Thursday, October 12, 2006

Some Days, Everything's an Insult to Islam

HEAVEN FORBID YOU CALL SOMETHING A "MECCA."


While I normally take MEMRI's posts with a grain of salt, this photo and the accompanying caption speak for themselves.


[Thanks to Metafilter.]

2 comments:

"Tunafish" said...

firstly, where does the word mecca originate from?

after you check that out , please continue reading..

you cant:
1-call a name a building after a holy place to someones faith...
2-have it shaped like the most sacred of buildings to that same faith
3-also have it go against that relegions teachings (by selling alcohol) when its a fuckin computer store.


either a hardcore coincedence or completely intended.
belive what you want but atleast think about it first.

'would you like a shot of whiskey with your new 1 gig of RAM? '

if you apply the three points i made but in the context of any other faith you will get the same result of being insulted by the followers of that faith.

god bless you , have a good day.

Paul D. Kretkowski said...

Once the black scaffolding came down, the new Apple Store didn't look much like the ka'aba at all:

http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=7&id=5855

As one wag put it, if Steve Jobs really wanted it to look like the ka'aba, he would have designed the building so that shoppers would have to enter it in a circular manner.

--Paul Kretkowski

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