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PacHead
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Oct 10, 2006, 06:09 PM
 
Screw these people.

Anybody who enters this thread and even remotely agrees with these fascists should be banned from ever owning an Apple computer for life.

On October 10, 2006, an Islamic website posted a message alerting Muslims to what it claims is a new insult to Islam. According to the message, the cube-shaped building which is being constructed in New York City, on Fifth Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets in midtown Manhattan, is clearly meant to provoke Muslims. The fact that the building resembles the Ka’ba, is called “Apple Mecca,” is intended to be open 24 hours a day like the Ka’ba, and moreover, contains bars selling alcoholic beverages, constitutes a blatant insult to Islam. The message urges Muslims to spread this alert, in hope that “Muslims will be able to stop the project.”



http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfga...&entry_id=4203

http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD131506
     
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Oct 10, 2006, 06:48 PM
 
This forum gets more pathetic every day.
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Oct 10, 2006, 06:48 PM
 
Selling alcohol inside the Apple Store ?
What do they have ? Apple beer ?

Gosh, I gotta get to NY !

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Oct 10, 2006, 06:49 PM
 
Hard apple cider!
Political grandstanding. Does it work?
     
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Oct 10, 2006, 06:50 PM
 
Originally Posted by PacHead
Screw these people.
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Oct 10, 2006, 06:50 PM
 
Originally Posted by Person Man
POLITICAL LOUNGE!
Come on, this is clearly satire, not politics.

-t
     
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Oct 10, 2006, 06:52 PM
 
And so we have a bunch of immature, paranoid folks crying insult where none could possibly be intended. This is news... why?
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Oct 10, 2006, 06:57 PM
 
It is very much akin to a holy site: open 24 hours.

I usually go once a week to worship Apple products and leave feeling somehow refreshed.

Its black cothed clergy are always friendly, always willing to listen to me bare my soul and share their wisdom.

Should my faith be challenged (and my logic board fail), it is there that I turn first.

Sometimes I even make a donation and am rewarded not in the afterlife, but here on earth (heavenly iPod nano maybe?).
     
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Oct 10, 2006, 06:58 PM
 
Originally Posted by what_the_heck
Come on, this is clearly satire, not politics.

-t
Source?

Considering it came from PacHead and that he's been banned from the Poli Lounge several times, I have a hard time believing that this one was made up... unless the "serves alcoholic beverages" thing is what makes it satire.
     
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Oct 10, 2006, 07:00 PM
 
[FONT="Book Antiqua"]Mohammedanism is a Religion of Peace.[/FONT]
     
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Oct 10, 2006, 07:06 PM
 
Originally Posted by Millennium
This is news... why?
I'm sorry that you don't feel that this is newsworthy. It's not like anybody has ever gotten killed for insulting a certain belief system.
     
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Oct 10, 2006, 07:09 PM
 
Originally Posted by Person Man
POLITICAL LOUNGE!
Yeah, this thread should clearly be hidden away. We wouldn't want too many Apple users to know about this now would we ?
     
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Oct 10, 2006, 07:14 PM
 
Originally Posted by what_the_heck
Come on, this is clearly satire, not politics.

-t
This thread is going to turn political. In fact, it already has. See Kerrigan's post, above. I still maintain that this thread belongs in the Political Lounge.
     
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Oct 10, 2006, 07:41 PM
 
Originally Posted by Kerrigan
[FONT="Book Antiqua"]Mohammedanism is a Religion of Peace.[/FONT]
I like the size of your font, big boy.
     
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Oct 10, 2006, 07:45 PM
 
Is that a Book Antiqua in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
     
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Oct 10, 2006, 08:10 PM
 
Banned from the PL, PacHead?
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Oct 10, 2006, 08:49 PM
 
no, seriously, alcohol? i'm going to be in the city with the better part of friday to kill...
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Oct 10, 2006, 08:52 PM
 
well whatever, the store is beautiful.

http://crichton-official.com/fear/
     
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Oct 10, 2006, 09:02 PM
 
since when did someone's blog become a credible news source?

If its true the best thing to be done is too ignore them. I doubt anyone would take this seriously.
     
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Oct 10, 2006, 09:19 PM
 
imagine chucking a brick at thing, the noise would be beautiful
     
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Oct 10, 2006, 10:28 PM
 
God you can find enough connections if you look hard enough.

Those people who look through the bible using letters aligned diagonally, vertically, etc., to phrophesize events after they happen -- they could probably fins one for the 5th avenue Apple store.
     
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Oct 10, 2006, 10:56 PM
 
Neither of the 2 articles has a link to such a website. I am calling "fabrication by lame blogger".