat. It is a lot bigger,525 feet tall and covers 8 acres.The Ka'ba is only 43 feet tall. Even the American flag painted on it side dwarfs the Ka'ba. And for all its size, it is basically a hangar for spacecraft.
Posted by: James F McEnanly at October 14, 2007 11:39 AM
