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Apple's "Mecca Project" Provokes Muslim Reaction
MEMRI Middle East Research Institute ^ | October 11, 2006 | MEMRI

Posted on 10/10/2006 2:52:04 PM PDT by absalom01

Apple's "Mecca Project" Provokes Muslim Reaction

On October 10, 2006, an Islamic website posted a message alerting Muslims to what it claims is a new insult to Islam. According to the message, the cube-shaped building which is being constructed in New York City, on Fifth Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets in midtown Manhattan, is clearly meant to provoke Muslims. The fact that the building resembles the Ka'ba (see picture below), is called "Apple Mecca," is intended to be open 24 hours a day like the Ka'ba, and moreover, contains bars selling alcoholic beverages, constitutes a blatant insult to Islam. The message urges Muslims to spread this alert, in hope that "Muslims will be able to stop the project."



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; Philosophy; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: givemeabreak; islam; muslims; offendedmuslimsagain; paranoidprimitives
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1 posted on 10/10/2006 2:52:04 PM PDT by absalom01
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Put a pig on top. Then it wouldn't resemble anything islamic.


2 posted on 10/10/2006 2:55:17 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Never forget Matt Maupin)
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To: absalom01

Oh I thought this was a project name from Apple Computer. These guys have made people mad before with a project codenamed "Sagan". Carl Sagan sued and they renamed it to project "BHA" for Butt Head Astronomer. So he sued again..


3 posted on 10/10/2006 2:55:21 PM PDT by trashcanbred (Anti-social and anti-socialist)
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To: absalom01

At least they're offended by it, and not using it as a symbol of conquered land.


4 posted on 10/10/2006 2:55:44 PM PDT by Squeako (ACLU: "Only Christians, Boy Scouts and War Memorials are too vile to defend.")
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5 posted on 10/10/2006 2:56:19 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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Why don't all these easily-offended Muslims just go back where they came from, where there aren't any buildings, stores, bars, coffee shops, technology, or anything else modern to "offend" them.


6 posted on 10/10/2006 2:56:57 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: absalom01

It also resembles a Rubik's Cube without the stickers.. Should nerds be insulted too?


7 posted on 10/10/2006 2:57:15 PM PDT by mnehring (http://abaraxas.blogspot.com/)
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To: absalom01
Yep, it's a plot. Non-Muslims all over the world sit around all day thinking up ways to insult them.
8 posted on 10/10/2006 2:57:21 PM PDT by DejaJude (Admiral Clark said, "Our mantra today is life, liberty and the pursuit of those who threaten it!")
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To: absalom01

This is joke, right?


9 posted on 10/10/2006 2:57:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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To: absalom01

This is a building?


10 posted on 10/10/2006 2:57:57 PM PDT by Ben Mugged
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To: absalom01

They look for reasons to get pis8ed off.


11 posted on 10/10/2006 2:58:08 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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To: absalom01
What the hell is it?

A black box where you buy booze and insult muslims?

Let's go Mets!


12 posted on 10/10/2006 2:58:20 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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contains bars selling alcoholic beverages

Seems kind of small for that.

13 posted on 10/10/2006 2:58:23 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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Hey, losers you're a little late. The store was finished being built a long time ago.

Here's a link:

Apple Store Fifth Avenue
Here's a picture:
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14 posted on 10/10/2006 2:59:01 PM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: dead

Hey, Jack!
Which way's Mecca?



15 posted on 10/10/2006 2:59:32 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: absalom01

Is there anything that DOESN'T offend Muslims, other than murdering anybody who doesn't agree with them? (That was a rhetorical question)


16 posted on 10/10/2006 2:59:59 PM PDT by KarinG1 (Opinions expressed in this post are my own and do not necessarily represent those of sane people.)
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To: absalom01

IslamoFeces get enraged at ANYTHING.

Islam is not a religion. It is a form of institutionalized homicidal paranoid schizophrenia.


17 posted on 10/10/2006 3:00:40 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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Mohameddans are offended?


I am shocked, truly and deeply shocked!







































....or it could be one of those days ending in "y".


18 posted on 10/10/2006 3:04:00 PM PDT by Hawk1976 (Borders. Language. Culture. AAA-0. Free Travis Mcgee.)
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To: absalom01

Apple's marketing has been the black box with a white apple for a number of years. At the trade shows, their area is walled off with black walls. I've worked with Apple at the shows and have never heard their marketing scheme called "mecca."


19 posted on 10/10/2006 3:06:35 PM PDT by debg
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To: avg_freeper

Well, it's pretty and bright, but what is it?


20 posted on 10/10/2006 3:07:29 PM PDT by DejaJude (Admiral Clark said, "Our mantra today is life, liberty and the pursuit of those who threaten it!")
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