Stuff Muslims Don’t Like: A new feature
You know that popular blog “Stuff White People Like?” It’s a humorous site that keeps a running list of, well, stuff that white people like. The mainstream media went ga-ga over the site and a NY publisher forked over a book advance reported to reach $300,000. This week, the blog’s creator announced that the book, “Stuff White People Like,” is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com and elsewhere and will be released in July.
Now, as you all well know, the reason it’s acceptable to poke fun at “white people” is that no one is going to riot, burn things, or slice any heads off for mocking yuppie love of Toyota Priuses and Public Radio and Microbreweries.
Which got me to musing about a new feature: Stuff Muslims Don’t Like.
Of course, Stuff Muslims Don’t Like doesn’t purport to characterize the entire Muslim population anymore than Stuff White People Like purports to characterize the entire population of white people. It’s a look at predictable predilictions, proclivities, and trends.
I’ve already documented tons of items already that have set off the Religion of Perpetual Outrage. And Amboy Times has compiled a handy list of things that offend Muslims. But I think it’ll be a worthwhile exercise from here on out to start keeping a running blog list, a la Stuff White People Like.
Ask yourself this: Would the big chain bookstores carry a book about Stuff Muslims Don’t Like next to the Stuff White People Like book?
It would be an interesting test, no?
To kick things off, the first SMDL entry comes from Birmingham, England this week, where Muslims are outraged over billboard posters of women in bikinis–and outraged over advertising in general:
Matalan posters outrage Muslims
Apr 30 2008 By Paul SuartA COUNCILLOR today called for more control over advertising posters in “culturally sensitive” areas of Birmingham.
Coun Talib Hussain made his plea after a billboard on the corner of Sydenham Road and Golden Hillock Road, in predominantly Muslim Sparkbrook, was defaced.The hoarding, close to mosques in Anderton Road and Golden Hillock Road and visible to parents and children walking to Montgomery Primary School, promotes Matalan’s new swimwear range and features three scantily-clad models.
The models have been covered in thick white paint to conceal bare flesh.
Coun Talib Hussain (Ind, Sparkbrook) criticised the vandalism but said it was a result of the lack of action from city council bosses. He said: “I condemn the people that did this but at the same time it’s wrong for companies to put that kind of advert in sensitive wards.
“I have received complaints on a number of occasions not to put adverts like that in Sparkbrook. “The city council should not give permission to advertising like that in these wards. “Having families seeing naked pictures does not bring the community together, it provokes things.”
The vandalism is similar to a spate of attacks in 2005 and 2006 by a group called Muslims Against Advertising.
Criticism of over-the-top, pornified advertising is certainly welcome. But the targeted swimwear firm in this case, Matalan, is not some Victoria’s Secret-style retailer. It’s a family clothing company. The photos were not “naked pictures.” (Blogger Methodist Preacher has the advertising photo.) And unlike those who object to the Abercrombie and Fitch-i-fication of advertising, the Muslim critics of the innocuous bikini ads in Birmingham are driven not merely by an interest in protecting “cultural sensitivities”–but by an Islamic imperative that won’t rest until we’ve all traded in our bikinis for those stifling
burquinis.
Out: Two-piece swimsuits.
In: Sharia chic.
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Uh-oh. Make sure the anti-bikini vandals don’t get a hold of the latest issue of Fitness!
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Thank you MM. I needed this today. It’s cold and blustery here in central CA…
bikinis….so glad I’m not a Muslim!
Out – respect and love for family
In – killing your daughters because they “shamed” you by having boyfriends
Michelle, as a strong-willed America Patriot, I am decidedly FOR Two-Piece Bikinis.
Even in winter.
Grilled pork chops and chardonnay.
Daylight Savings Call to Prayer
I’ve met a few who don’t really appreciate the artwork of my book:
Al Queada’s flag with the Mexican flag superimposed on it.
Can’t imagine why anyone would want to convert to a religion that got itself stuck in the 7th century AD. And will kill anyone who objects to it.
Ever read the Koran? Talk about hate speech, whoa!! Hate and kill everyone who isn’t one of you. The so-called “fundamentals” are really the ones who are following the teachings of that book.
Bacon sammidges and toothpaste.
Greenwich Mean/Meridian Time.
Wouldn’t it be so much easier to have a website of “Things Muslims Like?” Or do we have too many of them already?
I know for example that Muslims don’t like anything I (and probably you) say, think, do, or feel. Expanded out in detail, that would be an awfully long series of lists.
Lender’s Bagels
Stuff Muslims Don’t Like:
Truth, Justice and the American Way!
Bathing…above the ankles.
Here’s a great list in progress:
http://www.islam-watch.org/Others/Things-That-Offend-Muslims.htm
The Joooooooooooos.
oops, just noticed that list is the same one by Amboy Times. Sorry.
Are you serious? It’s a religion centered around extreme monotheism. I’m not saying it’s a good or even very reasonable theology of monotheism, but unless all that God stands for is democracy, America, and Israel, then it’s indefensible to say that Muslims don’t like God. That they (or many of them) fundamentally misunderstand Him is a reasonable assertion, but that Muslims don’t like God isn’t at all a reasonable claim. What they don’t like is any thing they perceive as polytheism or associationism. There’re enough things to be critical of Muslims of without making things up.
My daughter is going for her first job interview in her life tomorrow. Does this mean I have to “erase” her because of my honor?? I tell her all the crazy things that muslim men demand of non moes or of their women and she just gives me this look like “yeah, right….someone would be getting their arse kicked…and it wouldn’t be me.” Us Western women ROCK!!!
anyone else think the muslim bath wear looks a bit like tele-tubby outfits? creepy…
People who think for themselves.
Women (in general)
and God forbid that they should see a woman bodybuilder!!
Women.
opps, shoulda refreshed JH.
Christians and Buddhists and Hindus and Jews,
Magazines, Movies, and Pro-Western views,
Marines and Soldiers and Bottles of Booze,
These things make Muslims blow up their Shoes.
Women with clitorises.
ROFLMAO…nicely put
Stuff Muslims Don’t Like:
Learning how to land a plane.
Stuff White People Like:
Ducati
On the stuff white people like: Asian women are # 11, they should be numero uno. I’m just saying.
# one thing Jihadist don’t like? I MEF, and a MEU (SOC) and maybe you can throw a couple of zoommies in, with their B52 bombers.
/s/
José
Dear jroberts;
If you concede that the God most people commenting on MM’s blog refer to is the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, then yes, the Muslims are indeed against Him and all He stands for.
josetheguerilla said:
Beautiful asian women who play Chopin.
Movie stars !http://www.odysseyart.net/Entertainment/EntertainmentFiles/MissPiggy_sketch.jpg
Things Muslims don’t like?
American military might!!!
Deodorant,and Blackhawks
Our wonderful allies, the Saudis, confiscated my rosary when I entered their country to protect their miserable arses.
The word “God” (or rather the Greek, Latin, and semitic forms thereof) precede trinitarian thinking. That is, in Christian trinitarian thought, “God is” is logically and historically prior to “The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are.” You have trinitarian thinking as early as the 2nd century; it doesn’t get formulated (in the strict sense meaning put into a formula) fully until near the end of the 4th century. A Christian and a Jew or a Muslim can all say “God exists” and “there is one God” and mean the same thing thereby. They will disagree on statements that follow therefrom, but they are in essential agreement on that point. Christianity and Islam (and to a lesser extent Judaism) are both strongly influenced by Aristotle and Plotinus, and at the high point of both of their philosophies, they disagree on very little. The odds are pretty good you couldn’t tell the difference between St. Thomas Aquinas’ doctrine of God and Avicenna’s (that’s not an insult to you; most people couldn’t tell the difference). Muslims have different standards than Trinitarians on what constitutes polytheism and how to treat polytheists (and there is disagreement by Muslims on whether or not Christians are polytheists), but we agree that God is and that He is One, that He created everything, and that the prophets of the Hebrew Bible are his prophets. That’s not a trivial amount of agreement.
Things white military veteran type people dont like: blogs that are designed such that if you hit the “back” button of your browser, you are merely registered as a “click” to whatever clickbank tool the blogmaster us using.
THE AWESOME AUGER!
IT WORKS OK IN THE SAND OF THE MIDDLE EAST BUT IS AWFUL IN THE ROCKS OF AFGHANISTAN.
“she wore annnnn…itsy bitsy tiny weenien yellow pokah dihimi bikini….”
You better watch out, Michelle. You might have a fatwa pronounced against you.
#101: Michelle Malkin (it’s obvious, isn’t it?!)
I like women in bikinis.
Just sayin’…
Strong, free women protecting themselves with guns in the Israeli army.
… how can anyone not like the Awesome Auger.
Come on.
THANK YOU! A CASE OF MIGHTY PUTTY IS ON THE WAY TO YOU, WISE MAN!
Swimming pools & pig stys.
Red, white and blue bikinis rule!
EVERYthing.
Maybe if Muslim men and women could interact more normally; they wouldn’t be so socially constipated (and murderous as well) all the time. If a picture of a woman in a bikini sends them into spasms of rage, something is quite wrong, as they are denying their own fundamental humanity. Freud could write a book (if he were alive) about Muslim fanaticism and sexual repression. Im not talking about “love the one you’re with” mores and values; I am talking about normal human intimacy.
Boys over the age of 21. After 21 it becomes ghey.
They don’t like “Bikinis” because it represents what could happen to them…the Bikini was named after famed US atomic tests at the Bikini Atoll(s) in the Pacific in 1947-upon which the designer of the Bikini garment intimated (hee hee)”..that when a woman wears (a bikini) imagine the effect on her boyfriend/husband as he gazes upon her loveliness -it would be for him like witnessing the power of an atom bomb!”-hence, the “Bikini” as we now know the beachwear.
Perhaps for the religion of perpetual outrage fears them subliminally not for their perception of immorality, but of what could happen to them if they get really out of line with the West…I wonder.
Things Islamists really don’t like:
JDAMs.
John Wayne
England, if it is not already lost, will be consumed by the caliphate if they do not wise-up NOW and kick some islamofascist arse, regain control of their country and send these mullahs (oh, sorry, muslim Counsillors) packing. Pronto my friends, pronto! The EU is beginning to look more like the MU (muslim Union) and that is scary.
“culturally sensitive” areas of Birmingham…it’s wrong for companies to put that kind of advert in sensitive wards…“Having families seeing naked pictures does not bring the community together, it provokes things.”
Sorry mo, but you folks are the provocateurs. Stay in your homeland and censor, burn, stab and defile all you want but leave the modern world to our own ways. WE do not want a return to medieval times (except the dinner theater in Anaheim that is). Period!
There are many things muslims don’t like such as pork but Bikinis are in the category of stuff that drives muslims crazy. The nasty little secret is that behind the scenes they go wild over it. That is the main reason for the Burka, they all know it is true and the only way to keep your girl somewhat safe is to cover her completely. It’s really very interesting what they say they don’t like in public and what they do in private. The recent bust of the chief of the Iranian morality and vice police in the brothel with four or five neked women on their knees praying in front of him is one example. Hey that’s what he asked for that’s what he got. That’s a recent one but there are many many other examples of the same behavior. Familiar with the cat meat sheik of Australia?
Your wrong.
Or for the sake of clarity, you are completely and totally wrong, and you are ignorant.
SMDL. This is BRILLIANT, and I am standing and applauding; and LOL – the post about the landing of airplanes…
My suggestion: Land that can produce food (thank you Sam Kinison).
Amen brother, nice video.
And for my contribution:
Israel
IDF
Bullets soaked in pigs blood
Teddy Bears
Good hygiene
Muslim fanatics may be offended by bikinis, but that hasn’t stopped one cleric from describing what awaits in paradise.
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1741.htm
So, who is the pervert?
Thanks for the mention Michelle. I started the List last year and usually add a new item once or twice a week. Latest additions include Barbie,Batman and Spiderman, pictures of women in the newspaper, and sculptures of Mohammed.
I could never convert to a religion that won’t let me oggle a beautiful woman in a bikini without expecting me to stone her to death or somesuch foolishness. Guess I’ll just have to refuse to submit.
Can’t believe anyone hasn’t said it as of yet so I will.
Free speech or other religions.
Lipstick.
Smiling… Humor… Cartoons… and even Teddy Bears
It’s a good thing you have to be registered to post here, whew. Did you see some of the comments on Brent’s link? Scary stuff.
More for the list:
*Counterstrike (was banned from international competitions in Iran since the game pits terrorists vs. counter -terrorists)
*Most all other video games
SMDL: Members who leave the gang, uh, I mean, religion. Cartoons. Criticism of their Prophet even based on a fair biography of his life, e.g. pedophilia and murder. Separation of church and state. Women’s rights. Any passport with “Israel” stamped as a destination. Jews. Prosletizing of Muslims by other religions. Pork. Alcohol. Freedom of speech. Freedom of the press. Freedom of association. (But don’t say they hate us for our freedom. That’s just WAAAAY off base). My gosh. You COULD write a whole book of this stuff.
Stuff Muslims Don’t Like:
-The Patriot Act
-Child pornography (but only if they have to pay for it)
-Dental hygiene
-Missing the target when throwing feces at Gitmo guards
-Having to abstain from sex because the goat has a headache
-The View after Rosie O’Donnell left
Richard Simmons’ “Sweatin’ to the Oldies”…but I guess that applies to all religions really.
1. Raindrops on roses
2. Whiskers on kittens
3. Bright copper kettles
4. Warm woolen mittens
Predator aircraft. Well, on second thought, maybe not. Having one around them means a quick ticket to paradise and martyrdom.
My wrong? I think you meant that I am wrong, in which case you ought to have said “You’re wrong.” If you’re going to call people ignorant, at least have the good sense not to mix up “you’re” and “your”. That’s the sort of thing you learn in third grade.
So, I’m “completely and totally wrong”? Muslims like polytheism? Their religion is not based on monotheism? Muslims do not fundamentally misunderstand God? God doesn’t stand for anything other than America, democracy, and Israel? Islam in fact doesn’t have so much wrong with it that we in fact do need to make things up about? I cannot imagine anyone disagreeing with any of propositions, except many Muslims and pro-Muslims would disagree with the last one. How, exactly, am I totally wrong? Exactly what level of discourse are you looking for? Do you want to be honest, or do you just want to engage in unwarranted name-calling? How many comments show up here condemning liberals for their failure to be logical? Are you sure you’re not one of them? You’re certainly not thinking very clearly. If I’m “completely and totally wrong,” then I must have been wrong when I said that Muslims fundamentally misunderstand God. I said that they believe in God, that they believe in one God, and that much of their beliefs with regards to the one God are similar to ours on certain points. That’s it. What, exactly, do you find objectionable or not true?
Go Bikinis! ME LIKEY!
Der Weinersnitzel.
Nathan’s Hot Dogs!
L.A. Bacon wrapped Hot Dogs.
double trouble.
Anything with BACON! Which reminds me of a funny comic I saw… http://www.xkcd.com/418/
Sorry, see-dub, I still can’t figure out how to link.
Chairs in church.
Alcohol
Women showing legs
Women working
“Holy” images
Cutting women’s hair
Dancing and dating
Non-KJV bibles… oh..
Sorry no – that’s fundamentalist Christians! I do apologize…
I think gippergirl is correct. There is a vast difference between God and Allah, even beyond the perceived polytheism Muslims have towards Christians and the Trinity.
We’ve all known that “Islam” means “submission” (or “peace through submission”). Allah is a slave master, he punishes disobedience and *might* reward good behavior (but only for men and jihadists…women don’t really get to go to heaven in Islam, or so I’ve been told).
Christians call God “Father”, and – while He can be jealous (when people willfully turn away from Him) – the relationship is based on love and a sense of family and community. Christ was born of a woman and sacrificed to atone for our sins…because God loves us.
So, yeah, I’d say that’s a vast difference.
And this happened here? In Birmingham, Alabama?
Hello, shari’a creep.
Seriously people – how long will it be before some CAIR cronie petitions Congress to make it a law that *all* women have to wear burquas out of cultural sensitivity toward Muslims? Laugh at me if you will, but if billboards are offensive to them, my uncovered head, face, arms and legs (and every woman’s) must be, too.
Which leads me to my addition to “Stuff Muslims Don’t Like” – me.
Lan astaslem. I will not submit. I will not surrender.
sausage…please show me where fundamentalist Christians have forced – through violence – their worldviews on other.
When they send out a batch of skirt-wearing women to bomb buildings and crash planes, then we’ll talk.
In the meantime, grow up!
Stuff Muslims Don’t Like: life.
I find islam offensive, can it be banned now pls. thx.
from the Australian article the young lady stated “This meets our cultural requirements,” referring to the burquini. so this has me confused. I thought that the hijab, niqab and other female covering garments were required by the Muslim religion, but this young lady says it is only a cultural requirement. If the latter then why is everyone bending over backwards to accede to a cultural requirement
Don’t forget: Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
They don’t like freedom at all.
While I think Sausage takes it to the extreme, I can see his/her point. I don’t think only Muslims get upset at seeing that much skin; while I don’t find offensive, I’m not sure it’s completely appropriate either.
I see this in a similar vein to Christian citizens who get upset when a porn shop or strip club want to move into their area. They are within their rights to petition to prevent those from appearing, as I think the people in this neighborhood are within their rights to petition to not have that billboard in their area. If they complain to the company or city council, within the legal framework and the sign is taken down, I don’t see how that is censorship.
I think the Stuff Muslims Don’t Like list is a fun idea, and agree with the sentiment, but I question if this example is really that big of a deal. There are many people in the world who are tired of the saturation of skin we see every day.
Mattymatt10:
I see your point, however, there is *still* a difference. Petitioning the government and protesting are well within our rights.
The forced submission to Islam that takes place under shari’a law is *not*. Do I agree with everything Christian fundamentalists oppose? No. I like my rum and I like my husband’s nonrhythmic dancing and I like my pants.
But not a one of the Christian fundamentalists I’ve known have decided to violently, forcibly subdue the culture into accepting their version of a theocracy.
Islam has, does, and will continue to do so. Mark my words.
Unless we wake up and start doing something about it.
Salman Rushdie
Maybe you’re aware that observant Jews and Christians also don’t like nearly naked women on billboards. It’s a political issue in Jerusalem.
Hate to break it to you… but yeah, you’re wrong.
Muslims don’t love God. Muslims hate God…
Muslims love Allah, and only Allah.
There might might not be a difference between “God” and “Allah” in your narrowly focused mind, but to muslims they’re as different as heaven and hell.
Multi-culturalism. Liberals. PC run amok. Take your pick.
Actually, I would have to say that Islam was, at least originally, based on the same God. However, like many things, when mankind rules it, it gets perverted in the translation and actual working methods. I am ready to receive a barrage of hate mail for this but my first point would be that not all Christians accept the “fact” of a Triune God. There are a number of Christian beliefs that do not as a matter of fact. Our commonality lies in the fact that we all DO except that the only means for Salvation is through Christ who ransomed his perfect and sinless life for the lives of us who had fallen into and even been brought into the world through sin. The most commonly held “differing” view is that Christ is the first Creation of God and that as such, is a perfect reflection of God. However, I will not attempt to lecture on Theology or open up a debate about Christianity here since that is not the topic of this thread.
However, whatever your personal belief and interpretation of the Bible may be, the Triune God and other “Christian” beliefs was one of the presets for the creation of Islam who believed that the Triune God as established by the “Christian” counsels, was not in accordance with the actual teachings or The Word of God. (Often used in our Greek or New Testament as a reference to the Christ) Other examples were the integration of pagan holidays into religious celebrations in an effort to unite the two factions. (Pagans and Christians)
Islam was initially created as a counter to what would eventually become the Roman Catholic Church. (And no I am not bashing Catholics here) There have been periods in History and throughout the Middle East where Christians and Muslims and Jews all did get along. In fact, in Israel today, there are still many Muslim citizens who enjoy the same rights as any Israeli citizen.
My personal opinion about the current situation is that some of it is based on very traditional and perhaps even fundamentalist thinking. (Remember, the Bible can be used to justify almost any behavior if it is taken out of context or without properly considering all of the references as well) I also think that the ideas fed to the vast majority of Muslims who sided with Hitler during WWII were put to the test and given a new life by the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.
While I am not supporting the Muslim issues (just as I do not support many purportedly Christian issues) and I am certainly not attempting to justify the actions they have taken of late, the facts remain that however skewed people may believe it to be, the original teachings of Islam were indeed based on the same God.
Now I am going to duck in the corner awaiting the onslaught.
We’re headed off on a tangent when we start discussing porn shops and Israeli billboards.
The salient issue is that while most non-Muslims focus on the effects of hypersexualized marketing on children and adolescents, Muslims obsess about the effects on grown (physically, if not emotionally) men.
This is the attitude that allows for sharia to creep up to my doorsteps. While liberals are busy extolling that Islamists aren’t that bad or they can’t possibly accomplish what you “neocons” are saying. Or my favorite – Christians are worse… In the meantime, Canada, Europe, etc… are all becoming Muslim states.
lgm, I think it would behoove you to pull your head out of the sand and take a look around. There have been 11,044 deadly terrorist attacks since 9/11 and Christians haven’t been the perpetrators. You don’t have to agree with conservatives on the danger these Islamists pose because it’s conservative “thang” to believe they are a threat. Your own survival instinct you should be kicking in and bells and alarms should be going off telling you that danger is near. Or have you become so dependent on the government that your self-reliance has dissipated? Because your schtick of being anti-conservative is really getting old.
Good gosh awmighty! Did you drink a cup of common sense finally? First time I ever agreed with anything you’ve ever posted.
I’m going to hate myself for this later, but…
Sausage has a point.
Yeah, I said it.
EQ, as much as I agree with you as well, and that Christians (at least in modern history) have moved away from violence as a means of spreading their word, and Islamofascists use it as their primary means of message delivery., sausage has a point about Christian stances on the subject at hand.
For your reference, I would point out Bob Jones University, and Liberty University, as examples of where these things are not acceptable at all. These are representative of Christian culture, and are the places where they go to educate themselves in a Christian atmosphere. I would believe that they represent things, generally, in these respects, yes?
For reference, this is but a single sample of BJU’s General Residence Hall Policy from their website:
http://www.bju.edu/prospective/expect/rhall.html
Examples:
They are not allowed to use anything other than the campus email. No gmail, no Hotmail, nada.
They are not allowed to have TV, DVD, video devices, or headsets on campus. That nice ipod they got for high school graduation…yeah, better leave that home.
Music, except hymnals, is out. Even Contemporary Christian music is unacceptable.
I’ll let you pour through the entire list of absurd rules for yourself. Same thing can be found on Liberty’s site as well. It still kind of boggles me that people living in a modern society would abide by rules that I personally believe to be…well, rather stuffy.
While i’m certainly no friend to Islam, I certainly have no issue taking christianity to task for its behavior as well. Since I dont have any religious preference and dont worship anything, its not like i’m playing favorites, and i place this post without malice. I’m just calling it as I see it.