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BENZ BE UPON HIM
Check the protester at right, who apparently represents the activist group Mercedes Owners for Islam:
Michelle Malkin has observed this graphic confusion previously. One more time, stupids: this is a peace symbol. And this is the symbol and trademark for the Mercedes Benz range of fine automobiles. Look—here’s a picture of Hitler (note: not a peacenik) riding in one.
(Via Dan Lewis)
UPDATE. Headlines from Ed Driscoll:
All We Are Saying, Is Give The C320 Sports Coupe A Chance
And Immodest Proposals:
This Is Turning Into the Most Unintentionally Humorous Apocalyptic World Engulfing Crisis, EVER!
Thanks, Andy. Now, I’ll never be able to look at a Mercedes Benz symbol the same way again. ;)
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2006 07 16 at 10:23 AM • permalinkRebecca beat me to it in #3, but I wanted to add, if this is the Muslim version of “Make love, not war”, you will never see me on their side.
Not even if they throw in falafel.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 07 16 at 10:34 AM • permalinkYou know you’re in trouble when Leslie Nielsen is on your side (check guy at left).
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 16 at 10:44 AM • permalinkWell, I guess the guy with the Mercedes symbol and Hitler had pretty similar attitudes to Israel, so it’s probably appropriate.
Posted by Susan Norton on 2006 07 16 at 11:10 AM • permalinkThere were pictures of people carrying banners from an Australian “Anarchist and Communist” group. How the hell can you simultaneously be an anarchist and a communist? (purely a rhetorical question, of course. I realize these idiots haven’t thought it through.)
Posted by Buzz Crutcher on 2006 07 16 at 11:13 AM • permalinkConsidering how many Mercedes Benz there are in Araby, maybe it IS the new symbol of Islam.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 07 16 at 11:44 AM • permalinkShame! A soft target, I think, Tim. What would she know - she’s a woman. They’re not allowed to drive.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 07 16 at 11:59 AM • permalinkMercs are fine automobiles, but I do think the new CLS looks like someone’s punctured it.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 07 16 at 12:27 PM • permalinkTim, your comments are usually funny, but this time not nearly as funny as theirs. For those who didn’t follow the link, their own comment on that picture was:
‘Very popular with the TV crews ...’
Posted by Harry Eagar on 2006 07 16 at 12:28 PM • permalinkSlight OT but check the difference in the description of Tel Aviv:
From an Associated Press report in The Australian:
“A military official said the group was also believed to have longer-range projectiles that could hit the Israeli commercial hub of Tel Aviv.”
From Harry De Quetteville and Paul McGeough, Tehran, in The Age:
“Israeli intelligence claimed that 100 Iranian Revolutionary Guards were in Lebanon helping Hezbollah, and that their weapons would enable Hezbollah to strike with devastating force at Israel’s armed forces and civilian population as far south as the capital, Tel Aviv.”
As if “Israeli intelligence” would describe Tel Aviv as Israel’s capital.
Obvious where the propaganda loyalties lie.
Posted by Geoffrey MG on 2006 07 16 at 12:43 PM • permalinkMcGeogh’s made a career out of being proven wrong, Geoffrey. You’re expecting a diversion from the path now?
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 07 16 at 12:47 PM • permalinkUshie - if it came about, it would be some of the most beautiful words in print.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 07 16 at 01:36 PM • permalinkCome on now, are things so bad that you have to resort to criticising someone because of their lack of artistic talent?
Posted by sdmoderate on 2006 07 16 at 02:30 PM • permalink"I thought Benz had something to do w/the ovens”
No, but the “firm avidly supported Nazism and in return received arms contracts and tax breaks that enabled it to become one of the world’s leading industrial concerns.” They also used slave labor, and “at least eight Jews were murdered by DB managers or SS men at a plant in occupied Poland.” They may also have built mobile poison gas vans, but the allegation lacks cooboration.
It’s mighty unsporting of you to mention this embarassing little factoid - just because the moonbats insist on using the corporate symbol as their emblem.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2006 07 16 at 02:40 PM • permalinkHow the hell can you simultaneously be an anarchist and a communist? (purely a rhetorical question, of course. I realize these idiots haven’t thought it through.)
You’re right--they haven’t thought it through. And they’re not the only ones of course; there was a pretty good article in the Weekly Standard earlier this year that dubbed H.L. Mencken “an anarcho-authoritarian”:
Part of the reason it’s so hard to make sense of Mencken is that he was, paradoxically, an anarcho-authoritarian. He agreed with the American Civil Liberties Union on the importance of free speech. But while that organization, under the influence of principled men such as Felix Frankfurter, argued for such freedoms on the grounds that “a marketplace of ideas” (to use Justice Holmes’s term) was the best method of arriving at the truth, Mencken supported it in order to shield superior men like himself from being hobbled by the little people. For the same reason, Mencken was a near anarchist when it came to America, but an authoritarian when it came to the iron rule of the Kaiser and General Ludendorff. We are more familiar with anarcho-Stalinists such as William Kunstler, who had a parallel attitude toward the United States and the Soviet empire, but it was Mencken who blazed the trail down which Kunstler and his ilk would travel.
Posted by Ed Driscoll on 2006 07 16 at 03:10 PM • permalinkBruce Rheinstein — Verdammt blogger, zose vans were for the fertilizer and weather balloons making!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 07 16 at 03:50 PM • permalinkMake hummous not war.
I guess they’re not fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Posted by JDFlanagan on 2006 07 16 at 05:55 PM • permalinkp.s. The scene so far( Aussie version)
Dover Heights and Rose Bay hits out at Lakemba, hits Auburn. Dover Heights then hits Sutherland Shire (gods christian country) and if it hits Lidcombe Dover Heights might see Bankstown come into the debate.
The Islamic lebs currently over there, could be on pensions, thank you Australia and have it sent over there by relatives.
Also, did anyone (Islamic Lebs) acknowledge how lucky they are to have an Australia passport on tv? no
MInd you Leb country is a dump. The apartments are horrible and council workers don’t clean the streets on the Islamic side.
The easiest way for these clowns to remember how to draw the peace sign is to think of it’s other name “the footprint of the American chicken”. Think that was one of PJ O’Rourkes inventions.
Posted by March Hare on 2006 07 16 at 07:29 PM • permalinkSome Notes on Peace:
“There’s still a chance, and the rulers of the Middle East are hoping that this thing can be pulled back from the brink and the fires focused on Hezbollah, then possibly on a narrow coterie in Teheran. But if that way forward fails, a large part of the blame will historically fall on those who forced the West to fight the war against terrorists with politically correct half-measures. Who created the dinky rules which made it impossible to excise abominations like Hezbollah and Hamas. Or even to question them. And perhaps made it even necessary to fund them. Their good intentions or fecklessness have made the terrible alternative that stares us in the face likely. Let us only hope that they have not made it inevitable.”
Belmont ClubIf the protesters refuse to protest on the frontlines in Gaza, does that make them chicken shwarmas?
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 07 16 at 08:40 PM • permalinkOn the subject of leftist stupidity, left-tards decided to hold the Russian consulate hostage in Sydney recently,to protest “The ongoing brutality of the capitalist system”, err or something.
I like the photo, I wonder if that is their beamer on the left, I like their snazzy face masks as well, or maybe it’s a result of their medication?. They even present a letter signed by “(Names withheld).”
The slogan “Make Hommos Not War” while appealing to the western Christian, it is actually NOT Islamic, and possibly ‘anti’ Muhammad who said;
2.216 Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible
that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But God knoweth, and ye know not.9:14 Fight them! Allah will chastise them at your hands, and He will lay them low and give you victory over them, and He will heal the breasts of folk who are believers.
9:111 Lo! Allah hath bought from the believers their lives and their wealth because the Garden will be theirs: they shall fight in the way of Allah and shall slay and be slain. It is a promise which is binding on Him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur’an. Who fulfilleth His covenant better than Allah ? Rejoice then in your bargain that ye have made, for that is the supreme triumph.
Actually, I can’t stand hummus. Tastes like wood putty.
Posted by Harry Eagar on 2006 07 17 at 03:23 AM • permalinkHafta differ, Longhorn. The peace symbol is a semaphore N (the two diagonals) and D (the 12- and 6-o’clock lines). ND, standing for “nuclear disarmament”. The ban-the-bomb movement started it. So that is the prior “real” version.
Definitely Merc stars were often displayed in the 60s, but they were drawn by hippae that were too dozey to notice the other line.
Anyway, the peace sign: yet another reason the 60s never should have happened.
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Maybe that’s the female Muslim version of the peace symbol, which has undergone its figurative clitorectomy [sp?] and had the downstroke removed? Or M-B is a sponsor for old time’s sake?