I guess this needs to be updated now...
Posted on 09/24/2006 2:38:35 PM PDT by Pikamax
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - A car commercial proclaiming a jihad on the U.S. auto market and offering "Fatwa Fridays" with free swords for the kids is offensive and should not be aired, Muslim leaders said on Sunday.
The radio advertisement for the Dennis Mitsubishi car dealership in Columbus, Ohio, has "a whole jihad theme," said Adnan Mirza, director of the Columbus office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
"They are planning on launching a jihad on the automotive market and their representatives would be wearing burqas ... ," Mirza said. "They mentioned the pope in there and also about giving rubber swords out to the kiddies -- really just reprehensible-type comments."
Details of the radio ad, which has not yet been broadcast, have been reported in the local media, but officials at the dealership declined to comment about the content of the radio spot.
Two employees at the dealership said they had been deluged with calls about the commercial.
"The ad has never been released, it is not out for public listening," said one employee who declined to give his name. He would not say whether the dealership had changed its mind about airing the commercial.
Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Motors Corp. could not immediately be reached for comment.
Mirza said several local radio stations had already rejected the ad and he hoped the controversy would convince the dealership to rethink its sales strategy.
He also said the Council on American-Islamic Relations would likely contact the dealer to "offer some kind of cultural or sensitivity awareness training."
This is definitely one up on running with the scissors!
Watched that just a few weeks ago. Laughed myself sick! A little dated, but still hilarious.
Comrade:Thankyou for correcting me:)
"Did you know Mrs. Gonzalez? that the tires match the color of your hair?"
I guess this needs to be updated now...
You forgot kidnapping white europeans to serve as slaves in Africa. Long time ago, I know, but why shouldn't I have at least as long a memory as the muslims? I'm still waiting for an apology for that.
lol...one of the greatest movies of all time. I have that same picture pinned to my bulletin board at work. Yes, I'm in sales.
The way the salesman kept presenting himself as one ethnic group after another.
GREAT movie! Thank you, netflix.
My Pop was in dealership managment for 25 years....He never thought of camels or hacking into Superbowl games!! LOL!
LOL!
Great idea -- Play "bait the nutcase" with your customers as the bait.
What a brilliant marketing concept !
Sounds alot like my ex wife.....or for that matter....!
As long as he is sensitive about what he is doing.
ROTFLMAO!!
The muslimes are offended by ( Fill In The Blank) because (Fill In The Blank), muslime leaders said on (Fill In The Blank)
SSDD!
If Cincinnati wasn't so far away from where I live I'd buy a car from this guy even though I really don't need another car.
Heck! Maybe I'll just give him a call and have him deliver one to me. I can afford it. lol
Mr. Adnan Mirza
Director,
Columbus office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Dear Mr. Mirza:
I recently heard of your “dismay” at the thought of an automobile dealer being sooo insensitive as to contemplate a Jihad related car sales event, complete with “Fatwah Fridays and rubber swords. How awful that that crude American would do something so offensive towards one of the “world’s Great Religions”!
How dare he! I am almost as offended as I was when muslims killed, mutilated, burned and hung the corpses of the four American contractors trying to save Iraq from descending into the hellish pit of internecine warfare, or the recent kidnap, torture, murder and desecration of the bodies of two American soldiers, also trying to establish democracy in Iraq. Almost as sorry as I was when muslims attacked and tried to kill my son six times with improvised explosive devices while he was serving in Iraq. Almost as offended as I was when I learned that a catholic nun was murdered last Sunday in Sudan by muslims. Almost as offended as offended as …well, maybe you can get the point.
Listen you little sheethead: We are tired of your whining, your sniveling, your failure to assimilate, your open and covert hostility to the American way of life –you know the way of life that reveres freedom, is not afraid of people who are different, the one that provides you with freedom of religion, that protects you and your way of life inspite of your quirky behavior, your recalcitrance, your pseudo-superiority.
Take your whiney little butt, all your whiney little kids, your burka wearing wives and go back to the squalid little village you came from you @sshole!
Sincerely,
Oneolcop
Some one there at the car dealership is a great marketer. Even without airing the ad this will bring attention to the dealership and sell cars.
I wonder what the average blood pressure is in that zany, wacky, mad-cap, fun loving oasis called Islam? I was thinking that maybe they're getting a bad rap about blowing themselves up with bombs strapped to their bodies. Maybe they're blowing up because their blood pressure is so high because they're enraged 100 percent of the friggin time!
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