Iran: 'Racist' 2012 Olympics logo spells out 'Zion'

Haaretz ^ | 2/28/11 | Associated Press

[Former Fetus]

Iran objects to the logo for the 2012 London Olympics, contending it is racist because it resembles the word "Zion" and warning of a possible boycott of the games.

The secretary general of Iran's National Olympic Committee said Iran sent a letter to International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge. The letter claims the 2012 logo spells out "Zion," a biblical term widely recognized to refer to the city of Jerusalem.

In comments carried by the official IRNA news agency Monday, secretary general Bahram Afsharzadeh said the letter urges other Muslim states to oppose the "racist logo."

[tet68]

Plain as the nose on your face.
Clever how they do that.
It’s amazing what a muslim has to put up with today.
/S

[trisham]

More likely that it will suffer an attack of some kind. It’s happened before.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[IronJack]

If Iran boycotts the games, then the gold in Beheading will be a tossup between Pakistan and Yemen. Butchery should go to the Iraqis, although the Afghans are coming on strong in the prelims, and Indonesia has the Suicide Bombing team event locked up.

[Mears]

Ditto !

Were they all drunk when they chose this?

[Leo Farnsworth]

I see: ‘rats’ - remember that commercial?

Oh well, to each zealot his own zealotry...

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Putin Inc. was soo disgusted with the weird teletubby mascots originally selected, they put it to a vote (yes Russian style were people waste the time to vote, and Putin Inc. selects the winner). Here is the final mascots for the Russian winter olympics and they actually aren't too bad. The bear, snow leapord, and rabbit are their olympics mascots. The fire boy and snowflake girl are the special olympics mascots.

compare these to the absolutely bizarre London Olympics mascots which has the world saying, "WTF???"

[Netizen]

Wow, the Olympics just wouldn’t be the same without Iran. /s

[bigredkitty1]

The London Olympic Committee paid someone good money to design THAT??? I’d ask for a refund.

[Ouderkirk]

It’s pretty bad as far as logo’s go, but Zion? Not seeing it.

And Iran, STFU, we’ve had enough of your silly crap.

[Netizen]

It sure is ugly. They couldn’t find a better font to use to say

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[Netizen]

That’s awesome

[healy61]

I never got the thing about the camel cig package. What was the deal with it?

[Netizen]

You left out the Chechnyan's, they are real sleepers in most events.

[Soothesayer]

All the best minds in England were put to work on this logo...unfortunately none of them were employed.

[AnAmericanMother]

Oh, people claim to see things in the shading on the camel.

On the camel's front leg there's either the little Belgian boy (the "Manikin-Pis") or a nude guy, depending on who you ask. Some guy wrote a book about subliminal advertising and made a big deal out of it.

[Darkwolf377]

That thing looks like an artist’s rendition of Obama dancing.

[Netizen]

What’s with the cyclops? What’s the plural of cyclops? Cyclops’, cyclopses, cyclopsi?

[normy]

It actually spells ZOIN or perhaps Zoiz, but whatever it spells its stupid looking and kinda gay.

[Former Fetus]

Cyclopes (according to the on-line Webster’s dictionary). Who would have guessed?