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Remember in 90s hothead Muslim clerics made death threats vs. Japanese company saying its tire treads blasphemed Islam?

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Asked By: conceptualclarity 51-55, M  7 months ago

I remember it. It was a crisis like Salman Rushdie and "The Innocence of Muslims". All because paranoid Muslims discerned blasphemy on the treads of tires exported by a Japanese company. I recall that the company had to apologize profusely and promise to change its tire treads.

It's been quite a while. I found this discussion of it. http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=46275

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    underconstruction - 41-45 years old - female

    Posted by underconstruction Oct 8th, 2012 at 10:52AM

    Do you remember the US pastor who attracted worldwide condemnation for his threat to burn copies of the Koran ??

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  1. conceptualclarity - 51-55 years old - male

    Reply by conceptualclarity Oct 8th, 2012 at 10:22PM

    Your point is not apt. It reflects worse on Muslims than on that pastor. If somebody threatened to burn a copy of the scriptures of any religion other than Islam it would not cause a crisis of any sort.

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  2. underconstruction - 41-45 years old - female

    Reply by underconstruction Oct 8th, 2012 at 10:24PM

    ....and here we go. Of course it is not apt for you because you only want to see things one way. Neither concept, nor clarity applies to you.

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  1. lickitysplit - 61-65 years old - male

    Posted by lickitysplit Oct 9th, 2012 at 9:39PM

    I believe that the salient point in this discussion is that someone who is looking for insults is bound to find them. Its a tired old story -- sorry, I couldn't resist.

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  2. puck61 - 51-55 years old - male

    Posted by puck61 Oct 9th, 2012 at 8:24AM

    I don't understand why the left insists on defending this unreasonable behavior. These are the most extreme conservatives in the world and pretty much represent everything that the left claims to hold in contempt. Blasphemy laws will be ridiculous because then they will want to call everything blasphemy I'm so sick of it..This comparison of radical Islam with radical Christianity is such a tremendous stretch, it's laughable.

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  3. thequeenofeverything - female

    Reply by thequeenofeverything Oct 9th, 2012 at 8:50AM

    radicalism of any sort is unacceptable.

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  4. puck61 - 51-55 years old - male

    Reply by puck61 Oct 9th, 2012 at 8:54AM

    agreed, but, I wouldn't say that radical Christianity is a threat to world peace.

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  5. BamPow - 41-45 years old - male

    Posted by BamPow Oct 8th, 2012 at 10:59AM

    Radicals are not reasonable. This applies to radicals of any cause or religion. This is just anecdotal evidence regarding Muslims. I could post articles of radical Christians who have firebombed clinics and murdered doctors over abortion, and it would just prove that same thing: radicals are radical.

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  6. conceptualclarity - 51-55 years old - male

    Reply by conceptualclarity Oct 9th, 2012 at 12:51AM

    The people you are referring to in regard to abortion could all fit in somebody's living room. It is not comparable to the ranks of violent Islamists.

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  7. thequeenofeverything - female

    Reply by thequeenofeverything Oct 9th, 2012 at 8:49AM

    You, sir, deserve a medal.

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