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Friday, 20 October 2006

Borat gets invited 'Home'.

Borat: Paris is full of Lovers

A top Kazakh official has an invitation for the British comedian whose depiction of a homophobic, misogynistic, English-mangling Kazakh journalist has outraged the Central Asian nation: come visit.

The Deputy Foreign Minister, Rakhat Aliyev, said in an interview published today that he understands why Kazakhs are unhappy about Sacha Baron Cohen's character, Borat.

"But we must have a sense of humour and respect other people's freedom of creativity," Mr Aliyev was quoted as saying by Kazakhstan Today.

"I'd like to invite Cohen here," he said. "He can discover a lot of things. Women drive cars, wine is made of grapes and Jews are free to go to synagogues."

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Though to some Cohen's antics are potentially more insulting to Americans, Kazakhs have long seethed at his popularity and his maligning of their country. Cohen's Borat character has presented inhabitants of the ex-Soviet republic as addicted to horse urine, fond of shooting dogs, and viewing rape and incest as respectable hobbies.

Kazakh officials have tried to respond to the outrageous descriptions.

The Foreign Ministry recently ran ads on CNN, in The New York Times, and the International Herald Tribune citing laudable - though slightly boring - facts and figures on the nation's economic growth, civil liberties and cultural achievements.

Kazakh officials are also wincing at the imminent US premiere of Cohen's full-length feature movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

"It's useless to offend an artist and threaten to sue him," Mr Aliyev was quoted as saying. "It will only further damage the country's reputation and make Borat even more popular."

References:
SMH: Kazakh invites Borat
Borats Official Home Page:Official Borat Homesite
Borats 'Myspace': Borat
Borat Clips:Yahoo
BoratMovie.com

Guess who is coming to Australia soon!

Bagelblogger is a fan of Borat.

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Now Gypsies want Borat banned

A German group representing Gypsies says it has filed a suit to try to stop British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen showing his latest film in Germany.

"We are accusing him of defamation and inciting violence against [Gypsies]," said Marko Knudsen, head of the European Centre of Antiziganism Research.

Antiziganism refers to hostility to gypsies.

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The group said it had filed a complaint to prosecutors over the film, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, saying it treated violence and discrimination against Gypsy peoples as acceptable behaviour.

State prosecutors in Hamburg will investigate the allegations before deciding whether to take action.

In the satirical film, which is due to open in Germany on November 2, Cohen, creator of the comic character Ali G, plays Borat Sagdiyev, a fictional Kazakh television journalist who travels to the United States to report back on the American way of life.

The film's comic barbs also target Gypsies, Jews, women and many other groups.

The complaint adds to a series of protests against Cohen's creation, whose comedy character's views are not only racist and anti-Semitic but also misogynist and homophobic.

Some of the most prominent criticism has come from Kazakhstan, Borat's central Asian homeland.

Knudsen's group has asked for an injunction to stop the film from being shown in Germany.

"We called the distributors, but they laughed at us," he said.

References:
SMH: NowGypsieswant Borat Banned [Reuters ]
Borats Official Home Page:Official Borat Homesite
Borats 'Myspace': Borat
Borat Clips:Yahoo
BoratMovie.com

Guess who is coming to Australia soon!

Bagelblogger is a fan of Borat.
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Thursday, 19 October 2006

Kazakistan Prints Money with Spelling Mistake

Not only that but who is this nobody head,
why not use my good head?

The Kazakhstan central bank has misspelled the word "bank" on its new notes.

The bank plans to put the misprinted notes - worth 2000 tenge ($20) and 5000 tenge ($50) - into circulation in November and then gradually withdraw them to correct the spelling.

The move has drawn the ire of the Central Asian state's politicians who urged the bank to abandon the notes altogether.

"The mistake ... is not just a spelling problem - it has political undertones," a letter from members of parliament to President Nursultan Nazarbayev said.

"We urge you to tell the National Bank not to put out the notes with a mistake in the Kazakh language."

BB: Rumor has it that apparently Borat is claiming that they have also put the wrong head on the notes.

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References:

SMH: Kazakh bank boo boo

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Wednesday, 18 October 2006

Indonesia has 18.7 Million Muslims that believe Violence and Jihad are Justified

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Around one in 10 Indonesian Muslims support jihad and justify bomb attacks on Indonesia's tourist island of Bali as defending the faith, a survey released on Sunday showed.

Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous country, with 220 million people, 85 percent of whom follow Islam, giving the Asian archipelago the largest Muslim population of any nation in the world.

"Jihad that has been understood partially and practiced with violence is justified by around one in 10 Indonesian Muslims," the Indonesian Survey Institute said in a statement.

"They approved the bombings conducted ... in Bali with the excuse of defending Islam," it added, saying the percentage of such support "is very significant."

While the vast majority of Indonesia's Muslims are relatively moderate, there has been an increasingly vocal militant minority and political pressure for more laws that are in line with hardline Muslim teachings.

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The poll surveyed a random sample of 1,092 Muslim men and women.

Bombings in Bali in October 2002 blamed on the militant Southeast Asian Jemaah Islamiah network killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists. Suicide blasts in Bali a year ago killed 20.

The survey found one in five Indonesian Muslims more generally supported the aims of Jemaah Islamiah -- an armed movement backing the creation of an Islamic superstate linking Muslim Indonesia and Malaysia, and Muslim areas in the Philippines and Thailand.

In the past, it has cooperated closely with al Qaeda's global anti-Western campaign, but in recent years many in Jemaah Islamiah have focused more on the regional struggle.

Indonesia has had a major attack against high profile Western-linked targets each year from 2002 through 2005. Authorities tied all the attacks to elements of Jemaah Islamiah.

Indonesia is not officially an Islamic state.
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If you extrapolate the sample of the population 1,092 and you use this figure of around 1 in ten Muslims believe Jihad is justified then:
[ignoring statistical error]
Total Population: 220 million
Percentage Muslim 85%=187 Million
% of Muslims 'Violent' = 10%
Therefore there are 18.7 Million Muslims that believe Jihad,.. is justified.

18.7 Million.

How do you feel now?
I'm a close neighbour to Indonesia.
Bagel

References:
Yahoo News: One in 10 Indonesia Muslims back violent jihad: poll

Grapes of Wrath Thanks for the tip!

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Tuesday, 17 October 2006

Israel's Ambassador to Australia called back to Jerusalem

From the AJN

ISRAELI Ambassador Nati Tamir, on his way back to Canberra following a short visit to Israel, has been recalled to Jerusalem to explain comments he reportedly made to a newspaper about Asians having "yellow skin and slanted eyes".
Tamir was reported to have made the comments in Ha'aretz last week before he departed from Israel.
He said Israel and Australia are "like sisters in Asia", because "we don't have yellow skin and slanted eyes".
Israel's Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned the remarks, saying Tamir had been recalled to clarify if he was accurately reported.
Spokeswoman Ilana Ravid said that Tamir, who has been in his post since January 2005, was called back to Jerusalem for a "further clarification".

Ravid said the fact that the ministry called Tamir back as he was en route to Australia was a measure of how seriously it took the matter.
She said Tamir had told the ministry his comments were not accurately reported.
Tamir was quoted in Ha'aretz as saying: "Israel and Australia are like sisters in Asia. We are in Asia without the characteristics of Asians. We don't have yellow skin and slanted eyes.
"Asia is basically the yellow race. Australia and Israel are not - we are basically the white race. We are on the western side of Asia and they are on the southeastern side."
The Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Friday saying that if the report was accurate, the remarks were "grave and unacceptable", and the ministry would not be able to carry on with "business as usual".
Tamir, who previously served as ambassador to Finland and also served in various posts in Washington, Tokyo and Strasbourg, is also Israel's non-resident ambassador to New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Fiji.

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Monday, 16 October 2006

Man Trampled to Death holding Free Hugs Sign

APPP: Bangladesh: Unconfirmd reports are coming in that A Man that held up a 'FREE HUGS' sign was trampled to death by 12,000 Religion of Peace activists today when the sign was mistakenly misundertood as spelling "Free Rugs" [END][satire]
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