After Mohammed the Teddy Bear took a dive. It doesn't seem to have occurred to him that maybe, just maybe, the ordeal of Gillian Gibbons shows that the whole multiculturalist pipe dream is up in smoke.
"Mohammed the mole digs author into a risky hole," by Chris Gourlay for the Times (thanks to JE):
A BRITISH children’s author who named a mole Mohammed to promote multiculturalism has renamed it Morgan for fear of offending Muslims.Kes Gray, a former advertising executive, first decided on his gesture of cross-cultural solidarity after meeting Muslims in Egypt.
The character, Mohammed the Mole, appeared in Who’s Poorly Too, an illustrated children’s book, which also included Dipak Dalmatian and Pedro Penguin, in an effort to be “inclusive”.
This weekend Gray said he had decided to postpone a reprint and rename the character Morgan the Mole even though there had been no complaints.
“I had no idea at all of the sensitivities of the name Mohammed until seeing this case in Sudan,” said Gray. “As soon as I saw the news I thought, oh gosh, I’ve got a mole called Mohammed � this is not good.
“I feel incredibly sorry for that teacher,” added Gray. “Luckily for me, I’m in a position where I can avoid this.”
At least for now.
The book has sold 40,000 copies in Britain and abroad since 1999.Gray said he tried “hard to embrace other cultures and I had no idea it would backfire like this. I was in Egypt this year and everyone was called Mohammed. I just thought it was a popular name”.
ADDENDUM: Now that Mohammed Mole has apparently left Islam, should he be killed as an apostate?
See it works! Self imposed sharia law.
Meanwhile, as the followers of the religion of hate, spite and malice applaud themselves for the campaign of terror and subjugation, the weary infidel comes to realise that Muslims and their medieval doctrine are in fact more trouble than they are worth.
While it is sad to see the situation of that poor idiot of a woman who traveled all the way to Sudan to make a total a** of herself it does allow the umma another chance to let us see peace and love in action.
I eagerly await the day when we see a Muslim Elvis impersonator calling himself Amool Shookup, then we will unite in strength against this foolishness!
Amool shaikup... good one
Multiculturalists bah... another name fcr a cowardso far as I am concerned. Where has this guy been all his life.. His head must have been somewhere which does not see the light of day..
"A BRITISH children’s author who named a mole Mohammed to promote multiculturalism has renamed it Morgan for fear of offending Muslims."
Dont they see the irony?
The article gives a horrendous detail. The infidel has sold 40,000 copies of a book that includes Mohammed the Mole. The "mole" is not one of those who acts as spy for the Islamic fifth column -- to act as a mole inside a Western government, for example, would be heroic! (This kind of heroism is happening more and more, thanks to people like the author.) But no, this mole is an animal!
My question: What should the consequences be? In Sudan, only a classroom was defiled, but in this case, the offense extends to many homes.
Shall we intimidate the author into giving up the dollars gained from his evil work? That would be a start. Let the money go to an Islamic "civil rights" organization that works for the imposition of Sharia.
What else should be done with the viper who disrespected us, we who are the best of people?
'I just thought it was a popular name'
Is this dhimmi for real? This has to be a joke.
This multiculti fool is producing a book for children to learn by, and has absolutely no inkling about that which he writes? What kind of shell has this nut been living in? The shameful act of self-censoring serves to further express his shameless dhimmitude. It is good to know that his sales have been embarrassingly weak over nearly ten years.
"Gray said he tried “hard to embrace other cultures and I had no idea it would backfire like this. I was in Egypt this year and everyone was called Mohammed. I just thought it was a popular name”.
I hate to hear of anyone being driven into seclusion by muslim outrage. But, I hope this guy hides, out of ignorance and shame.
His head must have been somewhere which does not see the light of day..
Posted by: lonewolf at December 2, 2007 9:26 AM
Right, this guy is the mole. It astounds me how seemingly intelligent people walk around blind, deaf and dumb concerning Islam. Figuring out that Islam is a pernicious evil was about as difficult for me as going into the kitchen and opening a can of soup. Yes, that difficult. And this was before I even knew JW existed.
..multiculturism has proven to be an effort in futility; if you mix good cultures with the bad cultures, you get conflict....and that is precisely what the Muslims hope to accomplish....time to end this experiment and it is time to Ban Muslim immigration...
I am going to buy some of the original 40K books. They should become highly collectable.
He doesn't realize that he is already in trouble.
One Teddy Bear vs 40,000 books.
I guess he just missed the cartoon rage, etc.
It just goes to show you how much damage the MSM is doing in their haste to defend this dangerous group.
Don't call anybody nappy-headed or you are in big trouble.
However if you are a black and your name is Montel, you can threaten to "hunt someone down and blow up their houses" on camera and all you will have to do is apologize. As a white person that phrase would get me up on a charge of 'terrorist threats'.
Nothing here, go back to sleep.
...however if you are a noteable black such as AL Sharpton, who once referred to blacks who do not support him as "yellow N.....s", you can escape the black onslaught as AL "the Liar " Sharpton unleased upon Imus who (who jokingly and perhaps in bad taste with a dose of poor judgement ) referred to female Black basketball players as "Nappy headed hos", ....the Imus incident did not result in deaths....
however Al "the Liar " Sharptons ugly mouth has resulted in the deaths of innocent people such as when he incited blacks to (in 1991) kill a Jewish student...this was the aftermaths of an incident in which a Jewish rabbis car accidently hit and kill a young black kid named Gavin Cato...AL "the Liar" Sharpton went on a rampage against the "the diamond merchants right here in Crown Heights," a disparaging reference to the Brooklyn neighborhood's Orthodox Jewish population....
....Al "the Liar" Sharpton even incited the black masses into a rioting and looting rampage and even help prevent the ambulance coming to the aid of the stricken child....Al "the Liar" Sharpton even said " It's an accident to allow an apartheid ambulance service in the middle of Crown Heights. ".....
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They ought to make a line of pork products called "Muhammad's Bacon" or something.
I also thought that Mohammed the Mole was a double agent with the CIA, the MI6 or the KGB.
In NBC's news coverage of the Teddy Bear Affair, Brian Williams stated that the teacher offended by letting and "animal" be named Muhammed. I always thought that Teddy was an *inanimate* object.
--
CT Yank
one confused little mole. went from being arabic to welsh. wonder if it'll be now a member of the "sons of glendower" and not al qeda! remember that terrorists are really freedom fighters.
we should name a bingo/gambling chain "mecca", no wait, that name's already taken!
http://www.meccabingo.com/
The biggest irony is that we "Islamophobes" understand Islam much better than these multiculturalists.
He should've kept the Mole's name and said it was named after a friend of his who works in the tunnels of Gaza. That alibi would have kept him covered.
OT, but saw on Sky news that "Lord" Goldsmith wants to see a few lines of God Save the Queen altered as they are not 'inclusive' enough.
Just call the mole Moron. Everybody will know .
I think we should commecialize this big time.
Forget about antagonistic cartoons. Imagine a whole line of plush animals named after Islamic personalities and concepts.
I suggest this line of plush toys be called "Quranables" ®.
Suggested plush toy figures:
- Allah-Gator
- Sha'aria Shark
- Moe-Ham
- Jihad Jakal
- Aisha Sheep
- Dhimmi Donkey
- Infidel Dog
- Haram Ram
- Headless Hippo (not for the squeamish)
- Ka'abah Kangaroo (with square black pouch)
- Mecca Monkey
- Medina Duck
- Saudi Snake
- Osama bin Llama
- Shi'ite Shih Tzu
- Sunni the Slug
Here! Here! What about saving the King of Hearts, the Jack of Diamonds and the Ace of Spades?!
"Gray said he tried 'hard to embrace other cultures and I had no idea it would backfire like this. I was in Egypt this year and everyone was called Mohammed. I just thought it was a popular name.'"
-- from the article above
Before setting out to "embrace other cultures" it might be a good idea to find out about them. And that finding out is not limited, in the case of Islam, to talking to Muslims, visiting Muslim countries, admiring their food or their mosque architecture. It consists in finding out what Islamic texts contain, what they inculcate, what attitudes naturally arise in those who grow up in societies suffused with Islam (even if they may not attend a madrasa or even attend, save on rare occasions, a mosque), and the atmopherics of those societies.
Yes. Before "embracing other cultures" one might, just as one might before "embracing other (women, men, younameit)" find out a bit more. Especially if one then arrogates to oneself the duty of making that other cultura, supposedly embraced, just-like-us palatable, possibly even to be admired -- when one is dealing with a fictional Islam of one's own ignorance and imaginings.
This hapless children's-book author, and the ponficators of the age, right up the politicians who presume to instruct and defend us, have a duty to learn about Islam before prating about, and propagandizing for, and fashioning policies supposedly adequate to the task of managing, Islam.
Too much too ask?
A slight modification to my suggestion above. The name of the product line should be "Quranimals" ®.
Hugh,
Yes it is too much to ask. They want to embrace a culture without finding anything about it. But then, they act all shocked when Muslims demand the death of a woman guilty of the heinous crime of naming a teddy bear Mohammed. The only people not shocked are the so called "Islamophobes". Gee you would have thought the cartoon riots would have gave them a clue.
These loons are so stupid. Showing children the way to get along by humanating animals - which DON'T get along, and giving them cutesy wootsy ethnic names, is beyond stupid. Is it any wonder that the batsh"t crazies are winning. In real life, does anyone believe that Dipak the dog would make nice with Pedro the penguin and watch the hatchling when he had to make a liquor store run? I think not.
I hope that wasn't insensitive enough.
Mohammed the Mole - does he have a cute little mole-suit and work in UK immigration?
Seize Him!
Gray said he tried “hard to embrace other cultures and I had no idea it would backfire like this.”
I met a devil woman
She took my heart away
She said, I've had it comin' to me
But I wanted it that way
I say that any love is good lovin'
So I took what I could get mmh, mmh, mmh
She looked at me with them brown eyes
And said, You ain't seen nothin' yet
B-B-B-Baby, you just ain't seen n-n-n-nothin' yet
Here's something that you're never gonna forget
B-B-B-Baby, you just ain't seen n-n-n-nothin' yet
"- Shi'ite Shih Tzu"
Wait...Shih Tzus are Shi'ite?! DAMN THOSE TERRORIST DOGS!!!
The name is quite appropriate. But the author should make it clear that he refers not to Mohammad the "Prophet", but to Mohammad the "12th Imam", who is hiding underground (literally!) until the proper time for him to re-emerge. So there's no insult to the "Prophet". Of course, some might say that there is still an insult to the 12th Imam, but they are only the Shia's, a "tiny minority" of Moslems.
There's also the leader of the pack, Sheikh Shih Tzu.
And there's the black sheep of the family, Shirk Shih Tzu.
I also thought that Mohammed the Mole was a double agent with the CIA, the MI6 or the KGB.
Posted by: CTYankee
No, you're thinking of the squirrels in Iran (see the JW archives for July 14th). Informed sources tell me that they're doing excellent work there.
Anybody named Mo had better watch out. Some mule-ah might decide it's blasphemy to name a mere mortal after that perfect prophet and issue one of those fatwas of death against those bearing that name.
"No, you're thinking of the squirrels in Iran (see the JW archives for July 14th). Informed sources tell me that they're doing excellent work there."
...WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?!!
*goes out and kills random squirrels* DIE, YOU SPIES!!!
Mohammad the Thieving Magpie makes more sense.
Or Mohammad the Mastodon (since his mindset is Paleolithic).
While my favorite would be:
Mohammad the Mantid, a predator insect.
...how about "Mohammed the Fake"? It's simple yet straightforward.
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Morgan the Mole? That is an insult to Morgan Fairchild! Flog him!
Gee, I hope no well meaning multi-culti jackass
names his non-Mohammedan child "Mohammed".
As "they" like to tell us, rivers of blood would flow.
"That is an insult to Morgan Fairchild! Flog him!"
It's an insult to Morgan Freeman, as well.
Everyone should start naming their pets Mohammed. It would drive the Islamofascists nuts if Mohammed turned up as one of the most popular pet names in the West. The best counter-jihad strategy is not appeasement but pushing things to reveal their logical absurdity. It is my right and it is anyone's right to name anything they want Jesus, Abraham, Mohammed, Yahweh or Allah. Only one group gets really all upset by this. The rest shrug off petty "offenses." So I say, let's use the names Mohammed and Allah in vain, and if it ticks off Muslims, so be it. We have to put up with Piss Christ. It's controversial, but we don't riot over it. Can you imagine a Piss Mohammed or Poop Allah? We haven't even gone there but should. Let's get it all out in the open now, before it is too late. The more Mohammed the Mole and Mohammed the Teddy Bear and Cartoon Jihad and other insanities we get to witness, the more people wake up to the psychosis at the heart of Islam or Islamism, if you will. The sooner the West wakes up, the less disruptive the culture clash down the road will be.
"If any mole changes his religion.. kill him.."
It's almost like a double negative.
A PC/multiculti "author" self-censures his own naive PC/multiculti characters.
So he ends up with a nice Anglo-sounding name for his mole. What if the Muslims now protest the lack of inclusion? There's no winning, if you are a multiculturalist. You offend either way.
Which begs the question posed in the original post... Have multiculturalists learned nothing?
Why would the Moslems be upset by a mole named Mohammad? Moles are regarded with great respect in the West; note the expression "Holy Moley". Also, Mo had his own mole; it was a hairy growth on his back that was the "seal" of the prophet. If one pinched it one could hear the squeal of the prophet.
"That is an insult to Morgan Fairchild! Flog him!"
It's an insult to Morgan Freeman, as well.
And to J.P.Morgan.
ebonystone-
LOL!
Exactly.
The p.c. author should be lambasted for making fun of Mohammad's sacred wart, sign of his prophethood.
Although the only prophecy he made was that "a black man from skinny legs from Ethiopia would tear down the Ka'aba, stone by stone" [Bukhari 2;26;665-666].
A Bob Marley fan, I'm guessing.
Rockin' Rastas vs. Lame Islam.
Reggae wins every time.
"Everyone should start naming their pets Mohammed."
Especially if said pets happen to be pigs.
How about a pig teddybear called Mohammed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zny6Ea07YVM
I'll guarantee that we'll be seeing plenty of Gillian Gibbons in Dhimmiwatch soon.
Her team will be busy creating the statement that effectively blames her, the UK and all non-muslims for the 'offence' caused.
Mohammed the Mole indeed!
Morgan is a very common name in Wales. Perhaps they will put a fatwa on his arse. I can just see it now as the angry mob forms after a sermon calling for his blood is preached in Chapel. How Green was MY valley?
That's funny, he didn't look shrewish at all.
/runs from room
Posted by: ebonystone
"Why would the Moslems be upset by a mole named Mohammad? Moles are regarded with great respect in the West; note the expression "Holy Moley".
Also, Mo had his own mole; it was a hairy growth on his back that was the "seal" of the prophet. If one pinched it one could hear the squeal of the prophet. "
All the more reason to consider renaming "Porky the Pig" Mohammed... after the squeal of the prophet.......
What about all these greaseballs fathers naming Mohammed? If I were the Holy Prophet up in Heaven, I would turn from all those pubescent virgin girls and 9-yr boys and shout down from the clouds I'm offended!
But it's the most popular prenom on Earth.
Has Mohammed finally gone soft?
"Everyone should start naming their pets Mohammed."
I suggested that very thing myself just yesterday when I posted "A Fish Named Muhammad".