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Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Theological question:

You may recall that in 1996, somebody discovered a cinnamon bun that looked a lot like Mother Teresa. It was given the name Nun BunTM (aka the Immaculate ConfectionTM) and put on display at the Bongo Java coffee shop where it remained until it was stolen Christmas Day 2005. Generally speaking, nobody took offense with the discovery and promotion of the Nun Bun.
Now, in light of the recent controversy over the cartoons, what would happen if somebody discovered a pastry, a Danish perhaps, that looked like the prophet Mohammed? (Or at least one's conception of Mohammed, since nobody knows what he looked like.) It wouldn't be a deliberate representation like that an illustrator or cartoonist would make. It would be a natural occurrence, and therefore not in violation of the Koran's injunction against a person "making" an image.

Perhaps if such a confection were to emerge from a baker's oven, we could stop arguing over the cartoons and, instead, focus on important messages found in rolls of dough (or failing that, the entrails of sacrificed animals).



6 comments

Spot on. Spot on.

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2/08/2006 4:25 PM  

They don't call them Danishes anymore in Iran, now they are called Freedom Pastries or Islamic Pastries or something like that.

They've got the same nuts there as we have here.

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2/08/2006 5:58 PM  

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Navy ships are helping patrol the international waters off Yemen to try to recapture al Qaeda prison escapees if they try to flee by sea, the Pentagon said in a statement on Thursday.

Notice how the people who are shocked -- shocked! -- that someone leaked the illegal wiretap story, claiming that it let the bad guys know our methods (which would have been assumed anyway), are quite happy to announce operational details of a plan to catch bad guys?

By Blogger brainhell, at 2/09/2006 9:12 AM  

"[I]mportant messages found in rolls of dough"? I thought that was Tom DeLay's and Jack Abramoff's department...

By Blogger Steve Bates, at 2/09/2006 9:42 AM  

This'll get your buns in a twist:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Navy ships are helping patrol the international waters off Yemen to try to recapture al Qaeda prison escapees if they try to flee by sea, the Pentagon said in a statement on Thursday.

Notice how the people who are shocked -- shocked! -- that someone leaked the illegal wiretap story, claiming that it let the bad guys know our methods (which would have been assumed anyway), are quite happy to announce operational details of a plan to catch bad guys?

By Blogger brainhell, at 2/09/2006 10:10 AM  

http://www.einterface.net/gamini/miracleislam.html

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2/13/2006 12:00 PM  

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