# I burning your embacies. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 7, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393 "2006-02-07T15:51:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/41 "2006-02-08T16:02:51Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > Hopefully the UN does the right thing and halts their Nuclear Program. > > Jim Well, first the UN has to send them a letter telling them how angry they are with Iran. ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/42 "2006-02-08T16:56:54Z")
All your embacy are belong to us! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/43 "2006-02-08T17:07:32Z")
> [@Sri Theo](#): > > Wait so if an Iranian paper prints these pictures- can Jewish people burn Irans embassies (if they even have any?). No, the Israelis need to raise above the stupidity of the Embassy burners. This will embarrass the idiots more. **HPL** : Dear Iran, …You have been very naughty and we don’t think we can allow you to proceed with your Nuclear Program. Your Friends, The Rest of the World ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/44 "2006-02-08T17:28:51Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > No, the Israelis need to raise above the stupidity of the Embassy burners. This will embarrass the idiots more. They won’tl believe the Israelis are wimps if they don’t set fire to stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/45 "2006-02-08T17:45:26Z")
Is anybody else hoping they make some funny cartoons that translate well into English? I love me some good tasteless cartoons and jokes! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/46 "2006-02-08T18:41:54Z")
> [@Sri Theo](#): > > Wait so if an Iranian paper prints these pictures- can Jewish people burn Irans embassies (if they even have any?). I’m sure the Israelis are welcome to burn down any embassy of a Muslim country in Israel… except Egypt. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/47 "2006-02-08T18:48:42Z")
**RevTim** Heck, I’d love to see this “Battle of the Tasteless Cartoons” continue. For a response to Iran’s Holocaust cartoons, maybe “The West” could respond with side-splitting jokes about the 12/26/2003 Iranian earthquake which killed 30,000. Heck, maybe the team of Zucker Abrams Zucker could make an entire movie of the tragedy - in their “Airplane” comedic style. I think the Iranians will be quite surprised how tasteless we can be. * * * On a more serious note, it is strictly forbidden to show any type of image of Mohammed (be it flattering or unflattering), because as the prophet said, it would lead to idolatry, which he didn’t want. Fair enough. If that is the case, why is Mohammed the most popular name in the Middle East? Isn’t that practice a form of idolatry? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/48 "2006-02-08T19:12:21Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > **RevTim** > Heck, I’d love to see this “Battle of the Tasteless Cartoons” continue. > > For a response to Iran’s Holocaust cartoons, maybe “The West” could respond with side-splitting jokes about the 12/26/2003 Iranian earthquake which killed 30,000. > Heck, maybe the team of Zucker Abrams Zucker could make an entire movie of the tragedy - in their “Airplane” comedic style. > > I think the Iranians will be quite surprised how tasteless we can be. Maybe they should make a sequel to “The Artistocrats” with this material… Someone alert Paul Provenza and Penn Gillette! ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/49 "2006-02-08T19:25:44Z")
Glad they didn’t print my cartoon of Mohammed getting tag teamed by the cowboys from Brokeback Mountain, that would have really pissed some people off. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/50 "2006-02-08T19:32:26Z")
> [@BabaBooey](#): > > Glad they didn’t print my cartoon of Mohammed getting tag teamed by the cowboys from Brokeback Mountain, that would have really pissed some people off. That’s the wrongest thing I’ve ever heard. They were shepherds in Brokeback Mountain, not cowboys. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/51 "2006-02-08T20:00:49Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > They were shepherds in Brokeback Mountain, not cowboys. …and the Basque shepherd says, “I wish it were dark.” ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/52 "2006-02-08T21:21:55Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > That’s only one of them. > > You can see the whole set at the [following wiki link](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b0/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_drawings.jpg). As you said the image of the Prophet shouldn’t be used but the one that’s really pissing them off is the one of Muhammad with a bomb in his turbin. Actually, what’s really pissing them off are the _[extra three grossly offensive ones that the newspaper never printed](http://counterterror.typepad.com/the_counterterrorism_blog/2006/02/fabricated_cart.html)_, but which the Danish imams added to their pamphlet, presumably because the real 12 weren’t outrageous enough to excite the type of reaction they wanted. (Question: Why are the imams allowed to publish these cartoons without censure? Surely they are equally guilty?) ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/53 "2006-02-09T02:12:25Z")
> [@barracuda](#): > > To me, the most hilarious part of this story is the statement by the religious leader of Iran: > > “Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Tuesday that publication of the caricatures was an Israeli conspiracy motivated by anger over the victory of the militant Hamas group in last mont’s Palestinian elections.” ([Latest news from around the world | The Guardian](http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5601729,00.html)) > > I’m not sure if this guy thinks that Israel arranged for these cartoons to be published, then produced the Hamas victory several months later for some nefarious purpose of their own, or if he’s just so friggin’ ignorant that before and after are confusing concepts to him. Or, just maybe, lying incendiary statements are much more inflamatory and useful to him than any approximation of the truth. > > I’d guess the last is closest to reality. Uhhh, OK. I can see that. All the Knesset (however it’s spelled), the Prime Minister, and all the generals are hanging out drinking beer at the local roadhouse, and the PM says “hey y’all! Watch this!” That’s when he draws the cartoon on a bar napkin and mails it off to Denmark and Iran 😃 ROFL ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/54 "2006-02-09T02:24:29Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > **RevTim** > Heck, I’d love to see this “Battle of the Tasteless Cartoons” continue. > > For a response to Iran’s Holocaust cartoons, maybe “The West” could respond with side-splitting jokes about the 12/26/2003 Iranian earthquake which killed 30,000. > Heck, maybe the team of Zucker Abrams Zucker could make an entire movie of the tragedy - in their “Airplane” comedic style. > > I think the Iranians will be quite surprised how tasteless we can be. The Iranian embassy? What is it? It’s a big building, full of guys wearing towels on their heads, but that’s not important now. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/55 "2006-02-09T02:46:48Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > The Iranian embassy? What is it? > > It’s a big building, full of guys wearing towels on their heads, but that’s not important now. 😃 Shirley you don’t mean that? ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/56 "2006-02-09T03:15:27Z")
He does, and stop calling him Shirley! I knew I picked the wrong week to give up opium! ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/57 "2006-02-09T05:43:15Z")
> [@](#): > > For a response to Iran’s Holocaust cartoons, maybe “The West” could respond with side-splitting jokes about the 12/26/2003 Iranian earthquake which killed 30,000. > Heck, maybe the team of Zucker Abrams Zucker could make an entire movie of the tragedy - in their “Airplane” comedic style. **Grieving Relative** : How soon before you can rescue the earthquake victims? **Rescuer** : I can’t tell. **Grieving Relative** : You can tell me. I’m a relative. Well can’t you take a guess? **Rescuer** : Not for another 2 hours. **Grieving Relative** : You mean you can’t take a guess for another 2 hours? ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/58 "2006-02-09T07:55:49Z")
> [@yojimbo](#): > > Would you say Christianity is a religion of peace? It’s not too hard to show Christians killing and maiming in the name of their religion and national identity. > > Yes I know it’s probably not to the same level but it exists. > > Islam is a religion of peace the same way Christianity and Judaism is. That doesn’t stop fanatics subverting the message to what ever they want. > > BTW I’m an atheist who wises they all would just fuck off and keep their religious shit to themselves and their gods. Now that you mention it, I have to give the Christian folk on these boards huge credit. The way we sling around phrases like “Jesus fucking Christ on a purple pogo stick” without fear of the Reader being bombed is admirable. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/59 "2006-02-09T08:35:38Z")
[Renè Magritte’s point of view.](http://www.peterbreedveld.com/archives/cecibom.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393/60 "2006-02-09T08:39:39Z")
**gum** , _vertaling asseblief_? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-burning-your-embacies/343393.md?page=4)