Poll

"We are declaring a jihad on the automotive market!"

Funny50%50% - 24
Disrespectful (AKA Not Funny)29%29% - 14
Both10%10% - 5
I Love You Wesker10%10% - 5
Total: 48
AlbertWesker[RE]
Not Human Anymore
+144|7036|Seattle, WA
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/ … 1VO0.shtml
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=2484055
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml … ss/topNews
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060924/dealersh … .html?.v=3

The Article wrote:

A car dealership's planned radio advertisement that declared "a jihad on the automotive market" has drawn sharp criticism for its content but will not be changed, the business said Saturday.

Several stations rejected the Dennis Mitsubishi spot, which says sales representatives wearing "burqas" _ head-to-toe traditional dress for Islamic women will sell vehicles that can "comfortably seat 12 jihadists in the back."

"Our prices are lower than the evildoers' every day. Just ask the pope!" the ad says. "Friday is fatwa Friday, with free rubber swords for the kiddies." A fatwa is a religious edict.
So what do you think guys? Is It funny, or disrespectful, or both???

Personally I think it is quite funny, but people, especially muslims, with their track record with the pope's latest comments, will probably overreact....you know whats funny...I'm christian and when I hear SOME jokes about christians, it makes me laugh, otherwise the other ones are just plain out disgusting and distasteful.  Depending on the seriousness of a fatwa, I think that would probably be uncalled for.  Otherwise who cares, its a joke, lighten up. 

Last edited by AlbertWesker[RE] (2006-09-25 20:33:46)

Miller
IT'S MILLER TIME!
+271|7148|United States of America
Wow just reading what you quoted is funny, time to read the rest!
AlbertWesker[RE]
Not Human Anymore
+144|7036|Seattle, WA

Miller wrote:

Wow just reading what you quoted is funny, time to read the rest!
BTT Cmon guys no one is reading this one, its too good to pass up.
JimmyBotswana
Member
+82|6978|Montreal
funny. Muslims over react to everything.
AlbertWesker[RE]
Not Human Anymore
+144|7036|Seattle, WA

JimmyBotswana wrote:

funny. Muslims over react to everything.
Wow, do we actually.......agree???
PRiMACORD
Member
+190|7017|Home of the Escalade Herds
You forgot stupid in the poll
JimmyBotswana
Member
+82|6978|Montreal

AlbertWesker[RE] wrote:

JimmyBotswana wrote:

funny. Muslims over react to everything.
Wow, do we actually.......agree???
I know. Spooky.
kr@cker
Bringin' Sexy Back!
+581|6942|Southeastern USA
hilarious, if I could fit in a mitsubishi I'd get one from them

I like how they're refusing to change their ad, odd how "the church lady" and the monty python catholic skits are just good fun, but this is considered controversial and offensive
.:XDR:.PureFodder
Member
+105|7222
I think it's funny enough. If you find it offensive they you won't buy a car off them but they must figure they won't be doing too much harm to their sales by running the ads.

It reminds me of a story, I think from the US, about a gym who put up a billboard ad saying "The aliens are coming and they'll eat the fat ones first!"
IG-Calibre
comhalta
+226|7135|Tír Eoghan, Tuaisceart Éireann
kinda reminds me of this!!

kr@cker
Bringin' Sexy Back!
+581|6942|Southeastern USA
one of my favorite ads, could never remember the name of the car (we don't get it here)
warhead0
Member
+4|6817|Charters Towers, QLD, AUS
whats a jihad?
twiistaaa
Member
+87|7061|mexico

warhead0 wrote:

whats a jihad?
go back to the year 2000
PRiMACORD
Member
+190|7017|Home of the Escalade Herds

IG-Calibre wrote:

kinda reminds me of this!!

Now thats a funny ad
mafia996630
© 2009 Jeff Minard
+319|7156|d

warhead0 wrote:

whats a jihad?
# s an Arabic word that means "striving in the way of God." This striving can take a number of forms, including the daily inner struggle to be a better person. However, jihad is often used to refer to an armed struggle fought in defense of Islam.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/ … ssary.html

# Striving, effort, struggle; striving spiritually or physically against evil; colloquial religious war. >> more
www.com.washington.edu/Program/news/dig … ssary.html

# Centuries-old Arabic term translated literally as "holy war" or "endeavor." In recent years, Muslim fighters, especially in the Arab-Israeli conflict, have used the term almost solely to mean "holy war," often waged through terrorist attacks on civilians. PLO chairman Yasir Arafat caused a stir when he called for a "jihad to liberate Jerusalem," even after renouncing the use of violence against Israel. ...
www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp

# The essential meaning of jihad is the spiritual, psychological and physical effort exerted by Muslims to be closer to God and thus achieve a just and harmonious society. Jihad literally means "striving" or "struggle" and is shorthand for Jihad fi Sabeel Allah (struggle for God's cause).
www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0, … 12,00.html

# (literally "struggle" or "striving"). Although this word is often translated as "holy war," it has a broader meaning than warfare on the battlefield. Any act of striving to please Allah may be described as jihad.
www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/humanrelations/wom … ssary.html

# sometimes called the "sixth pillar of Islam," this word has two meanings: 1. The "greater jihad" is "striving" of any kind, particularly moral; the struggle to be a better person, a better Muslim, the struggle against drugs, against immorality, against infidelity, etc. 2. Holy war in agreement with the Shari'ah: only undertaken when the faith is threatened and at the approval of a religious authority such as a mullah, though this is a difficult distinction (the "lesser jihad").
faculty.juniata.edu/tuten/islamic/glossary.html

# Personal individual struggle against evil in the way of Allah. It can also be collective defense of the Muslim community.
re-xs.ucsm.ac.uk/gcsere/glossaries/islamglos.html

# Arabic for "Holy war", that is, a war based on the clash of ideologies.
www.jafi.org.il/education/hasbara/glossary.html

# This is an Arabic word meaning exertion, struggle, or strife. In Islam, jihad is the struggle for the faith. It can manifest on the outer, as holy war, or on the inner, as the spiritual process. The latter is known as the Great Jihad. Note that the Arabic word ISLAM means submission or surrender to the Will of God, which is the very essence, the means and the end, of every True path or tradition. ...
www.zoofence.com/define04.html

# A holy war. Muhammad and his followers perpetrated raids against their enemies, these raids were called Jihad in the Quran which meant ``striving in the way of the Lord.'' definition: Chapter 8.
www.2ad.com/~john/history/unit2_defs/

# The religious struggle or war against nonbelievers in Islam.
www.careerjournaleurope.com/columnists/ … ssary.html

# Islamic holy war. (p. 288)
occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/stearns_awl/medialib/glossary/gloss_J.html

# (or Yihad) = Holy War, in the sense of both a personal war against the own vices and a fight against pagans or enemies of Islam.
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~histweb/medhist/p … ssary.html

# Islamic holy war or mission not necessarily violent.
www.12-12-12.org/bookappi.htm

# From the verb jahada, to struggle. Effort or striving in God's path. When it refers to the individual effort to conquer himself or passions, it is called greater jihad. When it refers to the communal effort at a defensive war against the enemies of Islam, then it is called lesser jihad. A person who wages jihad is called a mujahid.
www.geocities.com/tatarkirim/islglos.html

# Muslim holy war; a Muslim crusade against unbelievers.
www.li.suu.edu/library/humtxt/glossary/glossary.htm

# a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
# a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

# "Jihad" (ǧihād جهاد) is an Arabic word which comes from the Arabic root word "jahada", which means "exerting utmost effort" or "to strive". The word connotes a wide range of meanings, from an inward spiritual struggle to attain perfect faith, to holy war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad

# Jihad is an EP by American nu metal band Otep, released in 2001 (see 2001 in music).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad_(EP)



WOOOOT, i didnt know wot else to talk about..
jonsimon
Member
+224|6888
lol thats a hilarious marketing strategy. Sure, its probably offensive to somebody, but its still damn funny.
kr@cker
Bringin' Sexy Back!
+581|6942|Southeastern USA
"sonic jihad" is a nasty hot album by a band called "snake river conspiracy", think "prodigy" only with a sinful sexy bettie page on vocals
lowing
Banned
+1,662|7044|USA
I love it, mission accomplished.........free publicity


I also love the islamic reaction, "disrespectful", as if there is anything respectful and tolerent about Islam.

It is great to know the dealship is sticking by its right run the ad regardless of what the offended muslims think. So naturally the "peace loving" muslims will have to blow it up.
joker3327
=IBF2=
+305|6991|Cheshire. UK
The guy that thought that up must have a huge pair of balls...good on him....bloody funny...lol  give em a bit of food for thought too..
ghettoperson
Member
+1,943|7042

I do love un-PC advertising.

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