Posted on 10/01/2006 11:23:03 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
A ceramic bobblehead doll of the Prophet Muhammed - created to resemble the infamous caricature published by a Danish newspaper - is being hawked online for $22.99 a pop by an ex-Marine.
The unapologetic creator, Timothy Ames, 28, said the bobblehead is similar to "dashboard Jesus" figurines that can be stuck with adhesive to flat surfaces. "I thought, 'If they flipped out over some cartoons what will they do with a dashboard Muhammed?'" Ames said from his home in Hawaii.
But Islamic experts are not amused, saying the bobbleheads could anger Muslims, whose religion strictly prohibits depictions of the prophet.
"No depiction of the prophet, even if it is positive, should be made ever - and certainly not one as ridiculous as the bobblehead Muhammed," said Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, an assistant professor at New York University. "I don't think it's about freedom of speech. This is the freedom to insult, which he shouldn't be doing."
Ames said several hundred people have purchased the dolls online, and he has paid a Chinese manufacturer to create 1,000 more. "I just think it's funny," he said.
Violent protests erupted last winter across the Muslim world after a Danish newspaper published cartoons lampooning the Prophet Muhammed as a suicide bomber. Many European papers reprinted the cartoons.
"People who get p----d off about this, they're going to get p----d off regardless," Ames, a baptized Christian, said.
The sophomoric Web site where Ames, using the pen name "Filthy," sells the bobbleheads also features a collection of scattered rants. In one, he writes: "I'm really not into slamming people just for their religion. Most of the stupid people I've met are stupid despite their religion, not because of it."
Frank Peters, a professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at NYU, warned that a bobblehead Muhammed was "a really bad idea."
"Jews and Christians have gotten used to this kind of thing, but Muslims haven't," he said. "This may not be his intention, but these things have consequences."
Where have you been, my friend?
O.J. is a free man, in part, because the L.A. county D.A., worried about trying O.J. is a predominently white community after the L.A. riots, transferred venue.
I like the way you think.
Yes I ordered one but I'm still hunting the cair address for my next order............
How about that song.....
"I don't care if it rains or freezes
Cause I got my plastic Jesus
Hanging from the dashboard of my car!
I can go one hundred miles per hour
Cause I got the All Mighty Power
Dangling from the dashboard of my car!"
CAIR CHICAGO
28 E. Jackson Blvd.
Suite 1410
Chicago, IL 60604
:o)
A fool and his money.....
I thought it was Bill Gates.
But it's Rainn Wilson, Dwight Schrute of THE OFFICE!!!
Not ostracize him, shun him, or keep away from him BUT "KILL HIM"...
Yup.
Do the bobbleheads come with little accessory blades so you can lop off Mohammed's head when you get bored of it ? Don't know, just asking.
That's me. Infidel...and proud of it. Nyak!
"No Justice No Peace" isn't a slogan -- it is a threat.
"DUANE DIBBLEY?"
ROFL
"I get a warning from Netscape when I open that site that they have been reported as a "phishing site". Phishing is one method of identity theft so be careful providing personal information."
Be careful. I wouldn't give out any information to the website. You don't know who will wind up with the info. I had posted my university email address on FR some time ago and some person calling himself a vigilante anti-racist, reported (anonymously) to my university and to the police that I was a member of a white supremacist organization (FR). I won't go into the details of the incident but it was a real hassle. Now the police are trying to find the guy to charge him with making false police reports.
In case you missed it.
got mine!
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