{"id":11782,"date":"2010-03-07T17:23:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T17:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/07\/the-islamic-car-and-some-parodies\/"},"modified":"2010-03-07T17:23:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T17:23:59","slug":"the-islamic-car-and-some-parodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/03\/07\/the-islamic-car-and-some-parodies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Islamic Car and Some Parodies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/font>Malaysia, Iran and Turkey plan to build an "Islamic car" fitted with a compass to find the direction of Mecca, and a compartment to keep the Koran in, the Malaysian state news agency said.
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This invites parody.<\/p>\n

Islamic Car, Turkish kismet model<\/em>: Very economical inasmuch as it is devoid of all safety features. Reflects the popular belief that "when  your number is up, your number is up." But the Nazar Boncuk comes  standard.<\/p>\n

Buddhist car<\/em>: This amphibious vehicle is specially equipped to transport its passengers across the river of Samsara.<\/p>\n

Mahayana model<\/em>: This Buddhist SUV is known as the "Greater Vehicle" because of its superior cargo capacity.<\/p>\n

Hinayana model<\/em>: This Buddhist subcompact, popularly known as the "Lesser Vehicle," conducts to the same ultimate destination as the Greater Vehicle but with greater fuel economy.<\/p>\n

Hezbollah Hummer<\/em>: Specially designed to explode upon impact.<\/p>\n

Luther's Lemon<\/em>: The attempt to power this baby on faith alone (sola fide<\/em>) resulted in a vehicle that works not.<\/p>\n

Commie Car<\/em>: Designed for "people not profits," this unreliable  contraption delivers neither.<\/p>\n

Catholic car<\/em>: This vehicle features an onboard navigation system  premised on the truth that "all roads lead to Rome."<\/p>\n

Mao's Maserati<\/em>: This sports car, produced by slave labor under the watchful eye of Italian designers, is available only to high Party officials. It makes a "great leap forward" in under ten seconds.<\/p>\n

Gorbachev's Covertible<\/em>: This vehicle featured plenty of glasnost<\/em>, but  like the Edsel, was soon out of production.<\/p>\n

The Mormon Machine<\/em>: Features a special jump seat for spare wives, but the beverage holders are conspicuous by their absence.<\/p>\n

The Race Car<\/em>: A liberal favorite, the Race Car conducts one to a racial destination no matter what the starting point.<\/p>\n

The Bright Car<\/em>: Dan Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and their fellow 'brights' drive these. They exhibit a marvelous design that came about through the marvel of blind engineering.
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According to this source, Malaysia, Iran and Turkey plan to build an "Islamic car" fitted with a compass to find the direction of Mecca, and a compartment to keep the Koran in, the Malaysian state news agency said.This invites parody. Islamic Car, Turkish kismet model: Very economical inasmuch as it is devoid of all safety … Continue reading “The Islamic Car and Some Parodies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}