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"Jihad" car commercial upsets Muslims
Reuters ^ | 09/24/06 | Reuters

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."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adnanmirza; cair; fatwafridays; jihadcarcommercial; mirza
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To: michigander

This is definitely one up on running with the scissors!


41 posted on 09/24/2006 3:08:35 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (If you read only one book this year, read "Stolen Valor".)
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To: Dallas59

Watched that just a few weeks ago. Laughed myself sick! A little dated, but still hilarious.


42 posted on 09/24/2006 3:09:47 PM PDT by Verloona Ti (Moslems are sensitive to everything except the screams of their victims being tortured)
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To: taxesareforever

Comrade:Thankyou for correcting me:)


43 posted on 09/24/2006 3:10:17 PM PDT by Thombo2
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To: Verloona Ti

"Did you know Mrs. Gonzalez? that the tires match the color of your hair?"


44 posted on 09/24/2006 3:15:00 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Muslims Are Only Guests In Western Countries)
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To: Pikamax

I guess this needs to be updated now...

45 posted on 09/24/2006 3:17:14 PM PDT by Allegra (Home, Sweet Home!)
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To: Verloona Ti
"Enslaving black Africans"

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.

46 posted on 09/24/2006 3:17:46 PM PDT by Jason_b
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To: Dallas59

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.


47 posted on 09/24/2006 3:18:05 PM PDT by FlJoePa (Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.)
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To: Dallas59
The guy who objected to seeing a (Jimmy Carter ) presidential address because "-I'm tryin' to eat here!"

The way the salesman kept presenting himself as one ethnic group after another.

GREAT movie! Thank you, netflix.

48 posted on 09/24/2006 3:18:35 PM PDT by Verloona Ti (Moslems are sensitive to everything except the screams of their victims being tortured)
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To: FlJoePa

My Pop was in dealership managment for 25 years....He never thought of camels or hacking into Superbowl games!! LOL!


49 posted on 09/24/2006 3:21:09 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Muslims Are Only Guests In Western Countries)
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To: Allegra

LOL!


50 posted on 09/24/2006 3:22:41 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Muslims Are Only Guests In Western Countries)
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To: Albert Barr; Gondring

Great idea -- Play "bait the nutcase" with your customers as the bait.

What a brilliant marketing concept !


51 posted on 09/24/2006 3:23:20 PM PDT by RS ("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
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To: Cicero

52 posted on 09/24/2006 3:23:48 PM PDT by Triggerhippie (Always use a silencer in a crowd. Loud noises offend people.)
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To: Jason_b
I was concentrating on atrocities moslems have commited against the rest of us that're going on right now; atrocities that I've read about here on FR, LGF, and JW/DW. But yeah, I loathe this"religion" for inspiring the kidnapping and enslaving of white Europeans (did you know that at least some of their slaver voyages got as far north as Ireland?), and for what they've done to the formerly Christian countries of the near and middle east, too.
53 posted on 09/24/2006 3:24:10 PM PDT by Verloona Ti (Moslems are sensitive to everything except the screams of their victims being tortured)
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To: Tarheel

Sounds alot like my ex wife.....or for that matter....!


54 posted on 09/24/2006 3:25:11 PM PDT by free from tyranny
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To: jdm
But training your 4 year old kid to be a suicide bomber is okay.

As long as he is sensitive about what he is doing.

55 posted on 09/24/2006 3:26:08 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s...you weren't really there.)
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To: 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.

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

56 posted on 09/24/2006 3:30:57 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: michigander

Happy shoppers converge on the dealership while a boy and his father display little rubber swords handed out by the salesmen.
57 posted on 09/24/2006 3:31:19 PM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: Pikamax

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


58 posted on 09/24/2006 3:34:32 PM PDT by oneolcop (Take off the Gloves!)
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To: Pikamax
"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."

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.

59 posted on 09/24/2006 3:34:51 PM PDT by TheCrusader
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To: Pikamax
"Jihad" car commercial upsets Muslims

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!

60 posted on 09/24/2006 3:34:53 PM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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