Comments on: Muslim Community Responds: We Love the Apple NYC Cube

By: TechCrunch, Fitna, The Truth, ‘New Media’, and Social Responsibility - Tech Soapbox

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:19:36 +0000

[...] what I do best – poke fun at the entire stupid premise. We wrote a tongue-in-cheek article called Muslim Community Responds: We love the Apple NYC Cube. We decided to quote one random un-sourced ‘muslim’ who said he loved the Apple store, [...]

By: Free Willie

Free Willie — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:39:29 +0000

The Kaaba is no Rubik’s Cube.. LOL

By: The Plague of Mis-information - Tech Soapbox

The Plague of Mis-information - Tech Soapbox — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:54:31 +0000

[...] but they get more sensationalist as people try to drive traffic to their site. Case in point: Muslims & the Apple NYC cube. The original (unsourced) story was some muslim was suppousedly offended by the apple cube story. [...]

By: Apple si scusa e gli Islamici rigettano le dichiarazioni del MEMRI at Melamorsicata

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:36:37 +0000

[...] Intanto la ComunitÃ Mussulmana risponde con un’articolo apparso su Apple Gazette: [...]

By: Amina Almys

Amina Almys — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:27:39 +0000

Asalaqamu-Alaikum. Looking for room with other Arab-speaking Muslimas in the New York area. If you have any info on this please contact me ASAP. Thanx for listening——–Amina Almys

By: Tan

Tan — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:43:32 +0000

Hi there I think that the freemasons designed this on purpose.

By: MFA (Made for AdSense) is the past. Say hullo to MFL (Made for Linkbait) - Tech Soapbox

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:46:01 +0000

[...] I’ve covered shortcomings of user-generated content sites like Digg before. I’ve pointed out how people quickly jump on a bandwagon without checking facts. Itt seems one of the first things to go with user-generated content is fact-checking. [...]

By: TechSoapBox

TechSoapBox — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:51:31 +0000

[...] Hoaxes spreading with little (or no) fact-checking My personal issue with blogs is that too many people quickly duplicate what some other blogger has said without doing any fact-checking. A recent case was the spread-like-wildfire claim of ‘Muslim community offended by Apple NYC cube’. It even made the NY Post. Only later did the truth come out – it was just one person on a messageboard. Of course, reading the trail of this story leads back into point #1 – a brief headline was twisted to get more hits (and boy did they get a lot of hits from that story). [...]

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Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:48:44 +0000

By: irfan shaikh

irfan shaikh — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:29:49 +0000

Take a chill pill :J

Any other man can not be Mohammad (sallahu alaihiwa sallam) peace be upon him ), similarly any cude can not be Kaaba.

By: A Question of Basic Decency » The J Spot

A Question of Basic Decency » The J Spot — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:15:20 +0000

[...] And this is not only limited to Christians. I do agree with one commenter on Yugatech that if it were Muslims that bryanboy insulted, the reaction could have been far greater. Remember the Apple NYC Cube fiasco I wrote about on Apple Gazette a while back? Propagandists were successful at inciting religious hatred by pitting religion against religion (well, almost, since love for Apple is considered a religion by some). We were able to dig deeper into the matter, and discovered that the “news” sites involved were of questionable intent. [...]

By: ali

ali — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:41:25 +0000

it is offending.. coz u know ur intentions well..
Allah sayz..{ they try their tricks}, so this is ur whole physcology, but no problem, we ll face this challenge also…….and…..

By: jonny

jonny — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:26:28 +0000

jonny

By: Mac Lover

Mac Lover — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:02:17 +0000

MEMRI is a right wing Israeli propaganda group ran by a terrorist named Yigal Carmon. It deblieretly mistranslates portions of the arabic press to mislead unsuspecting westerners.
This was nothing but an attempt to manufacture a response. Jewish fanatics be warned!

By: Wael Kfoury

Wael Kfoury — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:05:19 +0000

english to arabic…

Interesting post. I came across this blog by accident, but it was a good accident. I have now bookmarked your blog for future use. Best wishes. Wael Kfoury….

By: Jawabday

Jawabday — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:01:37 +0000

This is not about extremisim, its about respect that we share among each other. For Muslims the religion and their faith is their greatest strength. Its not about something that look cubical is offending material for muslims. We all know there are lot of cubical shapes out there but the strong point is resembling the holy places is not a good practice, even Muslim scholars discourage the idea of having models of Mecca in your home. Its more like making public toilets in the shape of Vetican. I hope you all can understand.

By: EveryDigg » Blog Archive » Muslim Community Responds - We love the Apple NYC Cube

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:32:40 +0000

[...] After doing extensive research equal to what MEMRI did, Apple Gazette concludes that in reality muslism do love the apple NYC cube.read more | digg story Links [...]

By: Yehudit

Yehudit — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:26:28 +0000

“an oft-criticized group that supposedly translates Arabic media into english.”

It’s not “supposedly.” MEMRI has been translating Arab media into English for at least 10 years. They are known all over the world. No one has faulted their translations. At the most people have claimed they only translate extremist op-eds, films and such from the Arab world, not moderate – which is demonstrably not true if you look at their website for 5 minutes.

By: Subhan A

Subhan A — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:16:06 +0000

I am a devote Muslim and I love Mac. I am not offended by any such stuff. Even if they make a replica of Kabba it would be pleasant to see one.

Thank you for reporting the truth, even the NYPost bought this lie.

By: Robert Sharp » Blog Archive » The Fear mongering Metro

Robert Sharp » Blog Archive » The Fear mongering Metro — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:18:42 +0000

[...] This was all written last week, yet the Metro printed the initial, unchallenged allegations in today’s paper. I found the story via Andrew Sullivan, who was keen to pass on the initial claim, but also quick to link to the debunkings. Shame the Metro could not have done a few extra click-throughs, before ripping-off a story from the blogosphere. [...]

By: Real Live Muslim from Canada

Real Live Muslim from Canada — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:08:03 +0000

Fantastic!! Thank you for this!!

I love it when someone gives them a dose of their own medecine.

BTW I heard a christian say that the bite out of the Apple logo reminded them of original sin and therefore all true christians should boycott Apple. Can I get my sensationalist story on Fox News now?

Sincerely,
A Real Live Muslim from Canada.

By: Spinoza

Spinoza — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 20:08:19 +0000

MEMRI as far as I know is an Israeli propaganda outfit. Usually their translations are said to be accurate but what they chose to translate reflects a certain bias.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:31:26 +0000

read juan cole’s blog for some history on MEMRI. they’re just a propaganda outfit. their translations are usually – yes, usually – fraudulent. they just rewrite history and don’t worry that others will find their mistakes and correct them. they don’t care. their job is to get the first big rush of news because this is the way the media works. when the truth is outed later, it’ll be a back-pager and the media just won’t cover it with the same fervor.

can you say WMD?

By: smsc

smsc — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:11:25 +0000

What is interesting about this is the Macintosh platform supported non-roman languages far before the DOS operating system did.

Apple has been more responsive to the needs of the Arab-speaking world, where many Muslims live.

By: Right Truth

Right Truth — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:20:23 +0000

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