And now this:
Prominent Muslim religious heads have expressed anger and dismay on the information of a US dog being named ‘Khan.’ Maulana Syed Athar Ali said that it is a known fact that Muslims detest pigs and dogs.
“To name a dog a Muslim name by US security agencies is to deliberately incite the Muslim community. We would be meeting soon and devise a strategy to protest and seek apology from the US,” said Maulana Athar Ali.
Yes, of course. It was a deliberate act of provocation. And just how angry are they? This angry.
Hey, it’s a religion of peace. Or so they say.
It’s a good thing that Gene Roddenberry and Ricardo Montalban are already dead…
In my head, all I can see are Indian Muslims in Mumbai clenching their fists and screaming “Khaaaan!!!” into the sky…
Over at Foreign Policy magazine, the joke was “Yes We Khan!”
I don’t see the big deal — they have free speech in India too, and this looks like a peaceful expression of free speech, nothing like the threats of violence over the cartoons, and that’s not surprising given that entirely different people are involved.
I didn’t know good old Genghis was a Muslim…
MPM, that’s actually discussed in the comments of the article Rand linked to.
Everyone say it now — KHAAAN!!!
“KHAAAAAN” is one of the more memorable lines from ST2. Less remembered is the line, “Klingon, son, you killed my bastard!” from ST3.
Yeh, that’s always a good one to riff on:
Klingon bastard killed my German Shepherd!
Klingon bastard made me sleep in the wet spot!
etc…
“it is a known fact that Muslims detest pigs and dogs”
and
“it is a known fact that most people detest stupid protests”
oops, standoff!
You know, we could be training swine as well as canine. They have quite a good sense of smell. In honor of Islam we should then name them all mohammad. Surely HAM wouldn’t make them MO.MAD?
It is a known fact that I detest people who behave like morons.
aaaahhh… one more religion of peace and tolerance! I don’t care about any religion and extreme ones like islam really piss me off. Bastards tried hard to kill me in the 60’s and 70’s but so did some christians. Please, oh, please give me a sight picture!
What about James Caan? (Either the actor, or the Paki businessman)?
Except that Khan is NOT a Muslim origin name. It is from the Mongolian empire that destroyed 95% of the Muslim world in the 1250’s.
How to make a muslim fundamentalists’ head explode:
Sane Person: “So, you guys don’t like dogs, eh?”
Fundamentalist Whackjob: The Prophet, PBUH, says they’re unclean.
SP: Oh, so that prophet made something unclean?
Whackjob: What? No, wait…..
SP: Seems like your prophet isn’t too good at his job
Whackjob: The Prophet (PBUH) is perfect!
SP: Well, not so perfect, if he made unclean animals like jobs
Whackjob: The Prophet is all knowing – you are an infidel. I kill you!
SP: Pulls Glock G21 (.45ACP) Say what?
Whackjob: Just kidding…(puts big knife away)
SP: So, whats the story on pigs?
Whackjob – pulls knife.
SP: Whoa, Sparky (Pulls Glock again). You need to chill – here, have a beer and some pork rinds…..
As explained in the comments of the article, Khan is a common muslim name in India. Why? Zahir ud-din Muhammad Babur, the founder of the Mughal empire which eventually conquered India, was a decendent of Genghis Khan. (I don’t know the details beyond that, but I take it that the name stayed in the culture.)
Only 95%? Damn!
I liked the theory that the German Shepherd’s name was misspelled, and that it was actually given a good German (Jewish) name: Kahn.
Are they aware there is a meat, including pork products company called Khan’s?
Really, it’s not like they’re not protesting every-damn-thing about our country and common culture anyhow…
F ’em
They aren’t all insane. It’s unfortunate, but 95% of the Muslims give the rest a bad name.
You realize of course, if you go LOOKING to be offended, you’ll probably FIND something to be offensive, within your chosen set of parameters. Fundamentalist Muslims seem to be in the ‘offense seeking’ business.
Although the outcome is obviously much different, I’ve known self righteous, fundamentalist Christians who spent half their time BEING offended, and the other half, seemingly, LOOKING for the next offense. And before anyone thinks I’m being harsh, or that I’m calling them out, I say that from INSIDE the group I named. I am a Christian, minus the self righteous part.
Thinking Christians know better than to be ‘self’ anything!!
And I too thought about Montalban and Shatner when I saw that name. But in all honesty I ask you, is there not ONE person involoved who thought,
“…well, we’ve got a couple hundred MWD’s…..just maybe, we can send dogs named things like Duke, Sally, Buffalo, Laddie, Brownie, Blackie and Moose. We’ll leave KHAN home when we go to a country where the term KHAN refers to their revered rulers and leaders of old!!”
C’mon, I thought this was PRECISELY what the State Department and the Pentagon Protocol Offices were SUPPOSED to do, diffuse misunderstandings BEFORE they happened. I’ll guarantee you that Obama would never go to San Francisco with a male MWD named ‘Nancy Boy’, now would he?
This kind of garbage from the so called “Religion of Peace” gives me a very strong urge to go to my local humane society, adopt a dog, and name it Mohammed. The cheaper thing to do might be to post some pictures of a large, mangy dog on the telephone poles and say that my dog Mohammed is lost. Prefers to eat hot dogs and bacon.
Might be fun to stir up the followers of the Religion of Pieces…
Don,
the best jabs are always the simplest, aren’t they. But the flyers need to be posted near a mosque / terror training school AND near a university. That way you get the double shot, liberals and screaming extremists.
Wait, that’s redundant.
(headed out for more printer paper, back l8er)
Oh Bob, they’re going to protest a dogs name. Don’t excuse this kind of BS. Sure they’re free to do it and we’re free to call them the serial victims they are.
As an aside, if dogs are “unclean”, where does that put people? Given that Mohammad crudely insults one of mankind’s noblest allies, that alone casts doubt on everything else he’s written as well.
Being offended is a strategy that works for them. Concession is a strategy that doesn’t work for the rest of us and we need to stop it now and forever. Bennett had the right answer.
Are y’all sure this isn’t like the $200 million a day, 34 ship stuff that showed up in the Indian press?
I will now call my BLT sammiches, MLT’s. Mohammed letuce and tomato. just to pizz off muslims who are easily pizzed off.
C’mon, douglas. Everyone knows that an MLT is a Mutton, Lettuce, and Tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean, and the tomato is ripe…
they’re so perky, I love that!
Columbo has been reading stories to John B again. Yeah, it’s a great movie.