Why you might want to buy a Chevrolet
An Egyptian shiekh has issued a fatwah against Chevrolets. "And I think to myself, what a wonderful world..."Let's go to the videotape.
A Salafi sheikh in Egypt has reportedly issued a fatwa that buying [or driving] a Chevrolet vehicle is haram because the American brand’s logo looks like the Christian cross.
In the video below, prominent Egyptian TV presenter Amr Adeeb takes the sheikh’s joke-of-a-fatwa to task, saying, “We’ve reached a really strange place with this.”
“The car’s been around [for a century] and only now did you notice there’s a cross on the car?”
Adeeb also notes that the car is not used or presented as a form of religious iconography: “Do we hold mass for it? Do we pray for it?” And his guest chimes in with a comment about the self-centered nature of the fatwa itself: “As if the people who came up with the logo were thinking that we want to put this special logo on the car just to piss us [Muslims] off?”
The TV presenter concludes, “With all of the problems in Egypt, you’re concerned about the cross?... We’re calling for unity [in the country] and then you come up with [fatwas] like this?”
And two months ago, I bought a new car.... A Chevrolet Aveo (manufactured in South Korea - sorry).
By the way, the logo is not meant to be a cross. Read the whole thing.
Labels: Chevrolet, Egypt, fatwa
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:46 AM
5 Comments:
If it wasn't government motors....I would
Its actually a bowtie emblem. Some people like this Sheikh don't bother to do basic research.
I used to own a Chevy Nova. Well made muscle car.
Actually I used to believe that many men worshiped their Chevys the way they treated and talked about them.
Now we just have to put crosses on all the other cars so Muslims won't buy them.
And we should take the crosses off of the Volt and give them to the Egyptians.
Hope that TV presenter doesn't get killed for his remarks!
Ditto Joe Potillor! after all the US tax payer money that has been poured into GM, I am also inclined to boycott the car-maker. Their UK version, Vauxhall, is rubbish!!
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