Muslim Rage the twitter hashtag

Sep 20, 2012 10:19


'Muslim Rage' Explodes On Twitter, But In A Funny Way (Yes, Really)

by Bill Chappell

Reaction to the Innocence of Muslims film and the violence it sparked has ranged from confusion and anger to the fear of possible reprisals against religious groups. And now, on Twitter, at least, humor has managed to coalesce around an unlikely hashtag: #muslimrage.

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fenris_lorsrai September 20 2012, 19:06:15 UTC

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vvalkyri September 20 2012, 19:46:49 UTC
yeah i loved the ski turban one.

had a convo with a coworker who was telling me about getting up at quarter to 4 to have breakfast during Ramadan, and realized that the lack of calendar fixing probably is directly related to Saudi being sufficiently equatorial that it doesn't matter nearly so much there.

(just played with googlemaps and the very most north part is about on par with florida. what's neat is i had Traffic turned on and Jedda is enabled!)

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othellia September 20 2012, 22:14:39 UTC
“Ramadan in Iceland when days are 23 hours long. #muslimrage” - @iron_emu

Ooh, that sucks. You think they would've eventually done something about that, most religions wanting to go global and all.

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supermouse September 20 2012, 22:59:12 UTC
They have, there are websites with accepted 'dawn' and 'dusk' times for countries where fasting would be an undue hardship otherwise.

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girly123 September 20 2012, 23:27:57 UTC
Get angry when the self proclaimed MSN Messenger pops up. There can be no other Messenger! #MuslimRage -@_amroali

The waiter didn't tell me the meat i was eating was pork; I was so angry I dropped my glass of wine. #MuslimRage -@elhelwy

This is so great.

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