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
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