Posted on 10/01/2005 12:17:32 PM PDT by Eurotwit
Boeing Co. and its joint-venture partner Bell Helicopter apologized for a recently published advertisement for their V-22 Osprey aircraft that showed soldiers landing on the roof of a mosque.
The ad, published on Sept. 24 in The National Journal, a Washington government magazine, prompted immediate complaints from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which demanded an apology and the withdrawal of the campaign.
The advertisement showed troops rappelling down from an Osprey aircraft to the roof of a building labelled "Muhammad Mosque" in Arabic as smoke billows from a nearby burning car.
"It descends from the heavens. Ironically it unleashes hell," says the ad, created by Boeing and Bell Helicopter, a unit of Textron Inc., which jointly manufactured the Osprey.
The aircraft "delivers Special Forces to insertion points never thought possible," says the text of the ad.
The ad "clearly portrays special forces assaulting a mosque, a structure dedicated to civilian worship purposes," said CAIR executive director Nihad Awad, in a letter to Boeing and Bell Helicopter.
"This gives the impression that 'the insertion points never thought possible' are Islamic places of worship."
Apology
Boeing said the ad “did not proceed through normal channels" and that it was mistakenly published.
"We consider the ad offensive, regret its publication and apologize to those who like us are dismayed with its contents," said Mary Foerster, vice president at Boeing's defense unit.
Bell also apologized and said that it is considering "creative processes" to prevent a repeat.
"At the very first indication that this ad caused discomfort nearly a month ago, we immediately pulled the creative and replaced it with an alternative ad," said Bell vice president Michael Cox, in a statement. "Despite our directive to the National Journal to replace the ad, it was not replaced as requested, which resulted in its publication this week."
The National Journal also admitted it made a clerical error and accepted full responsibility in a statement issued on Friday.
A CAIR spokesman welcomed the companies’ swift reaction, but said that the organization would seek how such an ad was created.
The problem is?????
Boeing continuing to be good dhimmis....
I'd buy one.
Hey, it's not as if they're Abu-Ghraib photos...
The situation requiring U.S. soldiers to be inserted in crap-holes like mosques was created by the Mohammedan attacks on civilization finally crossing the line on 9-11-2001.
Wow - advertising DOES work!
He is right...shoulda shown landing in front of a burning mosque....
"...a structure dedicated to civilian worship purposes,".
In NY the muslim chaplain, approved by the muslim firefighters and taken from the mainstream is talking about 9-11 as a conspiracy (to knock down the twintowers and blame it on muslimes. THAT'S IN NY! FROM THE MAINSTREAM!!!
A mosque, ANYWHERE in the world, is dedicated to the physical destruction of infidels--nothing more nothing less. Anyone who says anything else is deluded or a liar.
Dont Sugar coat it...tell us how you really feel...and dont hold back....
Unfortunately, it's 2005 and we have to be good dhimmis for our Muslim overlords. Haven't you heard?
When I served I was in AWACS. I dropped them a line at wwwmail.boeing2@boeing.com letting them know of my disgust.
How dare CAIR complain, when Moslems are desecrating the holy places of others all over the world. The Palestinians were descrating synagogues in Gaza just last week.
How dare they demand that we reverence their holy places, when their coreligionists show no respect for the religion of others? They believe that they are superior. That everyone will eventually submit to Islam. Why are we going along with this?
Why should everyone in the world worry about breaking Islamic taboos, when they show no such concern for anyone else, and, in fact, persecute or ban other religions in their own countries?
This is madness.
If the shoe fits . . . .
I don't CAIR.
I could not CAIR less what the islamofascists think about an ad.
If they really cared about the image of their people they would be working on changing the reasons for the image we hold of them. They would work at getting the islamofascists to quit bombing innocent people, desecrating other religion's and their own religious places and icons. etc.
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