The War On Pastries, Part II

The "Freedom Fries" copy-cat game, covered here and here previously, is apparently firming up. Michelle Malkin notes that the AP is now reporting that bakeries all across Iran are in fact renaming their Danish pastries in retaliation for the 12 cartoons.

Iranians love Danish pastries, but when they look for the flaky dessert at the bakery they now have to ask for "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad."

Bakeries across the capital were covering up their ads for Danish pastries Thursday after the confectioners' union ordered the name change in retaliation for caricatures of the Muslim prophet published in a Danish newspaper.

"Given the insults by Danish newspapers against the prophet, as of now the name of Danish pastries will give way to 'Rose of Muhammad' pastries," the union said in its order.

"This is a punishment for those who started misusing freedom of expression to insult the sanctities of Islam," said Ahmad Mahmoudi, a cake shop owner in northern Tehran.

One of Tehran's most popular bakeries, "Danish Pastries," covered up the word "Danish" on its sign with a black banner emblazoned "Oh Hussein," a reference to a martyred saint of Shiite Islam. The banner is a traditional sign of mourning.

So we have a group of people who tacitly approve of radicals from their culture burning down a McDonalds (and a poor KFC, among other things) over "offensive" cartoons, who then turn around and adopt a protest in the same image of that which epitomizes said fast food establishment - the french fry (a la "Freedom Fries").

And, not that I've ever heard Muslims really claim to take much offense to every suicide bomber or terrorist named Muhammed (the "religion of peace" being defiled by the radicals and all), but the American Princess makes another good point - "Perhaps this is a question best written off with a reference to what we've witnessed over the last several weeks, but why is it that they get their shorts in a knot over Muhammed cartoons, but have no qualms about eating him as a pastry? Isn't that just as blasphemous?"

I'd say this was the height of irony, but it's really just sad. The war nobody wanted just keeps on going.