"Freedom Fries"
Hello and Salaam All,
It's been awhile since we last posted. Irfan Ali/Robert is crazy busy with research and Sara has an ever-growing following for her English teaching. But after I popped in to our local bakery to get some sweets for Ms. Nouri's son's birthday, I noticed that they had gone through with the official pastry name change you all may have seen in the news and thought I'd give you a view from the ground.
Yes, much like our own bout with "Freedom Fries" the Danish cartoon debacle led to the renaming of the immensely popular Danish pastries in Iran (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060216/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_danish_pastries). "Danmarki"s are now "Gul-i Muhammad", loosely translated as "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad". Our bakery has a big "X" through "Danmarki", just so it's clear!
On the right, Sara's favorite "rollette"; on the left, two types of Gul-i Muhammad.
As for the cartoon issue, one of the best analyses I've seen comes from my internet colleague and fellow white-man-married-to-a-Pakistani-woman, Svend White. You can read his essay on his blog here--make sure you look for his further reflections and reader comments too:
http://akramsrazor.typepad.com/islam_america/2006/02/jp.html
Can't forget our fellow Axis of Evil blogger Brian--check out some of his thoughts on the cartoons and embassy burning in Syria here:
http://www.readingeagle.com/blog/syria/
It's been awhile since we last posted. Irfan Ali/Robert is crazy busy with research and Sara has an ever-growing following for her English teaching. But after I popped in to our local bakery to get some sweets for Ms. Nouri's son's birthday, I noticed that they had gone through with the official pastry name change you all may have seen in the news and thought I'd give you a view from the ground.
Yes, much like our own bout with "Freedom Fries" the Danish cartoon debacle led to the renaming of the immensely popular Danish pastries in Iran (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060216/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_danish_pastries). "Danmarki"s are now "Gul-i Muhammad", loosely translated as "Roses of the Prophet Muhammad". Our bakery has a big "X" through "Danmarki", just so it's clear!
On the right, Sara's favorite "rollette"; on the left, two types of Gul-i Muhammad.
As for the cartoon issue, one of the best analyses I've seen comes from my internet colleague and fellow white-man-married-to-a-Pakistani-woman, Svend White. You can read his essay on his blog here--make sure you look for his further reflections and reader comments too:
http://akramsrazor.typepad.com/islam_america/2006/02/jp.html
Can't forget our fellow Axis of Evil blogger Brian--check out some of his thoughts on the cartoons and embassy burning in Syria here:
http://www.readingeagle.com/blog/syria/
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