Apple’s ‘Mecca Project’ provokes Muslim reaction

“On October 10, 2006, an Islamic website posted a message alerting Muslims to what it claims is a new insult to Islam. According to the message, the cube-shaped building which is being constructed in New York City, on Fifth Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets in midtown Manhattan, is clearly meant to provoke Muslims. The fact that the building resembles the Ka’ba, is called ‘Apple Mecca,’ is intended to be open 24 hours a day like the Ka’ba, and moreover, contains bars selling alcoholic beverages, constitutes a blatant insult to Islam. The message urges Muslims to spread this alert, in hope that ‘Muslims will be able to stop the project,'” The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reports in an article dated October 11, 2006.

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
SJ on a popsicle st… This is a joke, right?

Apple Store Fifth Avenue opened as a destination, a “mecca,” if you will, meaning only “a place that attracts people of a particular group or with a particular interest” and we mean nothing else by the use of the word “mecca” — in fact, we’re sorry we used it already, but we did so only because the MEMRI story used the word and, oh, we used it once in a headline for the Apple Store Fifth Avenue. Let’s just forget about that one, okay?

As we were saying, the Apple Store Fifth Avenue opened as a destination on May 6, 2006, so it’s too late to “stop the project,” by which we mean no disrespect. The “Genius Bars” contained (below ground, not in the cube) within the retail store dispense Macintosh computer advice, when not being overrun with generally clueless iPod owners: NO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ARE SERVED (to customers, that we know of, not including ourselves – don’t ask).

The Apple Store Fifth Avenue is not “a new insult to Islam” nor is it “clearly meant to provoke Muslims.” Instead, it is meant a paean to the cube, as the perfect form or whatever the hell, sorry… heck, Steve Jobs thinks it is – even though the perfect form is a sphere (again, we mean no disrespect to Islam; or Jobs for that matter; in fact, we’re probably wrong about the sphere… Yeah, we’re definitely wrong). You see, Jobs has a serious love of cubes (see NeXT Cube, Power Mac G4 Cube), you might even call it a cube fetish… uh… or not… um, never mind.) and it is clearly meant ONLY to provoke retail sales for Apple products (and those products from certain chosen ones, you know, like Belkin, Bose, etc.) to all people, including Muslims.

Jobs, we hope this is a joke, by which we mean no disrespect to anyone if it isn’t. No disrespect whatsoever.

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266 Comments

      1. Why you keep repeating yourself? You do know that if Islamic terrorist continue down the path they are on now the US, UK, Australia, Russia and others will eradicate every trace of Islam from the face of the earth. Look at modern history and each world war, the only people who can defeat white people in war are MORE white people lol now ask yourself what happens when every single one of these countries come together with a shared goal/cause.

        You think the West is going to risk a nuclear weapon falling into the hands of a Islamic state that isn’t under our own control? I bet we are already working on a genetically modified bacteria or virus that targets people of a specific ethnicity by looking for specific genes that are common in those people. They could make this virus or bacteria not “kill” but rather sterilize men or make the females infertile. I’m sure they could make a vaccine that gets delivered to people of our nations who might be “high risk” for having genes that may be effected by this weapon so they will be injected so they’re immune and won’t have to worry about this weapon.

        Not a single person will have to die with this weapon so people won’t really mind because it’s better than guns or bombs killing. We will just let nature take its course and you won’t be able to reproduce and you will fade off the face of this earth just like your religion lol it’s not “if” this happens or something similar it’s “when” so enjoy your time laughing because all we have to do is infect one Muslim on his way to Mecca and the thing will spread quicker that your mothers legs

    1. Piss be upon him and let it wash him like a true sinner. Give him a R-Kelly baptism lol

      Who can beat white people in war? Other white people… Muslims will be removed from this earth and it will make Hitlers agenda look like child’s play when it happens

    2. I curse you to the deepest part of hell.
      And burn you in the furious furnance.
      May Allah freeze your running blood in your vain…
      And u die and didn’t receive funeral.
      AMEEN
      You invoked jesus god too…
      Curse on you.

    1. why every year millions of american cristian bastards are becoming MUSLIM but not a single muslim is changing his/her religion …. ??
      and what are you talking about … Jessus crist ???? ha ha ha lol! there is no man in this world called jessus crist. he is our prophet Hazrat Issa Allah-lahu-alaiusallam . u bastards named him jessus crist ….

  1. What’s with all of the apology and “no disrepect” crap? All they simply had to say was that it was not mocking Islam, as any sane, intelligent person would know. The part about the bars cracks me up, I guess that’s our confusing English language, haha. But why does MDN sound like they’re tyring to suck up?

  2. Lets go all you hackers, Target the Islam Websites and put pictures of the G4 cube on them and say ” YOU HAVE BEEN CUBED!!” or somthing retarded.

    i expect a news report about ilsam websites being hacked in 3 days….

      1. This is what Islam is
        Whom ever what ever want u do..we r never afraid of such things we just say they are fool who r foolig their self by doing all this shits..because they knw tht what ever we do there will me not at all a matter towards Islam…Islam is a religion of peace
        And insha allah apple will soo. Get distroy by his own foolishness….

  3. Silly.

    Will someone tell the majority moderate Muslims to speak up and call these fundamentalist, over zealous guys that they are keeping Islam in the stone age while the rest of the world has modernized. These guys have to understand that they are going to always look like the bad guys when Bhuddist protest peacfully at Muslims blowing up ancient holy statues in Afghanistan while Muslims kill people over cartoons. Let’s just hope no one dies over this silliness.

  4. This is a perfect example of the mentality that the West is up against. Now the muslims are offended by cubes? Come on! I’m sure the left will be out in force soon, defending the muslims point of view and finding a way to blame this on Bush.

    Honestly, this isn’t funny. My cousin works in that store. Is she gonna have to start worrying about going to work?

  5. The genuine forgiveness and tolerance shown by the Amish after the school tragedy, is a great lesson to all. The building is not as important as the goodness it inspires in hearts of the believer. I hope the readers on that site will think before acting.

  6. no need for that kind of article in MDN, i read MDN everyday and i am a Muslim. Mister MDN you don’t need to get into that kind of news, it is a useless news, done by people that don’t have anything else to do with their lives. I am a proud Muslim and Apple fan since the Mac Plus!!!

    Peace to all !!! (and not piss)

  7. This article and the comments that followed remind me of the whole outsourcing article… both of these have shown that Mac users can been the biggest “dickbags” (that’s for you WHAT). You would think that as a Mac user who is a minority some of you would be a little more tolerent or at least intelligent about your comments.

  8. it all originates from some presumably dumb PC-apologist (Mark Morford – mmorford@sfgate.com) who has written about this in his blog half a year ago (April 10 2006 at 09:17 AM)… a guy who obvious envies the mac and tries to insult mac users by calling them vodka drinking gays teens and German fetish porn addicts; hoping for some action and reaction! (he must have a problem i guess…)

    (BTW: he also writes about other things on his blog – Hot car porn in Paris, Sex toys for good Christians, The next great iPod vibrator?, Lactating Mothers of the Apocalypse)

    quote:

    All kneel before the holy holy

    picture of apple’s cube with link to gizmodo.com
    image capture: All come. All kneel. All touch the holy magic. Then please buy two iPods and a MacBook. Praise!

    It’s being dubbed Apple Mecca, a new and very huge (a whopping 25,000 square feet), mostly underground Apple store in midtown Manhattan, for how its above-ground entrance bears an uncanny resemblance to the big black Ka’bah (AKA: The House O’ Abraham) to whence all Islamic pilgrims take their grueling mandatory hajj and also because it shall be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and hence shall be the place New Yorkers shall take a holy pilgrimage whenever they crave a new iPod Nano at 4:00 am or when they desperately need to have the Mac geeks at the Genius Bar instruct them on how to purge all the gay teen chat transcripts and German fetish porn from their iBooks before their Senate confirmation hearings.

    picture of Ka’bah from wikipedia.org
    image capture: Similar but, you know, different

    As if the cool and disturbing and telling and sexy and weird (in equal turns) iPod vending machines springing up in airports and at Macy’s weren’t enough. Mecca is rising at 5th and 59th in midtown Manhattan, and will also be the first Apple store to offer a full-sized iPod Bar which, presumably, will serve pink iPods blended with vodka.

    Makes the downtown SF Apple flagship, at only 10,800 square feet, seem sort of meek and small and boring, no?

    source: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=4203

    he’d obvious seen some pics on flickr with the headline:

    Apple’s “mecca” begins to be unveiled

    in the comments some guy (mr.thorn) asks:

    is the title you gave this pic a deliberate pun? cuz that building sure does look an awful lot like the Ka’bah at the center of Mecca! ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” />

    the flick-guy who has posted the image (bhaggs) answers:

    Mr.Thorn: Yes, it was a deliberate pun. The parallel is uncanny though. But that’ll change once the wood paneling comes.

    source: http://flickr.com/photos/bhaggs/124900112/

    so dear muslims… focus your anger where it belongs and get a clue for once in your lives. we danes are so tired of your childish and ignorant attitudes. grow up. do some research. get educated and get on with your lives. you’re giving the islam a bad reputation…. think different. ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”blank stare” style=”border:0;” />

  9. I AM A MUSLIM…. AND I NEED TO GET MY MESSAGE ACROSS, SO PLEASE EXCUSE THE SHOUTING.

    THERE IS NOTHING TO STRESS ABOUT. NOTHING TO BE OFFENDED ABOUT. THE FACT IS, THAT AS WITH ALL THINGS, THERE ARE ALWAYS A MINORITY HANDFULL OF IGNORANT PEOPLE THAT GET OFFENDED FOR NO REASON, AND GET SENSITIVE OVER THE PRISSIEST OF THINGS.

    UNFORTUNATELY, THE MEDIA NOWADAYS LOVES TO REPORT THESE THINGS, AS THE MAJORITY MUSLIM OPINION.

    NO WAY JOSAY.

    I AM NOT OFFENDED. MY FAMILY IS NOT OFFENDED. MOST EVERYONE I KNOW WILL NOT BE OFFENDED….

    BUT THERE WILL BE ONE MUSLIM SCHOOL-DROP-OUT THAT WILL GET THE EMAIL AND MASS MAIL IT TO ‘MOST EVERYONE HE KNOWS, KNOWING NOTHING OF THE TOLERANCE THAT IS FUNDAMENTAL TO ISLAM.

  10. Thanks for the comment, Peter.

    And yes, I came to the same conclusion – Apple had, prior to completion, a black temporary exterior on the building. The stupid SFGate article you mention got repeated nearly verbatim on CNet, along with the photo of the building (with black covering) in progress.

    And the hate-mongering ensued.

    This is all old news, with the exception of its being published on this “MEMRI” site.

    In the meantime, could everyone please cool their jets? Give me a break with the insulting posts. Are any adults reading this?

    Oh, sorry, I forgot. Adults still often confuse “different” with “insulting” and decide that “hate” and “death” must follow.

    And yes, that includes ALL the radicals on every side of nearly every issue. When you can no longer see any colors besides black or white – when you see no possibility of something being between right and wrong – you are an extremist.

    Peace. (crosses fingers, awaits moronic flames anyway)

  11. Billy, of course you are right. There are always those that take offense.

    The problem for us is – the media can now misrepresent that offense as universal. And some more people may read it – instantaneously, thanks to the internet and global news.

    And eventually, enough people might believe it really is a big deal. And then everyone (on both sides) starts the hate cycle all over again.

    And it all came from some idiot blogger – NOT APPLE! Apple’s crime – covering a cube in black. The blogger (as best I can see) created the whole “mecca” comparison, etc.

    In any case, the truly unfortunate result of Sep. 11 is that now many people feel that it only takes one of that “minority handful” of people who are offended to commit some heinous act of violence.

    THAT is the real legacy of terrorism.

    And on that note, I’m going to bed…

  12. Sexually repressed, hypocritical, myopic, self-centered, brain-washed, gullible, sheeple with zero clue.

    But enough about the Christian Right, we were talking about Muslims.

    <rimshot>

    Thanks folks, I’ll be here all week and The Riviera 8:30pm & 10:30pm Tuesday through Sunday.

  13. Mandatory Ebola…. ’tis also true about the Muslim right, and the Jewish right..

    Hell, I was surprised when I was in a Bhuddist temple in Penang, and met a Bhuddist priest who also fit that mold.

    People will be people I’m afraid.

  14. Billy Ash,

    Of course.

    But in 2006 America, there is more to fear on a day to day and long-term basis from the Christian (Wrong) than any Islamists, Zionists or, er, um, Buddhists. ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />

    But hey, like ancient Rome, keep the troops perpetually busy at the outskirts, so they aren’t sitting around at home and start getting any funny ideas (Thailand 2006).

    Anyone catch the article about the Pentagon complaining that Humvees use too much gasoline? Oh that’s rich on so many levels…</digression>

  15. Let’s face it, these people use and and every opportunity to play the Western media like a fine musical instrument, and this is no exception.

    There is no end to self-perceived ‘insults’ when you can create and use every one of them to gain supporters.

  16. (With apologies to Supertramp)

    Someday I hope the Middle East and SW Asia will be a peaceful and prosperous place where people can get along about as well as anywhere else. Sadly, that is not the case currently.

    It’s not just the Jews and Muslims that cannot get along (in general, not everybody, O.K.?). Different flavors of Muslims dislike each other, different flavors of Jews dislike each other, different flavors of Christians dislike each other, different clans dislike each other, different ethnicities dislike each other. OMG.

    Then the claims and rights. My great, great, great, great, great grandfather shat on your front lawn back in the day, or we were here first, or you killed my ancestor or whatever. Go figure the chances for peace.

    I’m pretty sure that grace and mercy figure into the Christian, Muslim and Jewish faiths. I’m also sure that most smaller sects, agnostics and atheists also re kind of fond of the concept of grace. Why doesn’t everybody just forget who did what to who and who was here before who and kind of get along for the betterment of the neighborhood?

    My solution to the Middle East is to put up Wind Farms, Solar Farms, etc and forget the whole lot of them. Let them choke on their oil. 100 square miles of solar panels could power the US at current levels without any Nuclear, Wind, Hydro, Coal, Oil, etc. We can make BioDiesel out of switch-grass at a yield many times that of soybeans, corn, etc.

    The technology is ready. For what we have spent on BushCo’s fiasco in Iraq we could be well on our way. Now it’s just money and lives down the drain.

  17. MDN! Why do you apologize?

    I never apologize to paranoic and aggressive religious fundamentalists.

    Whether they be Christian (and there’re more than enough of those in the USA) Muslim, Jewish, Hindu or whatever.

    Don’t grovel to the religious fundamentalists. Whatever their religion, they are the cause of wars, terror, incarceration, and torture.

    They are the scum of the world.

  18. Rights, Rights Your Bloody Well Rights

    Have you been to the Middle East?

    Have you met the people there?

    I think that you would be surprised. Generally the people there are far more grounded, and unassuming then the average American (certainly Briton)

    The problem, is that the only experience most Western people have of the Middle East, is the flash points.

    You’ve gotta look at the sh!t going on at home. Race riots, gang wars, drug crimes, rapes, muggings…and most of these are for really petty or materialistic reasons.

    At the end of it, there are always good people, there are always bad people, there are always people that will manipulate events to further their own agenda. There are always people that will do acts of good, with no credit or publicity.

    These people exist in all parts of the world.

    We are the same as them, they are the same as us.

    Until you understand that, then you are lost.

    I’m bailing out of this conversation now. I’ve been in these before. It always spirals into a horrible intolerant ugly mess.

    Peace, and a new 24″ iMac to you all!

  19. If I was a muslim I would be offended by idiot fanatics that are turning my religion into crap and the mockery of the all world. Can anyone be more fscking stupid and moronic to just utter such crying idiocy and post it in web sites to incite other fanatic idiots to go and maybe put a bomb there?

    When all *other* muslims will get tired of the fscking idiots that are LITERALLY shitting on their OWN religion? Do yourself a favor, put your fanatics out of this world if you respect your own religion. This is really ludicrous.

    Could you blame Westerns people if they truly believe muslim are all blood thirsty idiot fanatic not deserving anything but frontal lobotomy?

    With such examples don’t be surprised some extreme right wing party gets elected one day out of utter repulsion and vote a law to extradite all muslims to their country of origin, disregarding whether or not they have acquired citizenship. It is enough to declare them by law “undesired and harmful persons”. There or concentrations camps.

    Beware, fanatisms soon or later triggers extreme reactions. If you seed and spread hatred, soon you’ll be hated too.

  20. Hi,

    Im a muslim too. But Im not offended with the design of new Mac Store.

    I believe one u should get the essence of these terms. For example ‘Mecca’ means a revered place and it can be used else where to represent a revered place, in this case for Mac users. Another word which come to my mind is ‘Guru’ which is of an indian origin, which means a holy person, but the essence here is someone expert in his/her field which is how its used every where.

    My request to all muslims out there, not make this an issue.

  21. One More Thing

    I have written to the website authors…as a muslim.

    So quit your yapping.
    ————————–

    Dear Sirs

    I am writing about your article regarding Apple’s so called Mecca Project.

    http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD131506

    Not only is the original source factually incorrect, it is also devisive and trouble causing.

    In your article it states “The fact that the building resembles the Ka’ba (see picture below), is called “Apple Mecca,” is intended to be open 24 hours a day like the Ka’ba, and moreover, contains bars selling alcoholic beverages, constitutes a blatant insult to Islam.”

    The building does not resemble the Ka’ba at all, other than it’s cuboid. The final building, unveilied a few months ago is actually a glass structure, reflecting the fact that Steve Jobs, the Apple founder, is fond of cubeoid geometry. The picture you have on your website is the pre-unveiled building, which had black-plastic, in order to facilitate the construction of the glass building.

    It is not called “Apple Mecca”, in any formal or official sense.

    The fact that is sells alcohol is not an insult to Islam, as the building itself is not a reference to Islam.

    I would hope that you would realise that re-printing such an inaccurate statement as this is equivelant to the type of low-life reporting that outlets like Fox-news, and the National Enquirer get up to.

    There should be a level of responsibility on your part, to both check the accuracy of what you are reporting, and also to realise that this kind of reporting is inciteful, hateful, and certainly dangerous.

    I would kindly request that you either remove this inciteful article from your website, or at least include a prominant disclaimer pointing out that the original source is wrong on many counts, innaccurate, and misleading.

    Kindest Regards

  22. These people need to actually try out OSX! the eye candy will please them and they will be happier! And if they work on their website on a Mac, this extended exposure to OSX will inspire them to more positive thoughts, love and peace!

    Try out the Mac Mini for starters and use your existing monitor,keyboard and mouse or as I would recommend, jump right in with an iMac 20″. This will greatly enchance productivity and joy!

    This is type of over reaction is frankly embarassing to the Muslim religion, you’all know Oct 10 is smack in the middle of the Ramadan month? from wikipeadia ” … most venerated, blessed and holiest month. Prayers, fasting, self-accountability and charity have special association with Ramadan. The religious observances of Ramadan occur throughout the entire Islamic (Lunar) calendar month” AKA not supposed to be a vengeful time.

  23. I want to thank you Billy Ash for making an effort to inform the website about their innacuracies and speaking out on this forum. Whenever a story like this is published some of us Christians react by condemning all Muslims but voices like yours bring us back to reality. Like you there must be countless Muslim Apple users who appreciate the Apple Store Fifth Avenue as an example of modern architecture and do not view it as an insult to your faith.

  24. NEW YORK, October 4 — A public school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square, a slide rule, and a calculator.

    At a morning press conference, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement.

    He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction. “Al-gebra is a problem for us,” Gonzales said. “They desire solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values.

    They use secret code names like ‘x’ and ‘y’ and refer to themselves as ‘unknowns’, but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer, Isosceles, used to say, ‘There are 3 sides to every triangle’.”

  25. It is time to for us to pay attention to the fact that we are facing an enemy that hates our entire civilization. It does not matter what we do. They can not be reasoned with. They will not stop until we submit to their insane version of religion or they are Xterminated.

  26. Sol,
    yeah, throwing stones at the devil ends the ceremony. However, given the current state of mind of the average NYPD officer and the new legislative measures approved by Congress, this is something I won’t dare.
    I mean, I’d love to visit Cuba one day (sans Fidel, I may add), but Guantanamo is not on my list of sights to see, at least not from the inside.

  27. Charles:

    You failed to include the religion of atheism espoused by Communism that has killed many more people than all other religions combined.

    Stalin’s regime killed approximately 20,000,000 persons. Some estimate more than 66,000,000 deaths.

    Red China killed approximately 100,000,000 persons.

    Pol Pot’s regime killed more than 25% of the entire Cambodian population or approximately 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 deaths.

  28. Billy,

    Although most muslims are most likely peaceful, the bottom line is that Islam is the only religion that condones/approves killing people based on their beliefs. If you leave Islam, your fellow Muslims can kill you. Thats crazy!!! And if you kill “infidels” you’ll get 72 virgins in the afterlife. Once again… CRAZY!!!.

    If was a muslim, i would want 72 thirty-something hot sluts waiting for me. Virgins don’t know what to do.

    Killing people because they have different beliefs if fucking ignorant and can’t be tolerated after the 4th century.

  29. WTF? I’m tired of hearing about “offending Islam!” We also offended Islam by stopping Flight 93 from hitting the White House.
    I respect every religion and people’s right to believe whatever, but Islam has gotten out of hand.
    The Pope quotes something from old text about Islam being violent and, go figure, Muslims become violent in protest.
    I hope the world eventually has enough and puts Muslims back in their place, which is, one of MANY religions, NOT the one religion that will eventually dominate.
    As long as Muslims can put cartoons out offending Christians and Jews, I think it’s ok to put cartoons out of people pissing on Mohammed.
    Enough is enough already.

  30. Why aren’t the Christians offended at the Apple cube store since the Bible described heaven as a cube (I think figuratively, not literally) 700 years before M’med came on the scene (Revelation 12:16 – the last page of the last book).

    Plus the Bible’s cube is about 12,000 football stadiums wide on each side! Kind of dwarfs Apple’s store and the Kaba. Unfortunately the Muslims will never get to see that cube and they certainly cannot blow it up.

    Apple, please keep building cubes – they look heavenly.

  31. Repost, for the retarded:

    Look up the word “satire” if you’re questioning why MDN apologizes so profusely in their “take.”

    Here, I’ll help you ‘tards:

    satire |ˈsaˌtīr| noun the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. See also wit.

  32. More proof that people make claims without doing their homework..stupdiasses.

    These “peoples” lives are all about being OFFENDED..well guess what…I’m f*cking offended by their blatant stupidity in the fact they don’t do their basic simple homework and can’t see anything outside their selfish selves… I’m offended that they “BUY” into their religious crap!!…I would bet 99.9999% that their “after existence” is NOTHING like they were TOLD or will experience. Do they even know how BIG the universe is? What if Aliens came down and said..”Hello..we are from your local neighboring galaxy Andromeda..have crossed time and space to meet you…”

    …and they would get offended. Anything that is NOT THEM is offending..stupidassed Muslim religion.

    It’s true..you don’t see Catholics (not so historically innocent themselves) Jews, Christians, Buddhists..getting all bent out of “shape”…over a shape!.

    Stupdiasses..I’m so tired of these stupid-assed religions. No one is going to rescue you. No one is going to SAVE you. No GOVERNMENT is going to save you either..

    A good example of these “Critical thinkers/readers” is on a discussion regarding a “found” orb. People just dont read or wonder about anything.

  33. Perhaps if the Ottoman Empire had survived the world would be a much different place. And perhaps the face of Islam would be much more serene. As it is, despite the fact that the majority of Muslims could care less about the cause of the radical zealots, the radical zealots are the face of Islam to much of the world.

    God save us, I don’t know if there is any strategy or policy that will fix the arising from all of this.

    If there was a centralized authority among the Muslims then this would be a lot easier. We need to learn some lessons from history. Machiavelli’s “The Prince” still holds a lot of truisms, but it must be aplied correctly.

    We should rid ourselves of all Middle Eastern oil, one way or another. Completely pull out of there, and then let them beat the crap out of each other until there is one controlling group then we can negotiate with that new state and then form real relationships. Ala, unification of China, Japan, Italy, the U.K., U.S. Civil War, etc… But the world populace with the eyes of the media are way too squemish for that.

    Horrible? Yes. Effective and true, YES. History has proven it.

  34. Most americans realize that most musilims are peaceful… That is not why we are disgusted with their religion…. we are disgusted because when fanatics are killing people in their God’s name, and for their religion…. they do nothing about it. You don’t see them standing up and protesting the terrorists. You don’t see them supporting us after 9/11, all you see is a willingness to say nothing and to not care.

    Then we find out that there is clauses in the Koran that DO tell them they should kill anyone who is not Muslim, and what are they supposed to do? It is against their religion NOT to kill us! Somethingi needs to happen. Something big.

  35. Here we go again.

    Look…all Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Taoists, Christian Scientists, 3rd Adventists, Hindu-ists, Jews, Shintos, VooDoo-ists, Sikhists, Druists, Wiccans, and Atheists…HERE ME OUT:

    I did not create religion, you did.

    Its not my mess to clean-up, its yours.

    I’m not telling anyone to kill in my name, you are doing that.

    The sooner you all realize any of this, the sooner you all be able to get along. Because you see…in the beginning, I created the Heavens and the Earth. It was not until humans started roaming around that religion was created.

    I knew it would be trouble from the beginning.

    I don’t require that you have religions, or that your “praise” and/or “worship” me. I certainly don’t require that you build temples in my name either. IN FACT, I REQUIRE NOTHING.

    I’m God, why would I require anything? Everything YOU have is because of me…do you see the irony?

    In conclusion…everybody just relax and open your eyes. I was at the 5th Ave. store the other day…that place is friggin’ great.

  36. Everything offends these pschos. By their silence, so-called moderate muslims are supporting the terrorists and make the rest of the wold believe that they’re all nuts.

    To the liberal jack asses. Stop throughing out red herrings by bringing up communism, Christians, etc. We’re talking about the insane religion of Islam here. Stay on topic dirt bags.

  37. By their silence, so-called moderate muslims are supporting the terrorists

    ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! Really… “Moderates” say constantly that Islam is peaceful and tolerant, etc. But none of them are doing anything about the fundamentalists.

  38. Funny how it takes a direct hit on Apple to get most of the usual terrorist apologist that frequent this board to stand down. Is it going to take a nuke to your nearest city to get you on the right program too? Figure it out Islam is very, very, evil and bad. They won’t stop until we’re all dead or converted and turned into their slaves. Only one way to stop them. Thank god for the US and the smart half that want to take the fight to these lunatics and not sit back and try to not offend them and hope they stop bothering us. New flash, they won’t stop bothering us no matter what we do.

  39. These fanatics are always looking for an excuse to kill or blow something up. I hate them all.

    If there are peaceful ones they had better start sticking up for themselves and their religion. When the Born Again Christians are overboard on an issue I certainly, as a Christian, have no problem telling them they are out of line. Grow a backbone peaceful Muslims! Reclaim your religion from these murderous nut cases!

    John Lennon had it right–“Imagine no religion, it’s easy if you try, nothing to kill or die for.” He also predicted Christianity would go. And if we don’t buy a clue he might be right about THAT one too!

    A war for oil makes more sense than any religious war. Our country can’t (unfortunately) function without oil, it’s in everything we use and do. Religion is just a belief. Everyone is entitled to theirs and leave others alone in PEACE!

  40. Even if this is a resurrected comment from before the thing was built, others don’t know that so the comments are now given new life. This is scary stuff (if actually true). I am one of the few people who actually read the Pope’s original speech that provoked all that reaction. I understood it as an academic talk to academics. Clearly, people with little or no education (or those who choose to ignore theirs) had no clue about what he was talking about. I saw no offense in it. And I obviously see no “offense” in this cube thing. I’m also getting tired of hearing mainline Muslims simply ignore this kind of thing as part of the “radical” or “extremist” group. Clearly, there are enough of them in high enough places to be considered Islamists. And I’m disgusted with it. Disgusted with Islam itself will not be far behind if this continues. The “real” “mainline” Muslims need to fix this now – or their religion has been hijacked to where we can only consider the “extremists” mainline and make judgements of them generalize to all of Islam. This has become disgusting and scary and I’m sick and tired of the western world kowtowing to Islam.

  41. I am a Muslim. And I am not offended by the design of Apple store. It has nothing to do with the design of the Ka’ab. The shape is very very common and you can see it all around you.
    Plus, if you click on the full article link it will take you to the article which claims that ….”an Islamic website posted a message alerting….” without any reference or a link to that website. So I doubt the credibility of such news or article and I think it is a lie.

    Thanks.

  42. MEMRI is a pro-Zionist propaganda organisation that exists to keep pressure on the US Government to keep up foreign aid to Israel, which – because of the whole End of Days thing – is way too easy to do.

    This was a non-story in July, when SFGate first published the satire in question and it’s a non-story now.

    The only difference is that we’re nearing an election and MDN is rabble-rousing to get the redneck, never met an Arab Republican vote out on 11/7.

  43. I’m tired of hearing about the whining of Muslims! Everything they see or hear seems to be an excuse to complain about something which is usually about nothing. If everyone in the world were like them there would be no world because we would be complaining to much and killing each other to even build it! If you don’t like it no one is forcing you to go in or even near the store. If you don’t like the U.S. go home!

  44. This is obviously a Microsoft plot to slow the sales of iPods and Macs. They want Americans to stop going to Apple Stores because there might be terrorist attacks at Apple Stores.

    Microsoft will use anything and anybody in the war for cyberdomination.

  45. This article is crap and old. I’m a Saudi and a Muslim and this goes back to when the store was about to open. I think a SF newspaper started it, they posted the picture of the cube when it was covered in black to hide it and called it the Apple Mecca. Some idiot Muslims who know nothing but hate used it to claim that its an insult to Muslims and and is made like the kabba. however that died as fast as it started after the store was reveled. I remember I was asked at the time about this from my Saudi friends and after they saw the new picture of the glass cube and I explained the meaning of mecca in English they thought nothing of it.
    I don’t know why this is being brought back after so long. The only people behind this are either idiot Muslims or none-Muslim racesest people just to fuel hate and anger in the world as if we don’t have enough.

  46. Just in case this thing spreads:

    –If you own a Rubix Cube, you need to get rid of it NOW. GeeeHaaad is next on that cube!

    –And the small size Kleenex box. That’s worth a cube shaped war if I ever saw one.

    –Better hope your home ice-maker creates the half moon cubes. Alcohol can not be consumed in relation to a cube. Off with your head in mid-slurp of favorite adult beverage.

    –Also, EVERY chocolate covered carmel in your “Fanny Farmer” candy box must go! They are always cube shaped–chocolate is turd color and that’s a damn insult.

    –Let’s hope they think the M$ XBox is cube shaped.
    GEEEEEEHAAAAD!

    MDN magic word: LEADERS as in World leaders wake the “f” up!

  47. Slamming religions & suggestions of bombing people? A retail store that offends religious fanatics?? Is this really a Mac News-related website? Someone will always be offended by something said or done by someone else. It’s impossible to please everyone. I just miss the days when we used to slam Microsoft for peddling crap software instead of making a Mac-related news site a forum for armchair sociologists and historians to vent. MDN: Perhaps you should consider a politics/religion-oriented discussion board for people who actually give a flying rat’s a$$ about this sort of thing.

  48. it’s funny that the liberals on here are calling religous people “self centered” and a number of other hateful things. I guess everyone should just drop religion and start acting like all the Hollywood liberals on that oh so moral highground that’s called California.

    Trying to rationalize that there’s no right and wrong just so you can do whatever you want and not be considered “wrong” is self centered.

    People roaming around with no greater purpose and no sense of morality will be the end of the world.

  49. Extremists exist in all forms, everywhere. And these extremists are really off the deep end. They are grasping for anything they can to spread their hatred. They HAVE been…for some time. We (as a nation and a society), along with the TRUE Muslims, should stop them in their tracks. And when I say stop them in their tracks, I mean we need to NOT TAKE THIS KIND OF CRAP ANYMORE. These people will stop at nothing to destroy peace and the world as we know it. And all the sheeple that don’t believe that should go live in one of THEIR countries for a while. I still cannot believe that this is even a news story. HOW RIDICULOUS DO THEY HAVE TO GET BEFORE WE START TO JUST TAKE THEM OUT (BEFORE THEY DESTROY EVERYTHING OF OURS)?!? Duh, people!

  50. PS: I find it hard to believe that the extremists can call themselves members of the RELIGION OF PEACE. The REAL members of the Religion of Peace need to stand up and shout (as a few of them have on here) and start denouncing the others. (Of course they probably won’t, for fear of getting their heads removed.)

  51. Muslims bitch about everything. All you dumbass muslims stfu. YOUR RELIGION IS BULLSHIT BASED ON AN EPILEPTIC DUMBASS THAT SAID HIS BULLSHIT CAME FROM GOD TO KEEP FROM GETTING HIS ASS KILLED BY THE SUPERSTITIOUS DUMBASSES IN THE 5TH CENTURY. so shut the fuck up you ignorant motherfuckers. go back to your cube er ka’ba or w/e and worship it. wtf is in the damn box anyway that you need to go bend over to it? muslims are tools of satan if you ask me. muslims are worse than rednecks on meth.

  52. MDNews, have some balls. Don’t apologize to Muslims. Fuck them. Hell, I’m offended at them covering up their women, beheading people, generally bringing down the total intelligence level down to around the BC level.

  53. I am fuckin sick and tired of muslim fundamentalists being offended at the smallest stupidest things, If some much of our western ways offend you, that fine, fuck of back to some muslim state somewhere, where you will be happy and i and the rest of the civilised world dont need to listen to your shite any more.

  54. @Bloo…
    “I guess everyone should just drop religion and start acting like all the Hollywood liberals on that oh so moral highground that’s called California.”

    Actually… having lived in CA for most of my life I beg to differ. You might be surprised to learn that the vast majority of the state is independent politically and not far left or right. CA is politically left in two places, San Francisco and LA.

    San Diego and Orange County (south) are politically right. The rest of the state doesn’t really care and votes fairly independently.

    MDN word is “miles” as in I have to drive miles and miles to find the political fringe in California.

  55. The BLACK one has some resembless, but the glass one has even less, or NONE. NEVER would have thought about it at all, unless it was brought up.

    Sexually repressed, hypocritical, myopic, self-centered, brain-washed, gullible, sheeple with zero clue.

    But enough about the Christian Right

    Damm– at first I just didn’t think…I shot my Gamecube because I thought it was the right thing to do.
    Is it right for all these poeple to HATE, and then act like the problem is OTHER PEOPLE?

  56. There is no God, period.

    Personification, and reification of phenomena and ignorance of their true nature is our self-created curse.

    That which you are ignorant of, and cannot control or predict, you fear and worship.

    That which you have tricked yourself into thinking you understand, you control.

    Hell exists without God or Heaven.

    Hell is:
    – Ignorance of one’s own ignorance
    – Hatred of other
    – Death as a tool to control or use
    – Ignorance of the nature of change
    – Reified delusion of Self (and hence Other)
    – Belief in a-Trinity-of-time instead of a single Now
    – Falling for the lie of Permanence
    – Convincing oneself that one is an immutable substance, rather than a complex set of interconnected processes changing through time.

    We have Hell. Right here, right now.

    All without an iota of a God above/inside/beside/outside/all of the above/something other than the above this universe.

    No souls. No Heaven. No God. No Past(in the ultimate sense). No Future (in the ultimate sense).

    Only Hell.

    The one catch is: It can be a Heaven just as easily, if we wake up to our present conditions and chip away at those veils of ignorance we’ve been brought up under.

    Or not. It’s each person’s choice.

  57. “If I was a muslim I would be offended by idiot fanatics that are turning my religion into crap and the mockery of the all world.”

    You don’t need fanatics to do that. Religions are all the same, anyway. All you need is the usual 90 percent of the population without a critical-thought process to share between them and who would believe in the tooth fairy if some old fsck living in his own city-state made of gold told them to — or some frothing-at-the-mouth televangelist with yet another pipeline — the correct, therefore the only one — to the tooth fairy.

    [Marvin Martian] No cartoons of tooth fairies, or I’ll be very, very angry. [/Marvin Martian]

  58. “Tolerant Muslims”, “Tolerant Christians”, “Tolerant Jews”, etc., hah, that’s a laugh.

    All will fight tooth and nail over coordinates of dirt, self-cherishing fantasies and militarizing dogmas, under the guise of doing their god’s alleged bidding.

    I spit on them all for how they ruin humanity’s potential.

  59. It’s time we burn this board in effigy, oh yeah, and wipe out the Muslims. That is what they want for us. It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee. Eurabia has been pretty much taken over, and it’s only a matter of time that they are going to try the same thing here. They are a branch of the evolutionary tree that is overdue for a pruning. If the moderate muslims are so great, why aren’t they taking care of their OWN HOME GROWN PROBLEM? I tell you why, becuase they secretly wish for their crusade to happen. I’ve known many muslims and they all have murder in their eyes. Fuck ’em.

  60. Wow!!!

    You guys are taking this crap way too seriously.

    You wanna be atheist, sure, no skin off my teeth, I’m not screaming in your face about the crimes of atheist humanists. So keep it down.

    Sure there are jerks out there that under the guise of “religion” scream in your face, but if you do the same as an atheist then you’re no better. You want all of humanity to be atheist, begin an education program on why atheism is better. Start an atheist outreach program where you feed hungry people. Etc… There’s so much more effective ways to do this then be a jerk on a message board.

    BTW, people who share a faith or a religion shouldn’t take this sort of crap off of their supposed brethern either.

    Jerks are jerks no matter what they believe and deserve to be humiliated in public. Counter their rhetoric with wit, reason, sarcasm, faith in your faith and yourself and their own rhetoric.

    If you’re trolling get a life.

  61. Hey I’m a Muslim but do not take offense in this. We need to distinguish between what is a real insult and what is not. When we try to take offense in any and everything that might be in some way connected to Islam, then we tend to desynthethize the public to the real insults. Let’s save the outrage for when it is due. OK?

  62. By the way You idiots

    If you didn’t know Steve Jobs was born from a Muslim father ……..

    If you don’t beleive me then go and search wikipedia who is steve jobs father is

    ie if steve jobs was not born your fucking apple nor the personal computer would have discovered
    \
    thus u should all worship muslims who brought to you the personal computer revolution

    IDIOTS !!!!!!

  63. I think the entire world missed the point of the Fifth Avenue store. There’s a big glass box sitting on the sidewalk. In order to find the store you need to look underneath it, you need to “think outside the box”.

    On the topic of religion I agree with the poster who said the Amish have it right. They are a forgiving people full of faith who don’t create problems by attempting to convert others. Why is that so hard for everyone else?

  64. The freedom to speak one’s mind trumps religious dogma, and I say Fuck You Muslim Bastards, and the camel you rode in on!

    If you don’t like what I have to say and don’t like the way I live, then move your 7th century asses back to Mecca. Piss be upon the false prophet Mohammed.

    <Insert cartoon of Mohammed licking a camel’s balls here.>

  65. A 100 kiloton nuke 30,000 feet above Mecca at the peak of Haj season sounds good to me.

    I’d love to see a million or so Muslims get the opportunity to pound away at their 72 virgins (or white grapes, depending on translation).

    Yep, the only good Islamic facist is a dead Islamic facist. Pile them on the scrap heap of history’s bad ideas.

  66. thus u should all worship muslims who brought to you the personal computer revolution

    If for no other reason than the fact that Islamic science spread the concept of “zero” to Europe as late as the 11th Century. It should be noted that the “civilised” Europe under the domination of the Catholic church considered the Indo-Arabian numeric system to be the work of the Devil and, as was the custom, threatened excommunication to those who practised its usage.

    At about the same time, Islamic science was also discovering that light was made up of components of different colours as opposed to “backward” Europe which, again thanks to the Holy See, was indoctrinated with the fact that natural light was an example of God’s purity and could not be disassembled.

    Now “people” (using the term loosely) will post that all of this is ancient history and that Islamic scholars haven’t contributed anything for centuries; everyone’s entitled to an opinion, it’s just a shame that so many of people here don’t bother to do any basic research before spouting their ignorance.

  67. FOR GODS SAKE YOU FRKING TOOLS!
    MEMRI – (Middle East Media Research Institute) – exists soley for the purpose of creating hatred for muslims and islam. They are the fox news of so called ‘middle east research institutes’.

    No i am not muslim. You people are led by the nose by any hate monger that comes along.

    You don’t care if your wrong or right. Some completely fake organization comes along and your ready to go to war with the middle east. You’r nothing but Sheep.

    Do you want to know what the problem is? From where comes the intolerence and stupidity? FROM YOU! The PROBLEM IS YOU!!!

    FACISM? Just who are the fascists? You are the Fascists…with your stupid ingnorance and inability to do anything but believe whatever $hit they serve up for you..and you will find out soon enough because your game is almost up. And who is going to be swinging the orwellian boot that is kicking you in the face forever? You will be. No one else, not the muslim sorry. Sure you will blame the muslims or whoever, everything and everyone serves as a tool to a nation of tools.

  68. The onus isn’t on the disbeliever to prove the non-existence of your god.

    Nice try, but using the pejorated “atheist” (equating it to failed murderous regimes that happened to be atheistic) doesn’t work.

    There is no failure in a-theism as a default state.

    Anyone who believes in any deity whatsoever is under a silly and deadly misapprehension.

    I don’t need to prove it. It’s in plain site but for your own indoctrination and fantasies.

    I know there are good, well-intentioned people that believe in God or gods etc., but they are good despite the religion, not due to it.

    They’d be even better people without the religio-rubbish.

  69. re: etype series

    What is wrong with FOXNews? Better than that pile of crap you call CNN! What’s the matter Mr. Liberal? Don’t like people bashing your stupid and ridiculous beliefs in the progressive society?

    I think Liberalism is a mental disorder.

  70. re: Billy Ash

    Billy-bob, or whatever your name is. Have you heard of the Cold War era strategy of MAD? Mutually Assured Destruction? This is what these Islamic radicals need to be told. You blow up something in the United States again, Mecca gets blown to bits. Simple and the strategy works.

    This world would be a better place if Muslims would stop thinking they can kill everyone in sight.

  71. re: etype series

    You are complete retard! I guess you are forgetting about the thousands of people that were killed on 9/11 because of some stupid Islamic fundamentalist and radical crap. What a fucking moron…

  72. As a desinger i find the Mac cube very creative, and it stands out as a monument,

    as for the similarities between the Mac cube and Mecca, yeah i can see what people are talking about, maybe its true that the concept of the cube desing was driven from Mecca it self from the idea that it opens 24 hours and is a destination to attract people of a particular group or with a particular interest,and maybe not, anyway i like the resemblance and i wish i came up with such creativity.

  73. “Actually, I met a few moslem friends who told me they are actually pleased about the Apple building looking like the Mecca shrine.”

    It’s not a building. It’s a glass cube placed in front of a building.

    But 99.9 percent of every building in the world looks like the Mecca shrine because 99.9 percent every building in the world is rectangular or square.

    Everyone put your hands on your heads and watch out for more suicide Muslims flying planes into buildings in every city on the planet, because every city on the planet is insulting their prophet by having square buildings.

    Square buildings are sacred. Buildings that are black are sacred. Buildings that are transparent are even more sacred. Everything’s sacred! And reserved for holy Muslim shrines. If you don’t like living in domed huts made of dried camel dung, they’ll kill you.

  74. I guess OS X may be a really cool and innovative operating system.

    What this forum shows, however, is that many of its users are bunch of hate-mongering facists.

    I haven’t seen one Moslem that defended that article. They have all defended the Apple Store as an elegant piece of architecture.

    Instead, there seems to be a glut of pricks that are advocating ideas of genocide that would make Hitler look like the tooth fairy.

    If I didn’t know better, I would have thought I was on a neo-nazis mac user forum.

  75. re James
    If pitting one tv news show against another is your method of understanding the people in this world and the problem of living like civilized beings…then go back to your television.

    MDM should be ashamed of itself for printing this garbage…this is nothing more than redneck baiting.

    Thanks MDM for stirring up a bunch of ignorant morons in hate and misinformed prejudice against islam, in the name of Apple and the Macintosh.

    Thanks for quoting MEMRI, which is a propaganda arm of the ‘end-times’ christian zionists and fifth column zionists…Hey if we are going to get these stupid americans riled up enough to squander the wealth of their country killing muslims, and also give up their freedoms, which have for so long served as an example (to you a bad example) to the world….we need to get mac users along side to.

    Nice to know MDM has become a propoganda arm of the endless war party.

  76. WHAT ISLAM SAYS ABOUT WOMEN:

    Bukhari:V3B48N826 “The Prophet said, ‘Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?’ The women said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is because of the deficiency of a woman’s mind.'”

    Ishaq:584 “Tell the men with you who have wives: never trust a woman.”

    Ishaq:185 “In hell I saw women hanging by their breasts. They had fathered bastards.”

    Bukhari:V1B22N28 “The Prophet (Mohammed) said: ‘I was shown the Hell Fire and the majority of its dwellers were women who are disbelievers or ungrateful.’ When asked what they were ungrateful for, the Prophet answered, ‘All the favors done for them by their husbands.'”

    Qur’an 4:11 “Allah directs you in regard of your Children’s (inheritance): to the male, a portion equal to that of two females…. These are settled portions ordained by Allah.”

    Tabari IX:113 – “Allah permits you to SHUT THEM IN SEPERATE ROOMS AND TO BEAT THEM, but not severely. If they abstain, they have the right to food and clothing. Treat WOMEN well for they ARE LIKE DOMESTIC ANIMALS and THEY POSSESS NOTHING themselves. ALLAH HAS MADE THE ENJOYMENT OF THEIR BODIES LAWFUL in his Qur’an.”

    HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT LADIES???

  77. I am a Muslim. And I am not offended by the design of Apple store

    That black cube holds absoulty not much value in islam. It was just built so muslims have a direction to face when they pray, it keeps us muslims united.

    but some of the comments that ppl wrote in this site are hurting…

    I’M A MUSLIM WOMAN AND I’M PROUD OF IT!!! Alhamdullilah.

    May Allah forgives us all. Ameen

  78. re: etype series

    Again, you are a complete moron. Why don’t you have the Constitution amended so that Clinton can run again? That way all you liberal-loving stupids can drool about him and that cow he had sex with. LOL

  79. just one more feedback. i’m a muslim and like billy i was not offended by the building or by referring to it as a ‘mecca’. i actually love the new look of the building. there will always be extremists and fanatics- who are obviously uneducated and dont know what the term ‘mecca’ refers to in the english language! try not to judge a whole religion by the opinions of some of those crazy ppl.

  80. u lil twats, u guys dat writin all dose crap ere as comments. wat shit ave u guys bn sayin?? how wud u liek it if i made an church converted 2 a bar hall? yes dat rite u wud HATE it, or if sum1 tuk da crap outa da church of england? huh huh? u guys ave no shame, luk at wat u guys wrote, all disgustin, i cnt beliv all americans r sods, at least british peepz r beta, much beta den u guys. yes im a brit muslim, yes its true i did get a bit doubtful seein dis cube fingy, but u no wat, i dnt care if ne americans r takin da piss, cos ma religion n mecca r undestructable, n all muslims shud fink liek dat instead of cryin at 1 word dey hear is against islam, for gods sake u americans r all da same, 1 lil fing n u tak it ova board. i mite visit dat cube fingy maself if i eva go 2 america buy kool ipod.
    all u guys disgust me, callin ma prophet a phildpile? did u hear ne otha muslim disrespect ur god or prophet? y does it has 2 be me who respects otha peepz religion while dey dnt? i respect jesus n christianity, bt no u gota say dem bludy disgustin fings, n da bad fing is u guys aint stopin, cos all u americans r airheads, mayb not cos its full of shit…dnt no how else 2 defend ma religion n mecca, cos all dis crap disgustes me n make me wanna throw up..

  81. I have sent this to MDN

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    Hello there,

    It is one issue that some narrow minded people who claim to be Arabs or Moslems react to things without knowing the truth about them, and the insulting comments that your site allow some other ignorant and narrow minded westerners to publish.

    I have found some offensive materials and dirty language in:

    http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/11242/

    So please try to remove it before things become worse. Also try to accept suitable comment from people. Not insults and swearing from bastards with wrong faith or even no faith. From my experience I got to learn that people in the Middle East, Asia and the Far East have respect for others, where as in Europe and America, they do not have that. There are people that you can make fun of but there are others who you can simply not.

    My message to the useless insects who think high about themselves or think that the people need to hear them or think that they have to comment is: If you want to be aggressive then it is your problem. If you did not have parents to teach you right from wrong, or if you were so dump to figure out yourself, just blame it on the society.

    Regards,

    ———————————-

    No I would love to comment on some people:

    Simple Faith, Simple Minds … you are nothing but corny and shallow … you do not tailor your faith according to your needs. It is the other way round.

    Steve O … how about I take you to the candy shop.

    Turd Ferguson … you son a bitch … piss and shit be upon you and your whole family if you had any you ignorant bastrad.

    eMax … could not waste my time finding a suitable insult for you … you are not worth me insulting you then trying to explain the meaning and so on… simply you are an idiot.

    Towertone … why? Did they talk to you before?

    WHAT … it seems that you know nothing about Moslems. Try to learn more.

    Petervrdk… Moslems are peaceful… at the same time they do not accept crap if you know what I mean.

    James … ha ha ha smart ass … you think you funny???

    hagar57 … again … … ha ha ha smart ass … you think you funny???
    the pope smokes dope … check you history idiot…

    Sol … are you trying to be funny???

    Roberto … again … … ha ha ha smart ass … you think you funny???

    Dev Singh … you cow shit worshipping idiot … What is your faith again???

    Fku … trust me you know noting about Islam. Moslems do not offend other religions.. but I think it is better to make cartoons about people and dogs pissing and shitting on you… don’t you agree??? How would you feel???

    Thanx A. Lott … This is not true… where do you get you crap from??? What does this have to do with the subject anyway???

    ———————————-

    One last thing:

    Judaism, Christianity and Islam are the only correct religions. They all came from the same god. People misunderstand or suck; it is their fault but not god’s or the religions’. Read more and try to find the unmodified ones so that you will believe that they are all the same.

  82. One more thing since some idiot mentioned it.

    Women have the best rights in Islam even before they though of fighting for it. Things that reflect negatively are what are forced by stupid cultures such as the bedwen in the gulf or the blindly following Asians. These acts have nothing to do with Islam.

  83. “Thanx A. Lott … This is not true… where do you get you crap from??? What does this have to do with the subject anyway???”

    Hey Mr. “Stop The Madness “…What? Are you for real??? Don’t you know anything about your sacred islamic texts, Hadiths or renowned scholars to know that my above quotes came from YOUR RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS??? YOU ARE MOST IGNORANT MY MECCA LOVING BLIND DOPE!!! “Religon of peace”? No, Religion of slavery, thieves, death & hate.

  84. Peace be on all of you!
    I am not here to hurt anyone’s principles. why dont Apple built that black box as red Apple, so that people can identify the company by looking at its shape.
    ==============================================
    Can christians and jews allow muslims to built a alcohalic bar having shape of synagogue or church…! certainly they wont allow!
    Why not Apple built its bar like church or synagogue!!???
    It is not right to hurt other’s religious sentiments, whichever religion it may be. can christians and jews keep quit, if there are cartoons pertaining to show jesus and moses are bad.they never!
    ==============================================
    Fear God Almighty who had created you all and me. as a matter of logic, we see the world is full of good and falsehood.we must answer in front of the Universal Ruler, God Almighty on the day of Judgement…! we are going to answer what the good we did and what the wrong we did.if it isnot that our life is lame!

  85. I just want to know how the Jews or Christian feel if their religious symbols are being made fun. Have you ever seen holy cross being used for intruding (sorry) lady’s ass or david star being used for scope head to clean horse’s waste (=shit, sorry).
    I am a budhist adherent. The highest dharma (virtue) is to forgive other people insult. But if you insult me more than once, you deserve a revenge. It seems that what happened to muslim is resemblance of budha’s teaching. How many muslim are already killed by USA and Israel, we never count, because it is too many. But only one AMerican or Israeli dies, it seems the world fall shake. What a double standard!
    Sorry for any hard feeling. Cheers

  86. HI ASSHOLE JEWS AND CHRISTIAN! please carry on and get naked to fuck ur naked sister ,, mothers and daughter ay beaches …lol…hey you all made for fucking..our muslim brother fucked your girls just in 100$ ..sometime in 40$ …so at which thing are you proud..yeah u should be proud because muslim give your girls honour to see their and taste their…..so you are lucky one…but your girls are not able to marry because they are fucked by thousandof men at age of 20…..so they are used to fuck and throw away in front of someone else …….heheehehehehe..its so funny now….that you white non muslims are serving us and making computer and bla bla for us….its another thing you get knowledge from muslims..like bu ali sina…and other old physicians etc…but its useless to mention because we have great hearts,…and GOD…ALLAH give us feul…petrol and oil because where our prophet MUHAMMAD PEACE BE UPON HIM…SAL ALLAH HU ALAIH E WA ALAIH E WASAlam….kept foot..ALLAH keep oil below that earth..and now you all bloddy christian are going to copy our kaaba bcause our muslim brothers made highest building of world in UAE..dubai..so you bloody asshole fucker can only get jellous and copy our buildings..so i have told you we have great heart..so carry on watz going on…and m appreciated new sex videos launches by ur sisters and mothers and wives and daughters…its amazing..that now they throw behind dogs,, bitchs and other pork like animals…..so these fatty and skinny bitches showing well….carryon dear christians and jews……hehehehehhehe..hahahahahhahaha,,,hhhahahahahhahahahahahahahah,…I m very happy from you progress that you are carrying…..you only can cheat because this cheating mighy be gave u some pennies,….as you have to pay taxes ..you have to work like ass…donkeys….and then you get a lil bit dollars….for wine…hehehhe..so this bar needed u …gothere and spend your all moneythat you get by pushing your ass……ahahahhaha..you all are fucking animals….so u need work ,,and just work for ur asses……so dnt spend ur time here….go and dowork,.. and i am eating some delicious fruits and some very delicious meals cooked by my jew cook and christian servant is serving me…lemme give $5000 for tip to them,….ok go to work..and do work for our welfare and our prosperity…..
    ALLAH HAFIZ
    THIS ARTICLE IS JUST FOR THOSE JEWS AND CHRISTIANS WHO ABUSES PROPHET AND ALLAH…NOT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE RESPECT FOR ALL RELEGION…

  87. ok ok ok , please guys enough of the racism towards islam , we obviously understand how you feel about the situation so why not take a chill pill and let the good times roll.
    The building is built and there is no turning back so just let it be , why are you inciting muslims to hate and call them towards evil deeds , like I said just pipe down the blasphemy and the world can be a better place , live and let live.

  88. Hei, Muslims, respectfully, how can you be a Muslim after reading this kind of news, many others alike, the Quran and the Hadiths? Read Muslim’s comments you will learn a lot about yourself.

    What do you need to leave Islam? a personal interview with God?
    Do you need to die and see that Allah is Satan and Islam is evil? Will you give your soul to the alter ego of Muhammad and Satan?

    How can you stand this amount of shame, deception and ignorance of your own religion?

    Honestly, think about it.

  89. Ho Hum another day, another Muslim outrage. Is there ANYTHING that doesn’t offend these people? By the way I’m offended by the Empire State Building glowing Dhimmi Green in celebration of the Muslim holiday Eid.

  90. They don’t get offended. This is their excuse for their normal behaviour. They are pure evil literaly. they are always angry because they are evil and full of hatred against infidels. They hate you far more than they love their children, they are pedophiles. They just get happy when an infidel is killed. When will you understand it? I hope we kill all them or they kill us. Nobody deserves the coexistence with these people in the same universe…however, they surprise me…they can be worse and more wicked minute by minute. Islam is a desease.

    They hate anyone else, because they are worst people that has ever existed in the Earth. They are ashamed of their ignorant, illiterate, subhuman, idiotic history and religion.
    They are pure shit and they know it, they hate it and they will kill you if you do nothing, I swear you. Which kind of people are Muslims who worship a demented deity invented by brutal rapist pedophile mass murderer warlord? Just Muslim humanoid monsters…the Islamic illness chose them -or they chose this illness- and they kill those who aren’t infected. Stop the infection.

    Moderate peaceful Muslims are like unicorns. You will never convice them so…If you see a Muslim in the street, don’t hesitate, follow him and kill him. “Wherever you find them, kill them.”
    Do it. Apply their Quranic theachings against themselves. Then hide their bodies. Another 911 -or WMD attack- will not movilizate your people. They are dhimmi zombies. It’s your life and your family, or their madness and hatred. You chose.

    I am not exagerating -or joking-. It doesn’t matter how it sounds. We deserve our own future. Do it. you will preserve your children and your society. Nazis couldn’t be changed, Muslims, of course, won’t do it.

    It’s survival. Do it. Quick!

  91. I am a muslim and the stupid issue being raised on the similiarity is the biggest BS I have ever heard. No one (Muslims. Christians or Jews) has a monoploy on shapes and colors.
    people have too much free time on their hand to raise issues such as these

  92. Oh My God what kind of people are you mac what havemuslims ISLAM ever done to you guys huh? i wish it never be’s succsesful. i hope all muslims wil get the message of what you are doing and protest enuf so the usa goverment wont let you open it….. why didnt you make it in the shape of a church….? ill tell you why because you respect your religion wel guess what not only u respect ur religion we do ok so please do not make the club or wateva it is in the shape of the holy place for muslims kab’ah!

  93. Okay.. I too am a muslim.. a US born and raised muslim and I can honestly say that no remotely educated muslim would fine the Apple building offensive in any manner. I even went there a few times and didn’t think twice about… if anything I just thought it was cool.
    The term mecca just refers to :A place that is regarded as the center of an activity or interest. :A goal to which adherents of a religious faith or practice fervently aspire.
    :A place visited by many people: a mecca for tourists.
    Someone out there.. put the word mecca with bar, and as mentioned in a previous post, put up some pictures of the construction work being done where it was covered with the black paper and wanted to start something and started saying stuff to the wrong person and this webpage is the result. There is clearly no comparision, but I commend Apple for being the bigger person and apologizing.. that says alot about the company.
    In regards to those who are “bashing” Islam.. just know that the daily crimes that are going on, unfortunately, with all the murders in your town.. chances are.. they’re not being done by muslims. There are idiots in EVERY religion.. it’s just easier to focus on the one that people have the least proper knowledge on. If you try to read about Islam from a valid source, you will realize that Islam is completely against most of the things that the media points out about it. Education is one of the only things that can turn hatred into understanding, by knowing that Islam is a religion of common sense and peace. If it seems like it’s wrong.. chances are, it’s frowned up, and not allowed in Islam.

  94. i think ur all pathetic yh im a muslim yh nd the rest of the muslims stop jumping to conclusion and 4 the rest stop insulting us muslims you should have better things to do yh ca ur all waste, shut up and leave your comments to ur self

  95. hi and salaam
    we muslims find this whole issue very very offensive
    those who are very rude and racist they can just go and get a life.

    some of you have just made the whole thing into a joke we take it very seriously so just give it a break.

    love to those people who understand..x

  96. I’m a practicing Muslim-American and don’t see anything wrong with this at all. People need to relax in current charged enviornment. I do feel thay all of us should be more respectful and tolerant but this is not a case of any insult to Islam. In fact I think it is a positive gesture from Apple ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” />

  97. well dear friends!!
    i jus want to say that i disagree wid sum og u here
    apple mecca looks like mecca they giv it a name APPLE MECCA and wat else doesnt shows dat it looks like mecca….
    well i dont argue or i dont wanna fight but the thing is dat americans(non muslims)hav always tried to insult muslims and thier religion..
    u no guys wat our religion is a religion of peace and v r not allowed to say anything bad abt other religion but sum ppl in america hav always tried to insult us!!
    well jus wanna say that may god help them!!
    peace
    bye

  98. comment MUSLIM

    i completly agree widout

    u no wat dis shows that how uneducated they r,,
    they jus c wats inm new,,
    they dont search bcuz they r dumb they jus make fun of other

    i jus wanna say ALLAH INKO HIDAYAT DE!!

  99. QURAN is our holy book
    AND ALLAHTALA says…those who insult islam let them do this..
    they r going to face trouble in thier lives..

    c in america y there r so many disasters wehy earthquake thunderstorms cums only in usa y not in any part of the world??
    bxcuz ALLAH almighty is punishing them!1
    but they dont belive in this bcuz they dont hav anyone to tell them
    they dont belive in any GOD
    they r innocent ppl
    they dont no wen they insult ALLAH RASOOl(nauzubillah)
    ALLAH punish them but they dont no
    all they can do is jus cry !!

  100. Thise is to all those peoples who are writing reviews,
    HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF MUSLIM’S MAKE A BUILDING SIMILAR TO CROSS AND NAME IT SOMETHING LIKE “SHIT CROSS” AND START SELLING WHORES IN IT.? I didn’t want to be rude, it’s just an example and lots worse can be written.
    Now they probably know that alcohol is prohibited in Islam why would they name the building as Mecca and serve alcohol in it…??? Think yourself about it before writing reviews…

  101. they say if you have no come-backs, Mock them…most of the poeple here dont have morlas, values and respect for others. why doesnt anyone come up with a more mature reason why to keep this cube project

  102. “””Comment from: jimmy
    Hei, Muslims, respectfully, how can you be a Muslim after reading this kind of news, many others alike, the Quran and the Hadiths? Read Muslim’s comments you will learn a lot about yourself.

    What do you need to leave Islam? a personal interview with God?
    Do you need to die and see that Allah is Satan and Islam is evil? Will you give your soul to the alter ego of Muhammad and Satan?

    How can you stand this amount of shame, deception and ignorance of your own religion?

    Honestly, think about it.”””
    ***********************************************************

    wow jimmy you just threw a bunch of conclusion without any research… i never knew this much ignorance and lack of information can come out from a single person (no offence)..
    I cant say australia is the best place in the world to live in, i cant say budwieser is the best beer out there, i cant say ferrari is better than lamborghini, coz i havent been to australia, i’ve never consumed alcohol, and i dont own those cars… but what i can say is that you are an ignorant, brainwashed, monkey- say monkey-do’er person ive seen among all these reviews…

  103. what i dont understand is how some (note i said SOME) non-muslims can be so unintelligent to realise what islam is. its not about learing how to bomb. pfft. like what kind of religion is that lmao?? islam is ment to peaceful and a modest religion. but ppl these days seem to take the piss outta us to make us angry for no reason. I dont see you ppl taking the piss outta george bushes religion cos hes a phyco. or numerous of the abusers or rapist relogions living in england.

  104. just let us muslims do our own thing and you guys do your own. i mean it is so simple. pff. racist ppl these days. and can i just say something….not being rude or anything…but in the bible it says jesus wants you guys to drink wine which is alcohol which is bad for u and can kill you. i dont get it? its just like saying drink poisen and die. doesnt seem real to me for a religion to say that (sorry if i affending me << yes i am a muslim and being polite!)

    15 yer old frm UK

  105. and ppl want to kill all muslims cos of a like a few muslims bombed up a tower . well were not all like that.

    thats like me saying

    kill all catholics/christians becasue they get drunk and rape and kill people!!

    suck on that you racist ppl

  106. and i dont no why you people are having a go at us muslims cos of this apple shit. what have we done wrong? its not like were building it pfft. sadacts.

    i just cant wait for the day of jujdement. you guys will get what you deserve. (the racist ppl tht is)

  107. mr true..

    well lemme tell u one thing v muslims hav a strong beleive in ALLAH QURAN HADITHS n everything that is written in QURAN..if u think that islam is evil n ALLAH is nauzubilah setan then u r simply making ur way towrads hell..

    QURAn is the ionly book dat doesnt hav any change since it has given to muslim but bible..damn how can u believe in a book that is wriiten by 80 ifferent ppl wid different views n ideas..

    saying jesus as a son a god is the biggest sin that christians r doind..
    to prove how pure ISLAM is we dont need to die or meet ALLAh v can prrove it ok..

    wid million evidence from QURAN ADD HADEETHS…

    may ALLAH bless all

    bye

  108. christians!! n catholics..

    can i ask a simple question..

    does ur religion n ur jesus…as u call him ur god..
    allows u to wear short clothes..rapes others sister mothers and daughter as u turn 18..or drink and take drugs proudly..

    do u hav any solid reason..

    i think no…cuz there is no religion dat allow dre ppl to drink or to do anything like that..

    but i think uguys hav made ur own religion i think u shud giv a name to this..

    independent religion.
    cuz u do everythin..

    m not teasing anyone ok.

    and thats the point m trying to make that ISLAM teaches us to patient n stay away from dese stupid things..

    so just sit n think about wat r u doin…

    may ALLAH bless all !

  109. this is not a joke… and we muslims wont be taking it easy….INSHALLAH…..khilafat is just ahead and we will see each and every one of u who try to insult ISLAM AND MUHAMMAD….YOU PEOPLE ARE REALLY FORCING US TO WORK MORE AND MORE FOR THE CALIFH STATE… AN ISLAMIC STATE… INSHALLAH……..

  110. wow christians!1
    i again appretiate it..
    u guys again tried to make cartoon or prophet..

    wow..

    i think u guys forgot the thing happened wid the last denish publisher
    he is no more!!

    y r u messing with ALLAH..

    well u guys deserve it!
    u guys deserve a solid punishment…

  111. you sick people (MAC STAFF & PROJECT SUPPORTERS), get a life you morons…I thought it was a bit too much to cause destruction on US with Twin Towers but this makes me feel, YOU ALL ARE MEANT TO DIE in FATALITY. Learn to respect, proabably, what you all are doing is a reflection of your religion..even if your religion dosent teach you respect, think logically & you will be a better human,, or else last option..EMBRACE ISLAM!!

  112. DBZ man..!!
    they dont care wat eve v do
    becuase they r still confuse who tocall their GOD..
    duhhh!!

    i have alot of ppl in my skool who dont hav any religion
    they dont belive in any god
    n they cal themselves christian..
    huh….

  113. well dis happens wen god gives u tongues..ur speech puts da reader into a trance ..n they cant think of themselves … huh!!! u ppl r cowards..sum islamic i mean so-called islamic minority blacksheep bomb about things and places..not da actuall faithful knowledgable majority..cum-on guys..be brave and accept that yes,apple did it to earn maximum attention..da shape n architecture is only used to serve as a bussiness-fame-scheme!
    WHEN U KNEW DAT DIS WOD OFFEND MUSLIMS, Y U HAD TO PUT DA NAME:”MECCA” ????? ….u painted in black..ok,its fine..u say u decided it long before..ok, we tolerate dat..u made it in a cube..ok, u say apple has a fetish for cubes…………………………………..but to serve alchohol and put da name”genious bar” certainly means more than wat u give as an xplanation..why not say u dun have a good reason? cum-on be brave and accept it..u cod have done everything u did, EXCEPT naming it Mecca…it wod ofcorse make muslims think like dat…u mite not b dat sincere wid ur churches , but sorry , we cant help it..our fundamentals teach us to be sincere and respectful to our sacred places..everyone has da rite to think like dat..and i dunno y u keep blabbering abt that u wod bomb arabic mecca…hahahaha…well..if those so-called muslim minority bombs ur apple mecca now, den U DUN HAVE DA RITE TO BLAME REST OF THE PEACE-LOVING MAJORITY FOR DAT…..and yes..ehem ehem..if dats da case,.,den plz..step-up, come now n bomb da arabic mecca..and if ur unable to do dat in dis lifetime…den b sure u ppl hav only got da time n wasted energy to blabber n gossip widout thinking………losers!!!! its time….watch ur words..n save dem….

    PRAISE B TO ALLAH…….DA ONE N ONLY…DA ALL KIND….AND HIS MESSENGER………PROPHET..MOHAMMAD……………PEACE B UPON HIM…………………….(He certainly is not effected a bit by ur loserness n impotency to embrace it hahahaha!!!!) n u can do nuthin abt it..try if u like.

  114. EVERYBODY JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP.

    THE RUMOR WAS SPREAD THAT IT WAS A CLUB OK NO ONE KNEW IT WAS AN APPLE STORES. SO ALL OF U DISRESPECTING ISLAM, GO FUCK UR MOMS WHITE PUSSY U MOTHER FUCKERS ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” /> AT LEAST WE FKIN HAVE MORALS AND PRIDE… UNLIKE U PIECES OF WORTHLESS CULTURLESS SHIT.

  115. very diffrent diffrent angels to comment on this topic,
    all understands thats reliegon is very much over then anything to a muslim.
    but anybody can say anything one day will be caught and answerable…….
    insulting behaviours are even not good to anybody, and on Muslims Not Good or what is the need let them live their lives.
    love and peace to all of you.

  116. well guys i have a completely different view at this.. u may or may not accept it but its a view
    Even I happened to hear abt this issue in an email, it was actually eye catching. It also I have to say made a wide variety of ppl to check it out by typing the words Apple Mecca and running a search as most ppl in my part of the world dont know the everyday happenings of mid town manhattan. As a result I guess Apple was extremely successful (luckily) in marketing their new store without much expenses as otherwise it would have been the case. Whereas now they have got a mass email doing their job for them, simply by inserting the words (insulting Kaba by selling alchoholics).
    ofcourse now if the email just mentioned an Apple Store that was resembling the Kabah because of its cube shape, now that wudnt have made me even open the forward.
    Why might not have Apple propogated this email? well that was a view that i had been playing arnd with my mind. u know slightly let the slip that its actually a ‘BAR’. and the Islamic extremists jump onto it ofcourse. One of my points is that why mention the word ‘Apple Mecca’ in the email? wudnt that be kinda obvious as to what it sells? or it just to aid ppl in googling it?
    Well whatever it is.. if Apple indeed propogated it.. then I think an award for the best marketing strategy of the century shud be given to them.. awesome marketing!! sick ofcourse.. insulting atleast 33.33% of the world’s population.. but effective nonetheless.. when even the majority of those 33.33% will just blame on their extremists for creating a hullaboo.
    My only weakness in that argument is.. if they did propogate such things.. the citizens of manhattan wud be concerned over safety issues cos they might fear that some of the extremists might jus decide to bomb it or somthing.. and it actually might work negatively. Unless… they have a plan to get rid of such concerns completely.. once the whole ‘marketing’ game has been completed. Ofcourse now.. I can hardly picture anybody (even extremists) fighting over some cube shaped building that sells gadgets and is called Apple Mecca.
    well ofcourse now u can attack this view or support it.. so long as its an intellectual argument

  117. Hello dick heads, actually u americans r under control of isreals, they can fuck u n e time n e place, basically u guys dont have n e thing, your money, your law, your banking, your media is all controlled by isreals. And dont have family values + no religion respect for your self and for others, u all americans r just like little cocroches, u people make jokes of ISLAM, i know u feel lower class generation & i think u r, the way u make fun of ISLAM and MUSLIMS. WE R MOST CULTURED CIVILIZATION.
    ALLAH WILL PROTECT US FROM U AND GIVE US POWER TO FIGHT U.

  118. Hello d*ck heads, actually u americans r under control of isreals, they can f*ck u n e time n e place, basically u guys dont have n e thing, your money, your law, your banking, your media is all controlled by isreals. And dont have family values + no religion respect for your self and for others, u all americans r just like little cocroches, u people make jokes of ISLAM, i know u feel lower class generation & i think u r, the way u make fun of ISLAM and MUSLIMS. WE R MOST CULTURED CIVILIZATION.
    ALLAH WILL PROTECT US FROM U AND GIVE US POWER TO FIGHT U.

  119. Dear all,
    As i’m a muslim as well so i would like to add few things… that i’ve researched a lot abt it,, n has find out that it’s a see through building which some newspaper has mentioned as a hot story in their article to earn a couple of extra damn bucks with some different comparable images with the Muslims HOLY place… i’ve no problem but since these dirty little dick heads insulting out religion i don’t think so that any person from any religion would bear the insult.. coz it’s a matter of faith & believe which some of u mentioned in the name above don’t have any.. you people simply are moron who just like to post nasty fucking stuff on websites. if your blood is pumping u really up,,, than just go infront of a good muslim & say all this stuff.. i guess it’s enough from me & i don’t be dirty as some of u wrote about ISLAM & Muslims.. because if i do so what would be the difference between among us huh…
    fuck u shit bags..
    f**k – james, WHAT, the pope smokes dope, Turd Ferguson, jwp1964 , eMax, Object-X, hagar57, Sol

    not to offend anyone else…

    peace…

  120. PRAISE B TO ALLAH…….DA ONE N ONLY…DA ALL KIND….AND HIS MESSENGER………PROPHET..MOHAMMAD……………PEACE B UPON HIM…………………….(He certainly is not effected a bit by ur loserness n impotency to embrace it hahahaha!!!!) n u can do nuthin abt it..try if u like.

  121. you say sorry for using the word mecca. well i dont think that will change the insulting thing they did. non-muslims keep saying “WE WANT PEACE” fighting isnt the solution of any problem, then why are they always ready like 24/7 ready to fight with muslims. seriously it’s REALLY kidish to do all these things just inorder to insult islam: one word “RIDICULOUS”

  122. Salam!
    i totally i agree with u ayesha.. & infact i wrote the two comments mentioned above urs ayesha. but these trash bags wouldn’t understand until the truth becomes visually clear like anything or u can say the judgement day.. anyways take care u all..
    Peace

  123. Guys… you are not opposing Muslims, you are opposing against Allah, the almighty, Allah knows all, you will repent for these activities… wait for that day… its very near.. Insha Allah.. Lets all Muslim bros and sisters join hands and pray to Allah and make these guys repent for their entire life on the earth and the here after… Allahu Akbar…. Allahu Akbar!!!

  124. wts this shit about!!!!!!!!!! man if i drove next to this project i would seriously bomb it all up!!! this is disrespecting all muslims! and all Muslims should do something about this shit! when i read this artical I was like What the Hell!! IF WE MUSLIMS KEEP SHUTTING OUT MOUTHES AND NOT DOING ANYTHING BOUT ALL THIS DISCRIMINATION, HATERS WILL GROW AND DO EVEN MORE OF THIS…………..FUK THEM HATERS

  125. HolyMackerel ALLAH is da name of our god n by da way who da heck said u dat it’s aprovd by muslim court cuz i dun think it’s true. god is a common name 4 dem whom v worship n 2 b specific muslims call da 1 ALLAH.

  126. @ayesha

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6980360.ece

    You need to take it up with the Malaysian government’s High Court. Also my Muslim friends have always told me that ‘Allah’ is Arabic is the word for God as ‘god’ is in English. They even evangelise in the West by saying Christians and Muslims worship the same deity for that reason (same name). Yet it is impossible to have one without the other, if you see what I mean. So, either the deities are different or the Muslim Allah needs a new name so we know who we are talking about. This is the conclusion after the Malaysian government ruling.

  127. @ HolyMackerel
    Muslims dun agree 2 dis point n neva il. den even u said it’s an arabic word 4 god. y do u need 2 use arabic word instead of english word. is da pronunciation dat hard 4 u dat u use 5 alphabets word instead of 3 alphabets word. i dun think dis is da reason,

  128. you disbelievers you have to face the wrath of allah nor your lord jesus is to save you who just was the servant of allah on the day of judement beawaare of allah you kept doing the same things you america will be next haiti or indonesia

  129. Hello everyone , I am a muslim as well and I think that APPLE is trying to advertise its new line of products as Mr.Job is facinated by cubes thats his choice .. And besides there is only ONE KA’BA and no one in the world or outside .. or what ever that might be can create except ALLAH … No man’s creation can match that it holds a different stature in the eyes of all the people around the world may be of any religion .. Its a disgrace that KA’BA is being compared to Apple’s Project.. People GROW UP PLZZZZ. . . .

  130. people please don’t insult our religion. As a Muslim i highly respect my religion and all other major religions like Christianity, Budhism etc. so i won’t insult your religion and if you people are so civilized then stop insulting other religions because civilized people don’t do that.

  131. Muslims brothers and sisters stop insulting their religion because we
    as muslims also respect Prophet Jesus(PBUH). AND WE SHOULD NOT WRITE ANY THING INSULTING ABOUT THEM AND TELL OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE UTTERLY WRONG ABOUT US THAT WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM BECAUSE THEY USE SLANG WORDS ABOUT OUR RELIGION WHICH IS THE WEAKEST THING A PERSON CAN DO AND IS MORALLY INCORRECT WAY OF BEHAVING.SO PLEASE DON’T USE SLANG WORDS BECAUSE THEN THERE WILL BE NO DIFFERENCE AMONG US AND THOSE PEOPLE WHO INSULTS OTHER RELIGION.

  132. mother fuckers who desgin this building and build this building .. if they come in our country all muslim fuck her mother and sister. son of bitch ,piss in your mouth . stop this nonsens thing other wise all muslim are standing aginst u ,,,, ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .

  133. mother fuckers who desgin this building and build this building .. if they come in our country all muslim fuck her mother and sister. son of bitch ,piss in your mouth . stop this nonsens thing other wise all muslim are standing aginst u ,,,, ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .ALLHA -HO-AKBAR .

  134. I wish that Allah Subhan wa Tallah brings bad luck to you. And you will remain insulted in your lifetime. Take your words back and do not insult our beloved Prophet for you may not know what bad things may arrive in your life time if you do so. Respect all religion and say no bad to Islam. We muslims never make fun of jesus so you pls dun’t do as well.

  135. have u all people of fcking americans forgetting that what are we the (talibans) are doing with ur soldiers…we will break up america…just like we break russia…..Allah Hu Akbar…..

  136. what are you talking about … Jessus crist ???? ha ha ha lol! there is no man in this world called jessus crist. he is our prophet Hazrat Issa Allah-lahu-alaiusallam . u bastards named him jessus crist ….

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