http://www.n-tv.de/panorama/Muslime-wol ... 09776.html

(German link)

The Austrian Muslim community wants to sue Lego for producing an "educationally reprehensible" model of the Hagia Sophia mosque in Instanbul and filling it with "evil characters".

The model in question? The Jaba the Hut's Palace from the Episode 6.

Whilst Lego claim that it is based entirely on the design of the Palace from the film and has no intentional likeness to the mosque, that isn't good enough for the Austrian muslim communinty, they want the product banned.

They claim it is educationally explosive and sedition against the muslim community.

Whilst Lego say that the model is based on George Lucas' film set, the Community claims that it is a 1-1 copy of the Hagia Sopia and the tower looks like a minaret. They also claim, that the characters in the building are heavily armed (guns, rocket launchers etc.) and represents the Muslim faith as potentially violent.

The figure in the minaret is a "criminal with axe and machine gun," not to mention Jabba himself, the worm-like, water pipe smoking master of the house! In the Star Wars universe, he is after all, a terrorist, slave trader and murderer.

Lego released a press statement, saying that they find it regretful, that the Muslim community feels attacked by this model, which is not based on any non-fictional building, people or the mentioned mosque. In addition, Lego feel themselves commited to producing the models of the Star Wars sets as accurately as possible to the film originals. In other words, if the Muslim community wants to sue somebody, they should bloody well start with Lucasfilm! (My translation, not the original Lego wording.)

I agree - why haven't they gone after Lucasfilm? This just shows them in a negative light.

Oh, dear. Why has it taken them this long to come to this conclusion?

Here's an English link: http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com ... efamation/

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/p ... 076633.htm

There's two things particularly offensive about it - how sh1te it is and the price!

Why don't they just take off their stupidity hat and not go after anyone.

If anything in this is bad for Islam it's the fact that they're trying to sue at all.

F*cking idiots.

A Twi'lek but no slave Leia?

Is there a reason it's just the Turkish Muslims and not Muslims worldwide?

The Hagia Sophia isn't particularly important to Muslims outside Turkey. That name is Greek, it was constructed a Byzantine emperor, and it was a Christian cathedral for about a thousand years. It predates Islam by centuries, and only became a mosque in the 15th C when the Turks took Constantinople and added minarets. So for most of its history thus far, it was a church.

The design has been copied in other places, I'm sure they like it plenty; but most Muslims care about two mosques in Mecca, one in Medina, and of course that slightly more troublesome one in Jerusalem far above any other.

I only think that they are concerned about getting some money.

And why it is ex-pat Turkish Muslims, not Turkish Muslims in Turkey...