Here is an excellent compliation of "things that offend muslims" that I thought I'd pass along to my readers - I am sure that you can come up with many others to add. I think my New Year's Resolution will be to not only refuse to caveat my writings with politically correct panderings but also to do at least a few of the items on this list.
Things That Offend Muslims
01Jan, 2007
This list is a work in progress. I welcome suggestions. Anyone who has more items to add to the list, post them in the comments.
The intent of the list is to illustrate the futility of the multicultural approach to Islam. Sharia law demands submission not only from Muslims, but from non-Muslims as well. This makes respectful coexistence nearly impossible with Muslims in Infidel lands. The examples below serve as reminder that submitting to one complaint or another only emboldens Muslims to seek to further their ultimate goal of establishing sharia.
The West needs to come to grips with this fact and start standing up for our God-given rights of free speech, free expression and freedom of religion, lest we surrender those rights to a theocratic movement bent on removing our Constitutional freedoms that we hold dear. In this case, our tolerance will lead to intolerance.
Flags
The English Flag being flown in England, as well as St. George Pins, worn by Englishmen in England.
Austrian flag, Soccer Ball with Saudi Flag.
Buildings
The World Trade Center, The Pentagon, The Giant Buddhas, The new Apple store in Manhattan. The Beslan Memorial, Pool halls and coffee shops, Kaaba-Shaped Bar in NY.
The Trinity, Pope Benedict XVI. Pope John Paul II, Australian Prime Minister John Howard , Coptic Pope Shenouda III., Robert Spencer, The name "Crusaders" , The Cross, Christmas presents, Bibles, Lip synching videos, Craig Winn, Prayer, Valentine's Day, Christians who accidentally touch the Koran, Street Evangelists.
The existence of Israel, The reality of the holocaust, Holocaust Day (UK), Teaching of the Holocaust.
Hindus/Buddhist's
The Dalai Lama
Cartoons
The Danish Cartoons, Videos of Danes drawing Mohammed. Cartoons about Uday and Qusay's death. These photoshops, The Buddy Christ, Cambridge University cartoon, Pokemon, Opus.
Movies/TV/Theater/Radio
The Movie "The Passion of the Christ" The Italian Film, 'Il mercante di pietre' (The Stone Merchant) "24", Disney's "Aladdin", Vincent Gogh's "Submission", A French play by Voltaire, "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World" Rubber duck hostage video, Ohio CarAd, The Movie ,"300" PBS Documentary "Islam v Islamists" Jihad, the Musical.
Food
Burger King ice cream cones, Jewish cookies. pork, even when consumed by non-Muslims. Alcohol, Quebec day-care lunch menu, Hot-Cross Buns, Coca Cola, Easter Eggs, Ham Sandwiches accidentally served to Muslim prisoners, Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches served in Jail.
Music
Music in general, A rap CD with Quranic verses. An award winning Spanish song, A party honoring late rock star Freddy Mercury, Mozart, Gospel music in a church van.
Humor/Satire
Animals
Piggy banks The Chinese "Year of the Pig" Toy Pigs, Pig-shaped stress relievers, Piglet from Winnie the Pooh, The Three Little Pigs, Dogs, guide dogs.
Public Figures
Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem, and Zachariah Anani, "The 3 Ex-Terrorists." Daniel Pipes, Ayaan Hirsi-Ali, Wafa Sultan, MP Phil Woolas (UK), Virgil Goode, Jack Straw, Bloggers The US Congress
The passport photo of a 5 year old girl, Women who allow themselves to be raped, The Panty Jihad, Egyptian feminist Nawal al-Saadawi, The clitoris, Hugging a man in public, The breasts of female mannequins, female dolls, pin-ups on RAF jets, Unclothed Sex, Breast Feeding, Britney and Madonna, Male Gynaecologists, the word Women, refusing to wear the hijab.
Books/Publications and writers
Salmon Rushdie's 'Satanic Verses,' Rushdie's Knighthood, books of ex-Muslim Ibn Warraq, books by Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin, a book by an Egyptian feminist., French and German Newspapers, Canadian Flyers, Nobel Prize winning author, Naguib Mahfouz, Harry Potter, Martin Amis, Mark Steyn.
Art
Tate British Museum, Delta College, Harper College Photo Exhibit
Grooming
Barbers , eyebrow plucking for men, Hair Gel.
Clothing
Western-style trousers, Colored Underwear, Nike "flame" logo, Italian Soccer Team's Shirts, Iraqi Tennis Players Wearing Shorts.
Miscellaneous
Airport security, A Yemini man who refused to wake up for prayers, Mustafa Shag, Prison toilets, Indrek Wichman, Barbers , eyebrow plucking for men, Chess, Staring or looking, Nike "flame" logo, Polio Vaccine, a moment of silence to commemorate 9/11 in Brussels, Colored Underwear, Koran-Themed Toilet Seats, Exxon, LAPD, Bluetooth, Witchcraft, the term "War on Terror", Emergency Relief from the USN, Teddy Bear named Mohammed by Schoolchildren, Sweden, Homosexuals.
The author of this article has captured the real tick issues with the extremists Muslims. What is written here is the truth, a speck of the truth but not the whole truth.
This is as true as watching the evening news in your city and concluding that in the twenty minutes of news, that the people of the city murderers, rapists, arsonits, robbers, theives and looters.
The good news: The consumption of this news is mainly by the tabloid readers and those who like to gossip. The average Americans, like a average Christians, Muslims, Hindus or others know this is for the hype and does not have much grounding apply to the average, meaning the one's you run into work, bus, grocery store, movie theaters etc.
Mike Ghouse
World Muslim Congress
Posted by: Mike Ghouse | January 01, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Seems they can't stand anything in life... oh well.
Posted by: Kathy | January 03, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Great list! Here are some more off the top of my head:
Under women:
Nigerian Beauty Contest
Under authors:
Irshad Manji
Under Jews:
A Jew on the temple mount (Intifada II), blowing a Shaffer (horn) at the wailing wall (1929 Arab riots), trying to make Arabs illiterate (as mentioned in the Mickey Mouse Hamas show), using blood to make matza (Arab text-books)
Under Christians:
Leaving Islam for Christianity
Great start! I suggest you make this list formal, completely linked, and accessible for other sites (like the Terror count list at thereligionofpeace.com)
Posted by: Brian | January 03, 2008 at 12:06 PM
http://www.thingsoffensivetoislam.blogspot.com/
Posted by: ali | January 03, 2008 at 12:07 PM
Don't forget the Bamiyan Buddha's, another Buddha image in Swat, Pakistan, the image of Mohammed in a church in Bologna,Italy, any nude statue, and most figurative art, especially when it's of Buddha.
Posted by: Jim | January 03, 2008 at 02:12 PM
Great list. Just one thing: The movie submission is from "Theo van Gogh and Hirsi Ali"
Posted by: Syla | January 03, 2008 at 03:47 PM
Funny how Muslims always offer a vague denial in the face of reality. "It's only a half truth", "it's more complex". Everything to make the waters murkier and hide any responsibility or solution.
Posted by: Jay | January 03, 2008 at 04:46 PM
Atrocities have been committed in the name of many religions like Christianity for instance. The difference is that people had to twist and distort Scripture in order to use it for violence while muslims have to twist and distort their Scriptures to bring peace. Not many are volunteering for that particular task. Too busy being offended and imposing their beliefs abroad while limiting or banning minority faiths at home.
Posted by: Jay | January 03, 2008 at 04:59 PM
Here's two more things they don't like:
You and me...
Posted by: Al | January 04, 2008 at 02:18 AM
Add me to that list, but most importantly, add Inter Milan of Italian's Serie A, because they had audacity to use a big red cross for their uniform - since its part of the symbol of Milan.
Might as well throw in the city.
Also Dante (who threw Muhammad into hell), the Greeks (they never liked the nudity), the Romans (infidels!), and of course, the indomitable Oriana Fallaci.
P.S. Charles Martel (my favorite).
Posted by: Andrew | January 04, 2008 at 04:57 AM
Open Letter To Offended muslims
If you are offended by your host country, please leave.
If you are offended by Free Speech, please leave.
If you are offended by anything that you cannot comprehend, please leave.
If you are offended by the fact that I believe that you are ingrate parasites,
please leave.
If you are offended by the fact that I will fight you muslim ingrates tooth, claw and spirit, please leave.
If this offends you, please leave.
Nuff said.
Posted by: DILIGAF | January 04, 2008 at 05:14 AM
Thanks for some great comments!! I will look into making this a permanent blog feature.
Regards
TheO
Posted by: TheOPINIONATOR | January 04, 2008 at 09:32 AM
What the Muslims really hate most of all is the truth, especially when we say that Islam is the religion of hatred, ruin, death and destruction, and when we say that Muhammad was a child molester and a lecherous pedophile.
Posted by: Philip Saenz | January 04, 2008 at 10:38 AM
Muslims were also offended because Tony Blair converted to the Catholic Church and not to Islam. Isn't that stupid? Who the hell wants to convert to Islam and its 73 contradictory sects? Who the hell wants to convert to the religion of violence, that is, Islam? The Muslim Wahabbis, the Muslim Sunnis, the Muslim Shiites, the Muslim Kurds, and many of the other Muslim sects are murdering each other every day. So let the Muslims be offended because sensible people don't want to become part of Islam, the religion of hatred, ruin, death and destruction.
Posted by: Philip Saenz | January 04, 2008 at 10:51 AM
PERHAPS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EASIER TO HAVE A LIST OF THE THINGS THAT DON'T OFFEND MUSLIMS?????
Posted by: TheOPINIONATOR | January 05, 2008 at 01:15 PM
PERHAPS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EASIER TO HAVE A LIST OF THE THINGS THAT DON'T OFFEND MUSLIMS?????
Posted by: TheOPINIONATOR | January 05, 2008 at 01:15 PM
Laughter is the best medicine. Let's laugh a lot at Muslims and their crazy 7th century ideas.
Posted by: chuck | January 06, 2008 at 09:13 PM
09/01/08
"The author of this article has captured the real tick issues with the extremists Muslims. What is written here is the truth, a speck of the truth but not the whole truth." Mike Ghouse says.
Thiagan says: I define a moderate muslim as the one who:
> who accepts unhesitatingly that all religions are equal
> who believes and practises gender equality
> who conforms to local and host country's laws, eg.one child norm and family planning in India
> who eschews all kinds of world wide Islamic domination and universal imposition of shariaa
No muslim can accept the above and hence Islam can not a component of flourishing plural society.
Posted by: Thigan | January 09, 2008 at 05:10 AM
Good work.
strangely enough,food from
christian is "haram" but
christian's money is "halal
http://aziztayyab.info
Posted by: Aziz Tayyab | January 09, 2008 at 05:05 PM
Many are offended right now because Wikipedia has pictures of Mo. Big petition to get Wikipedia to censor their website.
Posted by: Rebecca | January 09, 2008 at 06:44 PM
RIGHT ON, TheO!
Posted by: DILIGAF | January 14, 2008 at 04:06 AM
Last year i went bowling with friends, it was during one of the hot summer days so i wore a short sleave, low cut top like most of my friends. Halfway through our game a muslim family turned up to use the opposite bowling lane and i was asked to put something over my top that covered up my "flesh". I declined and carried on with my game and the family simply left....never mind....came 3rd in the bowling though!
Posted by: Lucy Guest | June 28, 2008 at 09:44 PM
Very good. Will post on my site. Thanks,
Bob
Posted by: Bob | June 29, 2008 at 09:42 PM
WELL JUST DROPPED IN TO SEE THE PATHETIC COMMENTS LEFT BY PATHETIC PEOPLE THAT HAVE NO LIVES BUT TO PUT DOWN A RELIGION THEY HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT. LET ME SAY SUMTHING TO YOU ALL AND LET ME MAKE SURE THAT IT STICKS IN YOUR HEADS ONCE AND FOR ALL:WE HAVE FLAGS OURSELVES SO YOUR FLAGS WONT OFFEND US,WE GO TO COFFEE SHOPS FOR A CUP OF COFFEE SO PLEASE TELL ME WHY WOULD THAT OFFEND US? WE WATCH CARTOONS AS WELL, WE WATCH CARTOONS THAT HAVE PIGS IN IT WE JUST DONT EAT PIG, WE LOOK AT THE CLOTHES ON THE MANNEQUIN NOT THE MANNEQUIN ITSELF NICE TO KNOW THAT ALL YOU PEOPLE LOOK AT MANNEQUINN FOR SELF SATISFACTION, WOMEN NEVER WANT TO BE RAPED. MEN JUST RAPE THEM IF THE WOMEN ALLOWED THEM THEN IT WOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED RAPE SO NEXT TIME CHECK UR FACTS, LITTLE MUSLIM GIRLS OWN DOLLS,MUSLIM KIDS READ HARRY POTTER, WE USE HAIR GEL, WE PLAY CHESS AND WE DONT HATE HOMOSEXULAS WE JUST DONT PRACTISE HOMOSEXUALITY. I JUST CAN GO ON ALL DAY BY THE WAY NEXT TIME YOU USE PATHETIC THINGS TO PUT UP HERE THEN DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE TALKING!
Posted by: MUSLIM LOUD AND PROUD | July 30, 2008 at 04:52 AM
WELL JUST DROPPED IN TO SEE THE PATHETIC COMMENTS LEFT BY PATHETIC PEOPLE THAT HAVE NO LIVES BUT TO PUT DOWN A RELIGION THEY HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT. LET ME SAY SUMTHING TO YOU ALL AND LET ME MAKE SURE THAT IT STICKS IN YOUR HEADS ONCE AND FOR ALL:WE HAVE FLAGS OURSELVES SO YOUR FLAGS WONT OFFEND US,WE GO TO COFFEE SHOPS FOR A CUP OF COFFEE SO PLEASE TELL ME WHY WOULD THAT OFFEND US? WE WATCH CARTOONS AS WELL, WE WATCH CARTOONS THAT HAVE PIGS IN IT WE JUST DONT EAT PIG, WE LOOK AT THE CLOTHES ON THE MANNEQUIN NOT THE MANNEQUIN ITSELF NICE TO KNOW THAT ALL YOU PEOPLE LOOK AT MANNEQUINN FOR SELF SATISFACTION, WOMEN NEVER WANT TO BE RAPED. MEN JUST RAPE THEM IF THE WOMEN ALLOWED THEM THEN IT WOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED RAPE SO NEXT TIME CHECK UR FACTS, LITTLE MUSLIM GIRLS OWN DOLLS,MUSLIM KIDS READ HARRY POTTER, WE USE HAIR GEL, WE PLAY CHESS AND WE DONT HATE HOMOSEXULAS WE JUST DONT PRACTISE HOMOSEXUALITY. I JUST CAN GO ON ALL DAY BY THE WAY NEXT TIME YOU USE PATHETIC THINGS TO PUT UP HERE THEN DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE TALKING!
Posted by: MUSLIM LOUD AND PROUD | July 30, 2008 at 04:54 AM