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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/18/2011 8:27:14 AM   
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May I suggest you look post 13 as the article is five years old

True its an old story although perhaps due to my advancing years October 2006 seems just like yesterday! I think as a story it is still of some interest cause the issue of religious sensitivity and how foreign faiths interract in certain societies is just as big as ever post 9/11.

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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/18/2011 9:36:18 AM   
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Status: offline 		FR-  the concern that the cube shaped store is an "insult"  is pathetically whiny!

Some people feel this way over the flag,  and other shapes, emblems.

If they are so concerned let them buy the copyright to it!

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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/18/2011 9:38:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		Oftentimes Hunky any one who is offended can be seen as whiny..
its not the perogative of moozlems
which was the object of this post


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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/18/2011 9:57:54 AM   
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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/18/2011 10:00:50 AM   
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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/18/2011 10:39:31 AM   
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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/18/2011 10:40:33 AM   
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You need to realise that Islam has the right to be offended by any and all square objects, you just have a small closed western mind!

I understand they are mildly offend by shallow, almost square like rectangles too.   There was recently a "round table" meeting to consider whether ovals contained a square like influence because they weren't perfectly round . . . a Jihad against ovals is expected soon. 

 




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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/18/2011 3:34:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm amazed that any one is credulous enough to take this yarn seriously.

A very suspect site, openly pro-Zionist, claiming to be a 'translation service' but adding lots of editorial, with an apparent focus on stories that complement Israel's political agenda and direct links to Israeli intelligence quotes an unidentified "Islamist" site as the original source of this tale. It's recycled news - first published in 2006.

To me, it would be prudent to remain sceptical until that unidentified Islamist site is identified and the claim is verified. To assert it is true, on the basis of the evidence to date, is simply preposterous. Until the original source is verified, any reasonable person would surely file this tale under "dubious".

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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/18/2011 3:39:24 PM   
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The reason? Because the building resembles the Ka'ba in Mecca (pictured below), is called "Apple Mecca," (by whom?), is open 24 hours a day like the Ka'ba, and "contains bars selling alcoholic beverages."




Couple that with the five year old date... a total waste.



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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/18/2011 6:32:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		It is a slightly perplexing story. Did another quick google search to discover more and it seems there was real anger so the story in Memri is probably genuine but it was due to a misunderstanding partly caused by US cultural “insensitivity” by using references to Mecca! Calling of the store “Apple’s Mecca” appeared in numerous places during construction while the cube was covered by dark paneling. It drew some angry comments such as here http://gothamist.com/2006/04/07/the_cube_reveal.php from Muslims. A story by a Mark Morford in the San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/culture/detail?entry_id=4203 seemed to cause the stir. See the comments too. He emphasised the architectural aspects and made a joke about the iPod Bar which caused some Muslims to believe the building was serving drink. References to pink iPods served with vodka which probably got lost in translation! That’s the take on it by some guys on one of the main Mac forums anyhoo!

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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/18/2011 6:46:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		The story in MEMRI attributes the alleged threats to an "Islamist website". You aren't seriously suggesting that either the San Francisco Chronicle or the gothamist websites are Islamist websites are you?

It doesn't matter how much you want to believe this yarn to be true.This yarn has no credibility until the alleged Islamist website is identified.

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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/18/2011 6:56:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wow, no I wasn't. lol Merely that there was at least some anger in the Islamic community over a misunderstanding so it provides some substance to the claim Memri made. The building did look very like the structure in Mecca before construction was finished and with rumours of alcohol being served I can understand why Muslims would get annoyed.

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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/18/2011 7:52:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		Your signature ("I had lot's of luck but its all been bad") suggests that your judgement might not be everything it could be. Please stop introducing evidence to add weight to that interpretation.

BTW did I mention that I have a cousin who owns a bridge in New York that is up for sale?

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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/18/2011 8:15:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		I didn't think luck and good judgement are necessarily connected but don't want to fall out with anyone over what is a relatively minor story so we'll agree to differ on the topic and leave it at that.

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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/18/2011 9:38:10 PM   
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Other things that offends them... WFT!!!!!

http://www.islam-watch.org/Others/Things-That-Offend-Muslims.htm


What Fuck The?

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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/18/2011 9:44:11 PM   
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ORIGINAL: WantsOfTheFlesh

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
May I suggest you look post 13 as the article is five years old

True its an old story although perhaps due to my advancing years October 2006 seems just like yesterday! I think as a story it is still of some interest cause the issue of religious sensitivity and how foreign faiths interract in certain societies is just as big as ever post 9/11.


well, you were wrong. it just makes you look like an idiot posting blogs and stories 5 years old.

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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/19/2011 4:44:16 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
May I suggest you look post 13 as the article is five years old

True its an old story although perhaps due to my advancing years October 2006 seems just like yesterday! I think as a story it is still of some interest cause the issue of religious sensitivity and how foreign faiths interract in certain societies is just as big as ever post 9/11.


well, you were wrong. it just makes you look like an idiot posting blogs and stories 5 years old.

I don't care if it is five years old (or actually four and a half years old) or not because the same cultural difficulties are present today - just look at all the news coverage and threads on here about it. Like it or not that makes it relevant or at least still of interest to some but I didn't post the story lol. It was Kissheels!

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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/19/2011 5:37:46 AM   
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ORIGINAL: WantsOfTheFlesh

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ORIGINAL: WantsOfTheFlesh

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic
May I suggest you look post 13 as the article is five years old

True its an old story although perhaps due to my advancing years October 2006 seems just like yesterday! I think as a story it is still of some interest cause the issue of religious sensitivity and how foreign faiths interract in certain societies is just as big as ever post 9/11.


well, you were wrong. it just makes you look like an idiot posting blogs and stories 5 years old.

I don't care if it is five years old (or actually four and a half years old) or not because the same cultural difficulties are present today - just look at all the news coverage and threads on here about it. Like it or not that makes it relevant or at least still of interest to some but I didn't post the story lol. It was Kissheels!

Yes I did post it.. so what its 5 years old! Making a point that just about any and everything we do or build offends those people!!!!

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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/19/2011 6:31:52 AM   
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Look infidel . . .
You need to realise that Islam has the right to be offended by any and all square objects, you just have a small closed western mind!

I understand they are mildly offend by shallow, almost square like rectangles too.   There was recently a "round table" meeting to consider whether ovals contained a square like influence because they weren't perfectly round . . . a Jihad against ovals is expected soon. 

 





The Rubik's Cube must really piss them off.

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RE: Apple Store offends muslims?????? - 4/19/2011 6:37:23 AM   
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Yes I did post it.. so what its 5 years old! Making a point that just about any and everything we do or build offends those people!!!!


Considering they have Apple stores in muslim countries, this is a joke.

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