Lego accused of racism with Star Wars set {by Muslims}

telegraph.co ^ | 1/23/2013 | Matthew Day

[drpix]

Lego has been accused of racism by the Turkish community over a Star Wars model that supposedly resembles one of Istanbul’s most revered mosques.

tria’s Turkish community said the model was based on Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul and that the accompanying figures depicted Asians and Orientals as people with “deceitful and criminal personalities.”

The Turkish Cultural Community of Austria released a statement calling for Lego to apologise for affronting religious and cultural feelings.

The anger was provoked by “Jabba’s Palace”, a model of the home of Jabba the Hutt from Lego’s Star Wars product range based on the blockbusting series of science fiction films

[BwanaNdege]

Next they will be complaining that the SuperDome resembles it.

[HereInTheHeartland]

I’m offending; by something. Give me a minute to figure out what it is.

[Eaker]

Maybe it would make them feel better if we bombed mecca?

[Carriage Hill]

FU muzzie filth!

[Wyatt's Torch]

Muslims are outraged about something? No way! Wake when when they aren’t...

[metmom]

My verdict: Pound Sand!

I vote for *Melt sand*.

[Mr. Lucky]

Sure it’s a race. The finish line is somewhere in the 7th Century.

[zeugma]

One of the funny things about this to me, is that until fairly recently, all Lego minifigs were yellow. They introduced black minifigs with a basketball series some years ago.

[null and void]

And why is Lego “racist” and not Star Wars?

No idea. They have no excuse for Star Wars, there are no muslims in Star Trek because it is set in the future...

[jmcenanly]

They were. I remember reading a press release by CAIR, stating that in movies such as The Golden Voyage of Sindbad Sindbad and the Eye of the Tiger, Aladin or the Star Wars movies, the villain often looks or is identified as a Muslim. What they failed to note was that in the first three movies I mentioned, everyone with a speaking part is Muslim.

[jmcenanly]

They were. I remember reading a press release by CAIR, stating that in movies such as The Golden Voyage of Sindbad , Sindbad and the Eye of the Tiger, Aladin or the Star Wars movies, the villain often looks or is identified as a Muslim. What they failed to note was that in the first three movies I mentioned, everyone with a speaking part is Muslim.

[GraceG]

They are also offended by Puppets too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIlG9aSMCpg

[Moltke]

Jeez, those Danes again. Always poking fun at the muslims.

It’s those long, dark winters, I tell ya.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

According to Google Translate, that would be ‘bok yiyip ölebilirsiniz’. ;)

[philled]

why did Constantinople get the works?

It's nobody's business but the Turks?

-- They Might Be Giants

[M Kehoe]

Hey, thanks for the close translation. Just for accuracy's sake, it is "ölebilir," without the qualifier, "siniz."

You made me look it up.

8^)

5.56mm

[TexasRepublic]

How does one say toughski-skitski in Turkish?

[NCC-1701]

“...Next they will be complaining that the SuperDome resembles it....”

As long as they leave Cowboys Stadium alone. That’s a nice place.

[Daffynition]

>>تقل شخ يصل حبل.<<

Your dirty mind! :) ***SMACK***

[Slings and Arrows]

Kinky!