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'Terrorist' firework ads spark row (PC be darned; hilarious video)
UK Guardian ^
| 12/24/07
| Mark Sweney
Posted on 12/27/2007 12:17:53 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
Dutch government firework safety ads featuring a spoof Islamist terrorist group have been criticised as insensitive and depicting a negative stereotype of the Muslim community.
The online ads, made for the Dutch government's consumer safety institute, have been made to look like a video message filmed by an Islamist military organisation called the Liberation Army Against Freedom.
Featuring a group led by an Osama bin Laden lookalike figure at their camp, the viral ads are dubbed into Iraqi-accented Arabic and have versions with subtitles in Dutch and English
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To: SeafoodGumbo
LMAO! I never saw that before.
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12/27/2007 5:22:01 PM PST
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4woodenboats
(DefendOurMarines.com)
To: Incorrigible
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12/27/2007 6:01:43 PM PST
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Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must.)
To: Incorrigible
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12/27/2007 6:01:54 PM PST
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Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must.)
To: Kid Shelleen
To: Girlene
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12/27/2007 7:29:01 PM PST
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bigheadfred
(The SERGEANT EVAN VELA DEFENSE FUND,Please help! See DefendOurMarines(Iskandariyah) for more info)
To: Titan Magroyne; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ..
I seem to be on a comical terrorists theme today.
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12/27/2007 9:27:16 PM PST
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Slings and Arrows
("Bush is destroying the solar system:The ice caps on Mars are shrinking too." --Right_Wing_Madman)
To: Scarpetta
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12/27/2007 9:31:49 PM PST
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rbosque
("To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Teddy Roosevelt)
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