Islamic Car Coming Down the Pike? -- 11/12/2007

Coming soon? A car designed for Muslims, complete with a compass to indicate the direction of Mecca for prayers and a compartment to house the Koran and prayer scarves.

Proposed by Iran, the plan is under consideration by Malaysia's national auto maker Proton, the company's managing director said at the weekend in Tehran, where he is taking part in a business mission.

Other features would include a roomy trunk where you can store your wives while running errands, radar detectors that spot Jews and Infidels, engines that shut off automatically five times a day for prayer purposes and most importantly a chassis packed with lots of high explosives and a dash-mounted detonator button for when your sleeper cell gets the word that it's "Jihad" time for the glory of God. Allahu Akhbar, baby!

Exactly! all the years I was blonde before I could notice my brain working even more defective..., I think that's why I decided to go brunette again...:clap2:

"The difference is that speaking generally Catholics are not victimised, reviled and hated on the basis of the actions of a minority of their population the way Muslims are today."

They once were south of the Mason-Dixon line. There is a reason only one US President was a Catholic (JFK was and is the only non-Protestant elected), and he got shot in the head.

Granted, today, that pejorative view is 99% less than in years past, but it did once raise its ugly head.

The US is the land of equal opportunity hatred, but we have grown from it for the most part. We once hated Italians, Irishmen, Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese and many others, but for the most part, except in isolated pockets of the US, they are mostly accepted. Muslims are the latest group to try for inclusion, and based on a few minority actions, it's going to take them awhile to gain acceptance.

"The difference is that speaking generally Catholics are not victimised, reviled and hated on the basis of the actions of a minority of their population the way Muslims are today."

They once were south of the Mason-Dixon line. There is a reason only one US President was a Catholic (JFK was and is the only non-Protestant elected), and he got shot in the head.

Granted, today, that pejorative view is 99% less than in years past, but it did once raise its ugly head.

The US is the land of equal opportunity hatred, but we have grown from it for the most part. We once hated Italians, Irishmen, Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese and many others, but for the most part, except in isolated pockets of the US, they are mostly accepted. Muslims are the latest group to try for inclusion, and based on a few minority actions, it's going to take them awhile to gain acceptance.

Its funny you said that. Being my family is of Italian decent (father was born there) years back we would not of been able to buy a home where we lived in NJ. Our neighbor actually showed us her original deed to her home and it stated the home could not be bought by Italians,Jews,blacks and a bunch of other minority's at one time.

The difference is that speaking generally Catholics are not victimised, reviled and hated on the basis of the actions of a minority of their population the way Muslims are today.

I know what it has been like in australia in the wake of 9/11, I can only imagine what its been like in the states.

DITTO - I don't like generalizations....