"Apple angers Muslims" claims refuted

• nightzip

  12 Oct 06, 18:24

  "Apple angers Muslims" claims refuted
  
  Trouble cubed
  
  By Nick Farrell: Thursday 12 October 2006, 07:48
  
  THE PRESS seems to have invented a story that fanatical Muslims are fuming at an Apple building project which looks a bit like Islam's holiest shrine.
  The centre of the issue is a project which has been dubbed a "Mecca Project" by a couple of bogs, which are mostly feeding off each other.
  
  Their comments were reported by the Middle East Media Research outfit which monitors bogs and posts summaries. This summery was reported "silly angry Muslims p*ssed off at Apple" by the more yellowish press, when in fact it was a storm in a teacup.
  
  By the time the press got to it, the story had mutated into a tale that Apple was building a cube that resembles the Ka'ba, in Mecca. It was going to be open 24 hours a day and serve booze. Some boggers claimed that this was a slap in the face to Islam.
  
  The building in question is being constructed by Apple in New York City, on Fifth Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets in Manhattan. It is cube shaped, but the reason it was covered in black was to hide it until it was opened. It is transparent glass with an Apple logo in the middle and looks as much like the Ka'ba as the Pompidou Centre looks like the Great Pyramid.
  
  We have heard reports of Apple fans swirling around the cube hoping to touch the sacred symbol in the middle, but that is nothing to do with Islam and is entirely a different sort of creed.
  
  http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD131506
  
  
• Ito_^

  12 Oct 06, 18:48

  i bet some of those bloggers still believe in it.
• missqi

  12 Oct 06, 18:49

  
• ndmmxiaomayi

  12 Oct 06, 18:52

  Story mutated le lah....
• the Bear

  12 Oct 06, 18:55

  *&^$# lah..
  
  if i say i'm going to go take a dump, some asswipe out there will say that i'm discriminating against them and then rant against me..
  
  to these barely-sentient semi-literates, i say: GET A LIFE!
• sand king

  12 Oct 06, 18:56

  what a joke!
• BaByBoY

  12 Oct 06, 18:57

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  *&^$# lah..
  
  if i say i'm going to go take a dump, some asswipe out there will say that i'm discriminating against them and then rant against me..
  
  to these barely-sentient semi-literates, i say: GET A LIFE!

  x2
  
  will there be a day i`ll get sued by the muslims that my bowels are not halal?
• sgboy2004

  12 Oct 06, 18:57

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  *&^$# lah..
  
  if i say i'm going to go take a dump, some asswipe out there will say that i'm discriminating against them and then rant against me..
  
  to these barely-sentient semi-literates, i say: GET A LIFE!

  get a life by surfing sgf during official working hours and claim it is part of the job right? hahahahhaa
• sand king

  12 Oct 06, 19:01

  Originally posted by BaByBoY:

  x2
  
  will there be a day i`ll get sued by the muslims that my bowels are not halal?

  LOL what the f uck they want to do with your bowels? eat it? HAHAHAHAHA!!!
• xel

  12 Oct 06, 19:02

  
• MohamedF

  12 Oct 06, 19:03

  WTF!!!
• sand king

  12 Oct 06, 19:06

  Originally posted by MohamedF:

  WTF!!!

  i hope you are not angry at apple.
• MohamedF

  12 Oct 06, 19:09

  Originally posted by sand king:

  i hope you are not angry at apple.

  The real picture suppose to look like this...
  
  
  
  Which idiot say it looks like Ka'abah?