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Iran Renames Danish Pastries (Now & forever to be referred to a "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad." )
Associated Press ^
| 2/16/06
| ALI AKBAR DAREINI
Posted on 02/16/2006 1:04:47 PM PST by presidio9
Iranians love Danish pastries, but when they look for the flaky dessert at the bakery they now have to ask for "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad."
Bakeries across the capital were covering up their ads for Danish pastries Thursday after the confectioners' union ordered the name change in retaliation for caricatures of the Muslim prophet published in a Danish newspaper.
"Given the insults by Danish newspapers against the prophet, as of now the name of Danish pastries will give way to 'Rose of Muhammad' pastries," the union said in its order.
"This is a punishment for those who started misusing freedom of expression to insult the sanctities of Islam," said Ahmad Mahmoudi, a cake shop owner in northern Tehran.
One of Tehran's most popular bakeries, "Danish Pastries," covered up the word "Danish" on its sign with a black banner emblazoned "Oh Hussein," a reference to a martyred saint of Shiite Islam. The banner is a traditional sign of mourning.
The shop owner declined to comment Thursday.
In Zartosht Street in central Tehran, cake shop owner Mahdi Pedari didn't cover up the word "Danish pastries" on his menu, but put the new name next to it.
"I did so just to inform my customers that Rose of Muhammad is the new name for Danish pastries," he said.
Some customers took immediately to the new name. But others were less enthusiastic about the protest.
"I just want the sweet pastries. I have nothing to do with the name," homemaker Zohreh Masoumi told the sales clerk taking her order.
The drawings, which have offended many Muslims, were published in a Danish newspaper in September and then reprinted in European and American newspapers. One depicted the prophet with a turban shaped like a bomb with a burning fuse.
Islam widely holds that representations of Muhammad are banned for fear they could lead to idolatry. At least 19 people have been killed in protests over the past several weeks, most of them in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Consumer boycotts of Danish goods, from Havarti cheese to Lego, are costing Denmark's companies millions in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Muslim countries.
Iranians love sweets, often bringing candies and pastries to parties. So-called "Danish pastries" are extremely popular.
The Danish's distinctive dough was first created in the 17th century by a French apprentice baker who forgot to add butter to the flour and tried to hide his mistake by folding lumps of it into the dough. It became known as "a thousand leaves" in France.
It was copied in Italy where it is known as "folded pastry" and Italian bakers took it to Austria. It journeyed from there to Denmark when Danish bakers went on strike and replacements imported from Austria brought along what became known in Denmark as "Viennese Bread."
The pastry became the Danish to the rest of the world, probably, according to the Danish bakers' union, because Danish bakers emigrated to so many countries.
In Iran, the pastries are domestically baked, not imported. Iran has cut all commercial ties with Denmark in retaliation for the prophet cartoons.
Iran's Danish renaming wasn't the first time a food name has become a symbol of protest. A Republican congressman from North Carolina helped lead an effort to make sure Capitol Hill cafeterias changed their menus to advertise "freedom fries" instead of french fries after France opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: danish; denmark; food; iran; pastries; rosesoftheprophet
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There was another article with the same title last week. This is the AP providing further details.
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posted on
02/16/2006 1:04:48 PM PST
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
Do they sell French fries?
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posted on
02/16/2006 1:05:41 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: presidio9
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posted on
02/16/2006 1:06:30 PM PST
by
AntiGuv
To: presidio9
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posted on
02/16/2006 1:06:30 PM PST
by
AntiGuv
To: presidio9
They are truly out of their minds.
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posted on
02/16/2006 1:07:22 PM PST
by
conservativebabe
("I went hunting with the VP and all I got was this lousy, holey t-shirt"- mewzilla)
To: BenLurkin
I still order "Freedon Fries," just to be a wise-ass.
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posted on
02/16/2006 1:07:36 PM PST
by
presidio9
("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
To: presidio9
Here is a photo of "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad."
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posted on
02/16/2006 1:07:57 PM PST
by
dynachrome
("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
To: presidio9
Iranians love Danish pastries, but when they look for the flaky dessert at the bakery they now have to ask for "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad." And I have renamed Persian Lamb: "Testicles of the Prophet Muhammad."
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posted on
02/16/2006 1:08:13 PM PST
by
Tokra
(I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
To: presidio9
So, who wants a bite of Muhammad?
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posted on
02/16/2006 1:08:37 PM PST
by
SmithL
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: presidio9
Yep, the Rose of Muhammad goes in one end and comes out the other as crap. Just like real prophet.
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posted on
02/16/2006 1:08:51 PM PST
by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: presidio9
OMG That is hysterical!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
02/16/2006 1:09:12 PM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
To: presidio9
So, to paraphrase Ty Webb, "A flute with no holes is not a flute, and a donut with no holes is a Rose of the Prophet Muhammed.". Yeah, that works.
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posted on
02/16/2006 1:09:27 PM PST
by
T.Smith
To: presidio9
Isn't this taking Mohammed's name in vain? Attributing his name to a breakfast food?
Gonna be more riots.
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posted on
02/16/2006 1:09:40 PM PST
by
weegee
(We are all Danes now.)
To: presidio9
So what. The Danish word for these pastries is "vienbrot" means "Vienna bread".
To: dynachrome
That's EXACTLY what I was thinking!
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posted on
02/16/2006 1:09:45 PM PST
by
T Minus Four
(Some assembly required (but not as much as before!).)
To: presidio9
That's OK...Iran will soon be referred to as North Israel.
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posted on
02/16/2006 1:10:02 PM PST
by
mak5
To: presidio9
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."
~A passage from his book "The River War" written by Sir Winston Churchill in 1899 after he had participated in the Sudanese campaign.
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posted on
02/16/2006 1:10:02 PM PST
by
DoctorMichael
(The Fourth-Estate is a Fifth-Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: presidio9
Iran! Hah. What a rathole.
We are being led to believe that they are pro-American.
Don't forget, some 85% of them are in favor of their nuclear weapons program. Just watch how pro-American they all are when we do the right thing and blast it all to smithereens.
BTW - all of the pics in the graphic below are from Iran.
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posted on
02/16/2006 1:10:06 PM PST
by
Bon mots
To: presidio9
if your going to San Francisco
be sure to wear some jihad in your hair...
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posted on
02/16/2006 1:11:22 PM PST
by
Rakkasan1
(Muslims pray to Allah, Allah prays to Chuck Norris.)
To: Bon mots
Ooops... except for the one in the bottom right-hand corner, of the Palestinian baby-terrorist.
(Pressed "Post" too fast!)
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posted on
02/16/2006 1:11:28 PM PST
by
Bon mots
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