Excerpts from an AP Report
The owner of a car dealership that planned to air a radio advertisement calling for “a jihad on the automotive market” has issued an apology and promised not to use the commercial.
Several stations had already rejected the spot from Dennis Mitsubishi, which boasted that sales representatives wearing “burqas” — head-to-toe traditional dress for Islamic women — would sell vehicles that can “comfortably seat 12 jihadists in the back.”
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In the ad, Dennis talks about “launching a jihad on the automotive market” and giving away toy swords to children.
“Our prices are lower than the evildoers’ every day. Just ask the pope!” the ad says. “Friday is fatwa Friday, with free rubber swords for the kiddies.”
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LOL “comfortably seat 12 jihadists in the back.” Yeah, Islam is a laugh riot, emphasis on “riot.”
i thought they were non-violent group of people. no?
Would any Christians in the audience bitch and moan if I were to launch a Crusade on the automotive market?
I dont get the fuss about this. Soldiers are expected to go overseas and kill muslims, but a bit of comedy relief about the war is not allowed? If one is not allowed, both should not be allowed.
i actually had a chance to meet one of the guys who was working at crown when they developed the hitler/new crown soft cookie ads. he was one of the marketing guys.
according to him, no one in that office had any idea that they would get the reaction they did.
being funny is a hard way to make a living. i think that’s why so many comedians are able to make good dramatic actors, but it rarely works the other way around.
on a slightly different note, does anyone remember the great car ads in the weird al movie UHF? “I will club a baby seal to make a better deal!” that’s funny.
I fail to see why this post belongs on this blog.
Historically, Mitsubishi did have some connection to certain kinds of “suicide bombers”.
Ouch!
Fer Chrissakes… Why didn’t the guy just have a black guy eating a watermellon and going, “Des cars sho is good for niggas.” while he was at it?
Well…Islam is not a race, so the dealer wasn’t making racial slurs if that’s what you mean William G. The commercial was maybe in poor taste (still funny as hell) but then again blowing up people on subways, trains, and in skyscrapers because they don’t follow your retarded beliefs–that’s in really poor taste.
Blogs this belongs on:
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/
http://jihadwatch.org/
http://www.welt.de/z/plog/blog.php/the_free_west
Blogs this doesn’t belong on:
The Marmot’s, or Dramman’s Hole, or whatever it is nowadays…
Marmot often blogs on politics in other countries…he even posts pics of Filipinas with big knockers, so this post is not totally out of the norm.
And big those knockers were…
Ahh, I remember well
Bigotry aint limited to race you know.