Taking on Lego terrorists

Wow. Imagine if these Muslims groups were as vocal in their criticism of actual jihadists as they are in expressing their “disgust” with toy terrorists:
A range of Lego-style fighting figurines – including an Islamic terrorist militant – has sparked outrage among Muslims. The toy mini-figures, made by American Will Chapman, includes a masked terrorist bandit with an assault rifle, grenade launcher and belt of explosives.
Shocked by the playthings, British Muslim organisation the Ramadhan Foundation has branded the figurines “absolutely disgusting”.
Chief executive Mohammed Shafiq said the figures were “glorifying terrorism”.
He said: “I don’t think there’s any difference between someone that shouts hatred through a megaphone and someone that creates a doll that glorifies terrorists.
“As a parent myself, I’m going to teach my children respect for the law and respect for each and every community.
“These are the lessons parents should be giving to their children – not lessons about weapons and violence.”
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The toy firm, BrickArms, is here – but “Mr. White” is now on backorder.
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SAY WHAT? We wouldn’t be having this discussion if the Muslim community were doing so.
“Hey, Joe? It’s been a slow day for us so far.”
“Think we can get outraged about something, Bill? How about teddy bears named Muhammed?”
“Done already and they let the woman live.”
“Hold on…here we go! Legos that look like terrorists!”
“PERFECT! Let me get my bomb vest on and we’ll go express outrage at this!”
unmaksing Mr. White.
You nailed it Michelle with the first sentence.
Riiiight. That precept can be found in which section of the Qu’ran?
So deranged, barbaric, murderous savages are now a “community”? The mind boggles.
Oh no! I ordered one yesterday, I hope it won’t be backordered!
Hey! The LEGO company could sell a companion set of blocks with a design of the twin towers. The marketing potential could be endless as long as Islamic terrorist are around.
I hope these aren’t recalled. I’d love to see an American company actually stand up to Islamic Terrorists and Sharia Law, instead of caving to the PC crowd.
I think those toys would be good for target practice.
Where can I buy them?
“All I want for Christmas…”
These are fantastic – I bet they’ll go well with a model airplane and a couple of cherry bombs.
Light the fuse!
Let’s continue that abstract thought process Einstein- Do you believe there’s any difference between an adult male who rapes a 9 year old girl and an adult male who enters into a contractual marriage with a 9 year old girl and then consumates the union?
The BrickArms website doesn’t say anything about Muslims, Islam, or terrorists (at least on the page selling the “BrickArms Bandit – ‘Mr. White’”). The author of that article is guessing at it.
Here’s a tip: If some Muslims stop looking and acting like terrorists, then people will stop associating toys like this with them.
This is a great quote from the SunTimes columnist Neil Steinberg:
That pretty much sums it up for me.
Under the scarf–is that bill ayers ?
There you go, fixed it for you!
Just one more reason to allow any future kids I have access to my old Lego chest, which I’ve not been able to get rid of.
Lego is a dutch company, as I recall. Good on them.
Besides, lego men are yellow. As my liberal betters inform me, Muslims are categorically “brown” people. They’re mocking a plastic Adam Gadahn.
If we can’t have Lego terrorists, the terrorists have already won.
Mainstream Muslim organizations also condemn real terrorism. Look, for example, at the web site of CAIR.
The organisation which is complaining about this toy itself condemns the Mumbai attacks on the front page of its website. It’s a bit much to complain
when you haven’t even bothered to check the group out.
The fact that a person is Muslim does not mean they support terrorism. While many Muslims do, many do not. Some Christians support the bombing of abortion clinics…many do not. Does no one find the image of young children playing with terrorist dolls slightly disturbing? I certainly wouldn’t want my child to have this toy.
Cair does not condemn terrorism and you are indeed a simpleton if you believe that, but again you believe that abortion mills are bombed by Christian terrorists daily. CAIR also has aims to take away first amendment rights but they do it so slowly that most people don’t notice. Examples are that one can’t be critical of Islam or you are branded as a racist or bigot in doing so.
If only this organization had voiced as much “DISGUST” over the attacks in MUMBAI… If only any MUSLIM GROUP had expressed any “DISGUST” over any MUSLIM TERRORIST ATTACKS… Remember “THERE ARE MANY RELIGIONS IN THE WORLD, BUT ONLY ONE RELIGION OF PEACE”…
We need more of these!! more more more!!
If the toy fits…
Say what? Give us a frikkin break with that okay. They condemn what they support when its politically or economically lucrative to do so.
One opponent to this toy says:
The koran says:
You tell me. Which is worse? Legos, or the koran?
Ha! My little green Army men would kick Lego terrorist ass.
Especially the guy with the flamethrower, he rocked!
On December 5th, 2008 at 9:54 am, lgm said:
That’s the problem, El Dopo: they only “condemn”, they don’t resolve.
Lip-service “condemnation” is easy. “Gettin’ it done” is what actually matters.
Say, does the range include US Rangers, SEALs, Marines and IDF figurines?
Gotta have the good guys too!
I always preferred the bazookaman : )
Dirka dirka Mohammed lego dirka
SCTeacher (#18). I suspect that more of these figures (I don’t think they’re dolls) are bought for adults than children. However, if the kids are already playing with toy soldiers, why not have more choices for them?
Having said that, I don’t plan on buying any for my nephews. (Now for me, after the Christmas rush? … well…)
I suppose the Japanese and Germans would have considered my toy soldier set back in the ’60′s having included German and Japanese soldier figurines with assault rifles, grenades and belts of explosives “absolutely disgusting.”
Hey, my US soldier figurines had to have an enemy to fight and kill, after all.
Lesson about weapons and violence given to children are essential, if done in an appropriate manner, so they know how to deal with each rationally as an adult.
Not every moment will be filled with love, peace and joy in an adult world – unless you live in Obamaland.
Especially in Europe, there have been many radical-Muslim street mob-scenes, composed of protesters holding signs like “Behead those who mock Allah”, and effluent along similar lines.
Question:
Does anyone know of counter-protests, wherein someone holds up a sign saying something like “Allah has sex with donkeys”, or some such?
If so, I’m just wondering to what extent there’s a double-standard reaction by the media, police, etc?
I don’t understand all the fuss. Lego heroes need enemies to fight. I wish I had known about this company sooner; I’d have ordered some cool bricks for my family for CHRISTmas! Well, there’s always birthdays.
CAIR is a trojan horse from the Muslim Brotherhood. Its aim is to pretend to be a human rights advocacy group, but it is an actual propaganda arm using liberal mushheads to undermine the resolve of western civilization.
Viper1 said:
MM said Muslim organizations don’t condemn terror, but they do.
Not disturbing if said terrorist doll is getting his butt kicked by Sergeant Rock.
Not allowed in Western Europe, I believe. Muslims are a protected class there. Anyway, youd’d have to have a death wish doing some such in Europe as it
maymost likely would result in dire consequences courtesy of the Religion of Peace.Yes, that should be the whole point and the proper use of a terrorist figurine.
The bandit figure was cool but I liked the “WW2 German Soldier PanzerGrenadier” much better. I’d like to complain that the US Marine Sergent looks like the weakest out of the bunch.
Fishing with dynamite or grenades works wonders for improving the quantity of ones catch.
Will tossing a few of these babies in the water have the same effect?
GI Joe was a baby-killing rapist in Nam – any correlation?
Ah, he may look weak, but he can kick terrorist butt!
How about a Gitmo detainee figurine just for laughs? CAIR would really howl and the lefty loonies would be beside themselves!
LGM
LOL…CAIR was under investigation for ties to terrorism, and its leaders want sharia law for America.
If you thought Bush was a conservative, wait ’till they see what they’ll have in store for you…the utter death of Western liberalism.
lgm, i have NEVER seen any real muslim protests of this carnage. what religion endorses sending retarded children packed with bomb vests out to be remotely detonated in the name of god. this supposed religion is nothing more than a terrorist organization posing under the disguise of a religion to more easily conquer the the good citizens who want to just get along. if you looked at islam as a foriegn government, it’s activities would lead to war in virtually every nation on earth. but because it says it is a religion, it is afforded a legitimacy it certainly doesn’t deserve.
I’d love to get a few of these Lego terrorists. I’d also like to get a platoon’s worth of U.S. Army Lego men. I’ll use them as teaching aids for when I “teach my children respect for the law and respect for each and every community.” To “love your neighbor” also means to protect them from terrorists, Muslim or otherwise.
I know Michelle said “Lego-style”, but I want to remind you ALL that these are NOT Lego brand toys! It is really sad that Lego is saddled with the blame here. Their company is going to suffer because their name has been linked (pardon the pun!) to this horrendous toy. Please, when referring to this, leave the Lego name out of it. It’s not fair to that company.
All of the figurines are “back-ordered.”
Did anyone else notice the Mr. White is better ‘geared’ than the US fighters?
… and don’t’ those figurines have a shaving kit? I don’t think a Marine Colonel would be caught dead looking that ragged.
What we could use is our own “anti-George Soros”; someone who would purchase 10 million of these things (being strangled by a GI Joe), then pay to have them air-dropped all over Kashmir.
I wonder who it would piss off more, the Taliban/al-Qaeda jihadist birth defects, or the Keith Olbermann nutjobs (?).
I can just see the NY Times headline: “Conservative Hardliner Provokes Muslim Outrage, Entire Nation Now at Risk”.
Happy Scrapper the company is saying they have LEGO parts.
Now I don’t see a copyright or trademark symbol on the site, so it may be them using the name. Seems odd that they would do that considering they are getting tons of press, and have been making this items for some time.
This do appear to be the same as the “Indiana Jones” Figurines.
Indy Figures
With obvious changes.
Our guys only need one shot.
My son says, “Suh-weet!” Ahem. I guess I know what’s on his Christmas list.
Oh…I wasn’t aware of that. If Lego is indeed involved, they should be ashamed.
I was wondering who to give CREDIT to.
Of what?
Um…Maybe I am missing the point here. Isn’t this a rather disgusting use of Legos? I mean, do we want our kids playing with toys made into terrorists? I may have misunderstood the whole thing…it wouldn’t be the first time.
Lego lashes out at figurines
LEGO is not happy about this.
It just keeping getting weirder and weider.
How about some Free Arms? Get them here!
Now that is disgusting.
I like this guy’s Lego depiction of U.S. Soldiers a lot better.
Heroes need a villain. Boys want to play the hero. Often, they grow up to be heroic. Nothing disgusting about that.
I know a boy that collects Legos. He puts the Star wars equipment on Batman. That is a terrorists nightmare, Batman with a light saber.
I guess so. I raised two daughters, so not too familiar with boys! We do have 2 and one-half grandsons now, so I’d better get with the program!!
I’m sure they’ll tell ya, happy. LOL
Oh heavens folks, we wouldn’t want TOYS based on ACTUAL REALITY to be available for purchase now, would we?
There’s no difference between this figure and Lego Joker.
Yes, I understand terrorists are real and that Joker is a fictional white-make up’d sociopathic supervillian.
But sociopathic crime lords do in fact exist, as do terrorists.
Heroes need villians to fight, that is basic toy lore.
I see. So the toys that depict ACTUAL TERRORISTS are “absolutely disgsting, but the REAL Terrorists they remain silent about.
Why is he not going public against those of his faith that have made such a toy possible? In true Islamic fashion, they continue to remain silent about those that have commited over 12,000 separate terrorist acts in the name of Islam since 9-11, and will only speak out against those that call them what they are.
When Muslims begin to rise up, expose all those that they know to be terrorists based on OUR definition of the word, then maybe we should listen and take them seriously. Until then, they should just shut up and return to bowing down to their falsr moon god.
You mean the very same CAIR investigated for supporting terrorism.
Didn’t take lgm long to open his mouth and insert his foot. Par the course for our resident whacko.
Whooo hooo!! I needed a laugh today, had a little too much sauce at a christmas party last night and i’m still paying for it. This lgm guy, there is no way he is for real. He comes in here to joke obviously. If anyone actually believes this, do they mean when CAIR officials are not being indicted and investigated for supporting terror organizations?
That entire quote by Mohammed Shafiq is a parody of itself.
“glorifying terrorism”. What, and you guys don’t? The martyrdom videos, and the posters all over Palestine of murderous thugs who blew themselves up killing others don’t glorify terrorism?
“As a parent myself, I’m going to teach my children respect for the law and respect for each and every community.” O.K., how ’bout you start with the Jews?
“These are the lessons parents should be giving to their children – not lessons about weapons and violence.” Yeah, besides, the madrass will teach them the latter.
These would be way more fun to set on fire than the plastic army men we played with as kids.
frontierguy,
I thought that at first when I noticed lgm several months ago. I now have no doubt that lgm is serious. He goes over to Kos or similar and thinks he sees a really slam-dunk put down on the conservative movement. Then he’ll come over here and drop his little “coup de grâce”. His points and method of delivery or so juvenile and shallow. When others try to engage him he does not respond. Every now and then, he’ll have a follow up post or two, but it doesn’t matter. They’re all empty words, hypocrisy, non sequiturs, or just bizarre. It’s as if he thinks, “this will get them” and hits the submit button. He probably thinks he can singlehandedly bring down conservatism. I know that he cares about how people react to him because several times he has remarked about people insulting him. lgm is not trying to be outrageous or funny; he is trying to be “cool” and to be king-of-the-hill. Instead he comes of as immature, unoriginal. He is supposedly a math teacher and refers to himself as a “technical person”. I know he is really proud of that and has probably fallen into the intelligence trap
It wouldn’t be surprising if he also suffers from Asperger’s syndrome
Anyway… that’s my take on him.
I can’t make up my mind whether lgm should stay or go (up to Michelle). For a long while I wished that he would be banned because of his annoying posts. Now, I find myself looking for his posts. It’s like watching a really stupid movie – so stupid that it is fascinating.
I’m up late (3:30am CST) because I’m afraid to go to sleep. I had sinus surgery today and I just don’t know how sleep will work tonight. I guess I should try.
Cool, I want a few for Christmas to go with my Shipwreck G.I. Joes!
GSP
“This is Sparta!”
Hope ou got some rest Jet.
Oh, no doubt. Everyone hates the real terrorists. We just don’t all agree on who the real terrorists are.
When conservatives condemn terrorists, they generally mean Al Q’aeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, et al.
When progressives condemn terrorists, they mean Big Oil CEOs, parents who homeschool their children and anyone who drinks water from a disposable platic bottle.
When muslims condemn terrorism, they mean Israelis, the American military, immodest women (who don’t wear chadris) and homosexuals.
But yes, we all hate the real terrorists. That’s a trivial point.
CAIR’s website is illegal. In fact, CAIR itself is illegal.
That’s right: in a legal sense, CAIR no longer exists.
The only actions in which CAIR can legally engage involve dissolving the organization and distributing its assets.
Whatever will witless dhimmis who cite CAIR as a prime example of moderate islam do?