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Bobblehead Muhammed - Just in time for the Holidays! htDave

NY 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.

They can be had here but order early: "**Due to current demand, please allow between 2-4 weeks for delivery.**

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.

But Islamic experts are not amused, saying the bobbleheads could anger Muslims, whose religion strictly prohibits depictions of the prophet.

"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."

Oh puhleeze. Enough already.

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. 

Me too.

BTW: Denmark excports soaring. Ha!

Comments

[clyde]

I need one of these bobbleheads. And it's great that it's JUST in time for the Christmas holidays. Wow, the perfect Christmas gift!

[DoctorDentons]

I ordered one yesterday...will be waiting for the comments.

[Richard Davis]

Marine Ames should start a whole line of Jihad Bobblehead dolls.

- make sure to include the "Infidel Bobblehead" - has no head, of course.

[lowandslow]

A little OT,
Fjordman has a new series of essays (four parts, he told me it's more like a small book) on Eurabia.
The Eurabia Code, Part I

[Abu Daboo Doo al Bedrocki]

I find it troubling that the very fair-minded (cough)article in the Guardian made this point about the 'cartoon controversy':

"They admitted, however, that the row has had its positive side. Danes have been forced to take an interest in Muslims - while Muslims have taken a greater interest in themselves."

It seems to say that these folks are extremely self-centered. My understanding is that they feel any non-Muslim has no value in life (except as a rape victim or a slave). The tenet of Christianity and Judaism is the value of all individuals and to treat each person the way we would like to be treated.

[Thomas Carney]

If the late Yasser Arafat can claim that Jesus Christ was the first Palestinian fedayin (it's documented...he said it just before he met with the late Pope John Paul II), if Muslims can burn the American flag and the Israeli flag, if Muslims can burn effigies of Pope Benedict XVI and George W. Bush, if Muslims can slime other people, then this former Marine has the freedom to make those bobbleheads as guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.

TAKE THAT, YOU DAMNED POLITICAL THOUGHT POLICE!!!