You have to love America!! If there is a way to make fun out of the outrageous, an American will find it. If there’s a way to make a buck out of the ridiculous, an American will think of it.
So now we have the Bobblehead Mohammad.
A former Marine created this little dashboard treat, apparently inspired by the mohammad cartoon wars of a last winter.
Once again, the religion of peace is outraged, but then they are always outraged. I imagine there will be more riots, more church burnings, more threats and more demands to surrender to islam.
From the New York Daily News
A ceramic bobblehead doll of the Prophet Muhammed - created to resemble the infamous caricature published by a Danish newspaper - is being hawked online for $22.99 a pop by an ex-Marine.
The unapologetic creator, Timothy Ames, 28, said the bobblehead is similar to “dashboard Jesus” figurines that can be stuck with adhesive to flat surfaces. “I thought, ‘If they flipped out over some cartoons what will they do with a dashboard Muhammed?’” Ames said from his home in Hawaii.
Has there been a fatwa issued for Ames yet? If not, we can probably expect one at any time.
But Islamic experts are not amused, saying the bobbleheads could anger Muslims, whose religion strictly prohibits depictions of the prophet.
Are they EVER amused?
“No depiction of the prophet, even if it is positive, should be made ever - and certainly not one as ridiculous as the bobblehead Muhammed,” said Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, an assistant professor at New York University. “I don’t think it’s about freedom of speech. This is the freedom to insult, which he shouldn’t be doing.”
Actually, it IS about freedom of speech. Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, you live in New York - you need to go back to Tehran if you don’t like bobbleheads. I bet you didn’t have a problem with a bobblehead Jesus.
Ames said several hundred people have purchased the dolls online, and he has paid a Chinese manufacturer to create 1,000 more. “I just think it’s funny,” he said.
Violent protests erupted last winter across the Muslim world after a Danish newspaper published cartoons lampooning the Prophet Muhammed as a suicide bomber. Many European papers reprinted the cartoons.
“People who get p—-d off about this, they’re going to get p—-d off regardless,” Ames, a baptized Christian, said.
The sophomoric Web site where Ames, using the pen name “Filthy,” sells the bobbleheads also features a collection of scattered rants. In one, he writes: “I’m really not into slamming people just for their religion. Most of the stupid people I’ve met are stupid despite their religion, not because of it.”
It’s Capitalism at it’s finest. I hope Ames makes a mint off his idea.
Frank Peters, a professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at NYU, warned that a bobblehead Muhammed was “a really bad idea.”
“Jews and Christians have gotten used to this kind of thing, but Muslims haven’t,” he said. “This may not be his intention, but these things have consequences.”
Well, maybe it’s time for the muslims to get used to the idea of being made fun of as well. And just what kind of consequences is this guy talking about? Will the muslims hate us now? Oh, now, that’d be ashame.
The muslim community might get outraged and start rioting and issuing fatwas and what-not. That would be new and different!! Gee, let me go shake in the corner somewhere.
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October 1st, 2006 at 8:05 pm
This is so funny. I actually searched for this last week cause I heard a mention of it on the Glenn Beck show. Didn’t find it though. I just might have to order one for posterity.
October 1st, 2006 at 8:14 pm
I know what you mean Toni!! I just heard of it and I think it’s a hoot. I might have to help support this enterprising young Marine myself!!
October 1st, 2006 at 8:19 pm
Mohammed Bobblehead…
I was just searching for this last week. I heard about it on the Glenn Beck Show and wanted to find it.
Ewww. I bet they’re gonna be really mad now.
Blue Star Chronicles Blog Archive Bobblehead Mohammad
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October 1st, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Thanks for the link, and for standing up for free speech.
October 2nd, 2006 at 8:42 pm
Heck, They should make a bobblehead mexican dude waving a mexican flag behind the white house…..then all the odd balls will be equally represented.
October 2nd, 2006 at 9:18 pm
Thanks for coming by Kevin.
Steve, that’s a good idea - but I think there are still some odd balls out there
October 6th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
A joyful noise, a weepul and a bobblehead Mohammad…
What do these things have in common?
Plenty.
Woke up this morning with every expectation that I would find the black dog still firmly entrenched on my shoulder. Lack of use of my dominant hand has had me in the Deep Blue Funk to End All Deep Blue Fu…
October 9th, 2006 at 10:18 am
Well, I suppose the Muslums willl just have to get used to folks making fun of their religious figures. At lease, until they kill off all us “Western Sons of the Devil.”
We Christians have been tolerating such disrespect for our diety for centuries now. And we don’t strap bombs on impressionable young men and women and turn them into mass murderers, riot in the streets, torch national flags, behead helpless captives, and otherwise behave in uncivilized fashion just because someone markets a plastic Jesus for the dashboard.
October 10th, 2006 at 9:11 pm
I heard about this on WLW w/Gary Burbank and cracked up. I need one of these just to insult the Jihad SOB’s. We need to knock off the catering to the dimwits that believe in murder in the name of religion. Thanks, and thanks for your time given this country in the service. Been there U.S. Army during Nam.
GARY