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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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Muslims will be seething ..
Is it me or does the Osama Bin Laden character look like Dan Rather
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
12/27/2007 12:19:09 PM PST
by
Kid Shelleen
(Aztlan My Azz: La Raza is Spanish for Tan Klan)
To: Kid Shelleen
That was friggin’ hilarious!
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posted on
12/27/2007 12:20:46 PM PST
by
Uriah_lost
("I don't apologize for the United States of America," -Fred D Thompson)
To: Kid Shelleen
...Liberation Army Against Freedom... ROFLMAO!!!
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posted on
12/27/2007 12:21:19 PM PST
by
lesser_satan
(READ MY LIPS: NO NEW RINOS | FRED THOMPSON - DUNCAN HUNTER '08)
To: Kid Shelleen
"Muslims will be seething .. "muslims are always seething.
They can just get over it.
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posted on
12/27/2007 12:22:01 PM PST
by
Redbob
To: Uriah_lost
Can you believe the Dutch government made it?
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posted on
12/27/2007 12:22:04 PM PST
by
Kid Shelleen
(Aztlan My Azz: La Raza is Spanish for Tan Klan)
To: Kid Shelleen
Absolutely wonderful. Thanks for finding it.
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posted on
12/27/2007 12:24:30 PM PST
by
doug from upland
(Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
To: Kid Shelleen
"What is the campaign hoping to achieve by depicting a negative stereotype of the Muslim community in a fireworks advert?" said Saad Saraf, the chief executive of multicultural marketing specialists Media Reach Advertising.But I thought that the terrorists were not really Muslims, but mere pretenders who have hijacked "the religion of peace" for their own political agenda.
So how is making fun of Islamic terrorists a negative stereotype of the Muslim community?
Unless, of course . . . .
Nah. COuldn't be. Islam is about love and mercy.
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posted on
12/27/2007 12:24:40 PM PST
by
Maceman
To: Uriah_lost
Got to hand it to those nordic nanny states. Every once in a while they come up with something entertaining.
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posted on
12/27/2007 12:25:10 PM PST
by
Callahan
To: Kid Shelleen
There’s at least three videos — all of them are hilarious.
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
12/27/2007 12:28:10 PM PST
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
12/27/2007 12:28:44 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(Merry Christmas, FReepers)
To: Callahan
A nanny-state they are, but Holland is no more “nordic” than their next-door neighbor, Belgium.
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posted on
12/27/2007 12:29:27 PM PST
by
Redbob
To: Kid Shelleen; Slings and Arrows
This ain’t no ping to 3 videos...
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posted on
12/27/2007 12:30:32 PM PST
by
Titan Magroyne
("Shorn, dumb and bleating is no way to go through life, son." Yeah, close enough.)
To: Kid Shelleen
I’ve seen those before....they are hilarious! Especially the “Mother of all Rockets” one.
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posted on
12/27/2007 12:31:13 PM PST
by
G8 Diplomat
(Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
To: Kid Shelleen
Great ad! If you click on the link to the cave ad in the article, you’ll get another, and still more will come up after that, including the Mother of All Fireworks.
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posted on
12/27/2007 12:33:36 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: knighthawk; Pharmboy
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posted on
12/27/2007 12:33:54 PM PST
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
12/27/2007 12:35:57 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(It's only arrogance if you can't back it up.)
To: Kid Shelleen
Muslims don't have to be repressed, humorless killers. They should realize that hanging out with Arab chicks in jeans and making them giggle is more fun than blowing people up.
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posted on
12/27/2007 12:38:24 PM PST
by
GraniteStateConservative
(...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
To: Maceman
Nah. COuldn't be. Islam is about love and mercy. ...And all that other pig poop.
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posted on
12/27/2007 12:40:19 PM PST
by
dearolddad
(Opinions are like rectums: everybody has one.)
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