Remember "Freedom Fries"?
When France refused to be sucked into needlessly invading Iraq, many fools on the right decided they wanted to change the name of 'French' fries to 'freedom fries'.
Some Republican congressmen (Bob Ney-tao) went public with their ridiculous and childish behavior and of course, their constituents, being the sheep they are, starting using the phrase 'freedom fries'. Like that was really going to bother the French.
Not only did the French not care, but they, led by their president, Jacques Chirac, came out of the Iraq Fiasco smelling like roses! Chirac proved to be a whole lot smarter than Dubya and 99.9% of the fools in this country that went along.
Now, we have the Iranians acting like Republicans in that they are now going to call a type of 'Danish pastry', that's common in Iran, the "Roses of the Prophet Mohammad".
As I have said many times. The Republican base in this country, the religious and social zealots, are mostly just another form of 'Taliban'. Right wing zealots, whether here or there, have intrusive and antipathetic ways of thinking that actually parallel each other very closely.
Iranians 'Echo' Republicans in Cartoon Row "Not content with pelting European embassies with petrol bombs to protest against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, Iranians have decided to rename the "Danish pastries" relished by this nation of cake lovers. From now on, the sweet, flaky pastries which dominate the shelves in Iran's cake shops will be known as "Roses of the Prophet Mohammad," the official IRNA news agency reported as pressure on Denmark over the cartoons took on a new dimension. The Iranian move had echoes of the verbal food fight set off by restaurants in the U.S. House of Representatives which renamed "French fries" and "French toast" as "Freedom fries" and "Freedom toast" after France refused to back the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003".
