Now 'Mohammed Bomber' T-Shirts!

[Divinus Arma]

Wow. Here we go!

***Warning: May offend Muslims and violate Islamic religious mandates***

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[Proletariat]

"We can't let the terrorists win! Buy our stuff and defeat them!"

Stupid, but bound to happen. Oh well.

[Watchman]

Right. Idiot American right-wingers was what this mess was missing, wasn't it ?

To the lions with them, I say.

[Divinus Arma]

Does anybody know the translation for what is written on the bombturban?

[master of the puppets]

man we really have to get rid of idiots like that,

To the lion with them, i say.

they are really giving america a bad name.

[Major Robert Dump]

Right. Idiot American right-wingers was what this mess was missing, wasn't it ?

To the lions with them, I say.

I don't know what right wingers have to do with it. Several days ago I got a friend at a silk screening shop printing some up for me and my pals. T-shirts that piss people off are funny, and when theres an underlying political fiasco in which the people throwing a fit are being babies and reinforcing their own stereotypes, then it makes it all the better.

[Slyspy]

As a political cartoon it was fine. As a t-shirt designed simply to annoy Muslims it is not.

[Watchman]

I don't know what right wingers have to do with it.

To see the latest creation from conservative t-shirt maker MetroSpy...

Besides, its an attitude thing.

[Goofball]

I don't know what right wingers have to do with it. Several days ago I got a friend at a silk screening shop printing some up for me and my pals. T-shirts that piss people off are funny, and when theres an underlying political fiasco in which the people throwing a fit are being babies and reinforcing their own stereotypes, then it makes it all the better.

I agree. I must have one of these t-shirts.

*reaches for credit card*

[Proletariat]

MRD sums it up and sends another out of the park. I'll take three.

[Watchman]

...to the lions with you guys too.

[Devastatin Dave]

The best T-shirt I ever had as a teen was my Adolf Hitler Tour T-shirt. It had all these places that he annexed like it was the places he held concerts at and for London it said "cancelled" as well as Stalingrad. It was a million laughs. I wouldn't buy this T-shirt because its one thing to make fun of Hitler but I find this shirt offensive. But to each his own.

[solypsist]

some things things one just has to do/wear in high school. i remember than shirt. but once you graduate....

The best T-shirt I ever had as a teen was my Adolf Hitler Tour T-shirt. It had all these places that he annexed like it was the places he held concerts at and for London it said "cancelled" as well as Stalingrad. It was a million laughs. I wouldn't buy this T-shirt because its one thing to make fun of Hitler but I find this shirt offensive. But to each his own.

[Proletariat]

I've never met anyone worth being friends with that gets sincerely distraught over a t-shirt. I wouldn't wear a shirt that was vulgar, but only because it's classless, not because I'd be worried that someone would take a t-shirt image seriously. It's the most ridiculous when someone who supposedly has faith in a higher being gets upset over a t-shirt or cartoon. Way to vomit all over the redeeming qualities your beliefs hold.

[Watchman]

I'm mainly irked by the timing and the gesture it makes the whole thing, and the pompous arrogance and undercurrent of profiteering doesn't exactly help.

Lions.

[Proletariat]

There wouldn't be any market in offending certain groups if certain groups weren't idiotically offended. You have the offended to thank that these crass shirts will make anyone a dollar.

[Watchman]

Now you're wandering onto some pretty thin ice.

Still lions.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Now I like this one



and to show they just dont get on Islam

I was asked to remove these pics as thay were deemed offensive. I dont think the one I left is.However we shall see.

[Divinus Arma]

Gawain: CONGRATS!!!!!!


As per the topic. I am torn. Yes I see the blatant capitalizing on offensive subjects. But I also see the point in giving the finger to anyone who denies us our right to free speech. Which reason did the company choose? Probably the first. But who cares.

You can put just about anything in a newspaper or on a tshirt in the world and western civilization will not burn cars, riot, and set buildings ablaze. Pictures of Jesus in the Tijuana Donkey Show or Moses coming down brokeback mountain with two schlong tablets. Nazi signs and whatever else.

EDIT: Just had a thought as I was re-reading this. Muhammed is just the Muslim Prophet. Jesus is the Christian God on earth. But I could have a tshirt with Jesus being buttslammed and nobody would riot. So what gives? What if Mohammy was the Muslim God? Would we have a tsunami of boomskis self igniting at every civilized street corner? I don't get it. Why the double standard?

[Lemur]

Anything less that a full defense of our freedom of speech is appeasement. I'm amazed that anybody suggests we coddle the fundamentalists in any way. If we're craven now, how will we behave once they have nukes?

Why on earth should we allow Iran to tell us what we can print? The hypocrisy of the mullahs is breathtaking.

[Adrian II]

^What the Lemur said.

I don't do T-shirts, but friends of mine are working on a mug..

[ajaxfetish]

I love the first shirt in Gawain's post.

Ajax

[Navaros]

I forsee everyone wearing the bomber T-shirts becoming the recipient of many a' public beatdown! Right on. Go buy those bomber T-shirts, the resulting black eyes will match them nicely.

[Adrian II]

I forsee everyone wearing the bomber T-shirts becoming the recipient of many a' public beatdown! Right on. Go buy those bomber T-shirts, the resulting black eyes will match them nicely.

The only victims of the riots so far are Muslims and their children being trampled to death by other Muslims. I suppose I should somehow sympathise with them. But somehow I don't feel like it today. Maybe tomorrow.

[BDC]

Wearing the tshirts would be a good way of getting knifed I feel.

Gawain's ones are pretty good though. Especially the first and last ones.

[Meneldil]

Now I like this one

OMG those are awesome !! Tshirts that pisses people off are so damn great anyway. I used to have a t-shirt with the good old pic of the Che on the front, and a pic of Staline on the back, just to make fun of the cliché hippie teenagers.

[rory_20_uk]

I was going to post how I've seen many "offensive" T-shirts in London for many years. I think that Gwain got the best of them though...

No, I'd not wear them (although for my sins I thought that they were funny in a rather purile way).

Muslims need to realise that this is the society that we live in and get used to it, or start saving for a plane ticket.

[doc_bean]

OMG those are awesome !! People that pisses people off are so damn great anyway. I used to have a t-shirt with the good old pic of the Che on the front, and a pic of Staline on the back, just to make fun of the cliché hippie teenagers.

That's brillant ! I hate those Che T shirts (and often the people who wear them).

Wearing one of those Mohammed T shirts where I live would result in me getting my arse kicked unfortunately. But then again, it IS supposed to be insulting, and that can happen when you insult people.

[rasoforos]

Well idiots are never left without company...

...I fully support any form of satire, religious even more. But at the moment, such a t-shirt is not about satire, its about retaliating with stupidity against stupidity.

...I believe that the laws that safeguard free speach are above any radical cleric so I believe that the cartoon should be published. However, what good will come from people wearing such a t-shirt? Satire is one thing, 'in your face' ridicule is another.

[Louis VI the Fat]

A few years ago, the day the Iraq war started, I went to university wearing a 'Proud to be American' - shirt, a bit similar to this but with a Statue of Liberty image on it as well:



It was fantastic, people stopped and stared in aghast, spitting out their coffee and all. What a riot.

In that setting, at that time, it was just about the most provocative shirt imaginable.
I didn't get me beaten up or killed though...