'Allahpundit' Complains About 'Blasphemous' Doritos Ad

Liberals are completely deluded about Islam in Britain and the existence of sectarianism
The English Defence League in action (Photo: PA) Liberal Conspiracy has a post playing down a story about conversions to Islam, one which almost perfectly encapsulates the liberal delusion over Islam: But more striking is the generational change the survey reveals. While 76.3% of people say they were raised as Christians, only 43.7% of people now identify as such. The real story, when it comes to British religion, is the number of people converting to godlessness. And while 2.3% of people were...

Frito-Lay won't pull controversial Christian parody Doritos commercial
Source: Washington Examiner In what may be another ad campaign gone awry, Doritos is featuring a new Super Bowl advertisement in which a priest, searching for ways to return to the church, has a supposedly brilliant idea: Replacing the host wafer with a Dorito. While the denomination of the church is unclear, what is clear is that most Christian denominations consider the host to be a big portion of communion and might find the commercial, titled "Feed your flock!", insensitive. A spokesman for ...

Frito-Lay won't pull controversial Christian parody Doritos commercial
In what may be another ad campaign gone awry, Doritos is featuring a new Super Bowl advertisement in which a priest, searching for ways to return to the church, has a supposedly brilliant idea: Replacing the host wafer with a Dorito. While the denomination of the church is unclear, what is clear is that most Christian denominations consider the host to be a big portion of communion and might find the commercial, titled "Feed your flock!", insensitive. A spokesman for Frito-Lay told The Examiner ...

Doritos Pulls "Anti-Christian" Ad
The "Jesus tastes like Doritos" ad I mentioned a couple of days ago has been pulled from the Super Bowl advertising contest and Fox News is delighted. Labels: advertising, religion, silliness New! Share this on Facebook: Share ...

Does 'Psshh' mark the spot for Super Bowl glory? Orlando man hopes so
"Psshh" – pass it on. You might help an Orlando man get his commercial featured during the Super Bowl. Brandy Gill made a commercial called "Zero Calories? Psshh," and it's now one of 10 finalists in the Crash the Super Bowl Challenge. The Psshh spot cost $30 to make. Gill, 36, directed his co-workers over a lunch hour, and co-worker Wes Sumner shot the commercial. "It took about an hour to shoot, and we did the editing in an hour on my Mac," Gill said. "Start to finish, we were done in t...

Doritos Ad Offends Christians
In what may be another ad campaign gone awry, Doritos is featuring a new Super Bowl advertisement in which a priest, searching for ways to return to the church, has a supposedly brilliant idea: Replacing the host wafer with a Dorito. While the denomination of the church is unclear, what is clear is that most Christian denominations consider the host to be a big portion of communion and might find the commercial, titled "Feed your flock!", insensitive. A spokesman for Frito-Lay told The Examiner ...

FTF?
Are Pepsi and Doritos mocking Christianity? Frannie Boyle of the Student Free Press Association has the story: One of ten finalists in their Super Bowl commercial competition entered a blasphemous little clip called “Feed the Flock.” In the commercial, a parish priest decides to start distributing Doritos and Pepsi products instead of Holy Communion in order to increase mass attendance. This commercial is not meant to be taken seriously, but I hope those running the competition under...

Foxs Megyn Kelly Hosts Doritos™ Versus Catholic Church Debate
Beloved munchie product Doritos has declared war on the Catholic Church- or so some devotees are interpreting their latest commercial, which depicts priests substituting the crispy corn snack for the Eucharist, and giving a sort of Doritos Communion. The ad, produced for the Super Bowl, didn’t quite make the cut,  but that doesn’t mean it’s not riling up the faithful. The idea for the ad, as Megyn Kelly explained to her audience on America Live today, was that the Church...

Doritos ad: 'God obviously has a sense of humor, he gave us the Democrat party'
"God obviously has a sense of humor, he  gave us the Democrat party," quipped Lars Larson, a syndicated radio host and Fox News contributor. Larson took the shot at Democrats as he slammed  a Controversial Doritos ad that is taking heat for allegedly mocking the  Catholic Church, being anti - Christian. Megyn Kelly made the point that if anyone did an ad, like the Dorito ad, mocking Islam, there would be a deafening outcry from the Muslim community.  In the ad, a priest is ag...

Video: The obligatory fan-created Doritos Super Bowl ad mocks Christian rite clip
Note well: This isn’t an ad that Doritos is running in the Super Bowl, just one that they posted on their website (and refused to remove) after a fan submitted it for their contest with Pepsi. The bad news? Even to an ex-Catholic like me, it feels cheap. Blasphemy in defense of principle, like free Speech, is welcome; blasphemy in the service of humor can be fun. Blasphemy to sell bags of Cool Ranch chips? Eh. They have every right, but aside from Richard Dawkins and maybe Hitch, whoR...

Happy Hour Vid: Is Doritos Mocking Christians? (The Atlantic Wire)
WASHINGTON, DC – Produced for the Super Bowl, Doritos debuted a fan-created TV ad featuring a pastor who gets parishioners to go to church by handing out Nacho Cheese flavored chips as communion bread (as opposed to the traditional thin wafers) and Pepsi as wine. The ad apparently has raised some eyebrows, Fox reporting it as "Controversial Dorito Ad Accused of Mocking Catholics" (though it's not immediately apparent that the ad is mocking Catholics rather than Christians in general*) an...

Blasphemy and Betrayal: The Murder of Salman Taseer
Anna Bigelow is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies at North Carolina State University. "You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your Mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the State." Would that Jinnah had survived longer (he died in 1948) to secure that principle in Pakistani society. Instead, t...

Roses for Pakistan Governor's Killer
Salmaan Taseer ChronLAHORE, Pakistan — Lawyers showered the suspected killer of a prominent Pakistani Governor with rose petals when he arrived at court Wednesday and an influential Muslim scholars group praised the Assassination of the outspoken opponent of laws that order death for those who insult Islam. Punjab. Gov. Salman Taseer's killing has sent tremors through the ranks of Pakistan's already embattled Progressives and rights Activists. Thousands gathered to mourn the politician at his ...

Sharon Kelly: Pakistani Killing Latest in Deadly Debate around "Blasphemy Laws"
The recent Murder of Pakistani Governor Salman Taseer for opposing Blasphemy laws tragically showcases the high stakes of the fight for religious tolerance and against Extremism. Salman Taseer, Governor of Punjab, Pakistan and a member of the nation's ruling Pakistan People's Party, was allegedly murdered by a member of his security team as a result of his opposition to Blasphemy laws and for speaking out against the proposed death sentence of a Christian woman, Aasia Bibi, accused of blasphem...

Pakistani religious groups cheer killing of governor
Islamabad, Pakistan — The increasing Radicalization of Pakistani society was laid bare Wednesday when the nation's mainstream religious organizations applauded the Murder of provincial Governor Salman Taseer earlier this week, while his killer was showered with rose petals as he appeared in court. Taseer, 66, the Governor of Punjab, the country's most heavily populated province, was assassinated Tuesday by one of his police Bodyguards after Taseer had campaigned to ease Pakistan&...

Exposing the cracks
Punjab Governor Salman Taseer was one of Pakistan's most well-known political figures, but his death has revealed much more about this country than just its politics.  It has exposed the deep fissure that runs through society here, and some signs of the direction in which this country appears to be heading.  There are still questions as to whether Mumtaz Qadri, the assassin, and one of the governor's own Bodyguards acted alone, or with the backing of a radical movement. ...

500 Islamic clerics and scholars misunderstand Islam, praise murderer of Pakistani governor who opposed blasphemy law
"Qadri had 'revived the 14-century-old traditions of Islam' and made Muslims around the world proud," said their statement. They must be a gang of greasy Islamophobes. "Salman Taseer's killer an Islamic warrior: Pakistani clerics," from PTI, January 5: A group of over 500 Pakistani scholars and clerics have described the policeman who gunned down the Punjab Governor Salman Taseer as a 'Ghazi' and have warned against any expression of sympathy for slain PPP leader, saying it would tantamount to...

Pakistans blasphemy law strikes fear in minorities
 On Tuesday, the Governor of the most populous state of Punjab, Salman Taseer, who had strongly opposed the law and sought presidential pardon for the 45-year-old Christian farmhand, was gunned down by one of his Bodyguards. Here some facts about the Blasphemy law and its fallout. * The law has its roots in 19th century colonial Legislation to protect places of worship, but it was during the Military Dictatorship of General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq in the 1980s that it acquired teeth as part of ...

Muslim scholars heap praise on Pakistan governor's killer
THE self-confessed killer of a prominent Pakistani Governor was showered with rose petals as he arrived at court yesterday, and an influential Muslim scholars group praised the Assassination of the outspoken opponent of the country's strict Blasphemy laws. • A Pakistani greets Mumtaz Qadri, third from right, the alleged killer of Punjab's Governor Salman Taseer, as he arrives at a court in Islamabad yesterday. Picture: AP Mumtaz Qadri, 26, made his first appearance in an Islamabad court, wh...

Pakistan governor buried, clerics warn against grief
By Michael Georgy Islamabad | Wed Jan 5, 2011 7:00pm EST Islamabad (Reuters) - A politician gunned down over his opposition to Pakistan's Blasphemy laws was buried on Wednesday after a Murder likely to cow further those pushing for a more liberal and Secular vision of Pakistani society. Five hundred Pakistani religious scholars said that anyone who expressed grief over the Assassination of Salman Taseer, Governor of Punjab province, could suffer the same fate. Taseer, a liberal politician clo...

Pakistan: More Than 500 Muslim Clerics Praise Man Who Assassinated Governor of Largest Province For Opposing Blasphemy Laws
Pakistan is doomed. Lahore, Pakistan (AP)— Lawyers showered rose petals over the suspected killer of a prominent Pakistani Governor when he arrived at court Wednesday and an influential Muslim scholars group praised the Assassination of the outspoken opponent of laws that order death for those who insult Islam. More than 500 clerics and scholars from the group Jamat Ahle Sunnat said no one should pray or express regret for the killing of Punjab province Gov. Salman Taseer. The group repres...

Morning Brief: Tensions high for Punjab governor's funeral
Why Isn't Obama Pressuring the Palestinians? - by Steven J. Rosen Why Do Coptic Christians Celebrate Christmas on a Different Day? - by Joshua E. Keating The Middle East Channel: Why isn't Obama pressuring the Palestinians? Top story: Pakistani security forces were on high alert ahead for the burial of the Punjab Governor who was assassinated by his own Bodyguard on Tuesday. 66-year-old Salman Taseer was reportedly killed because of his opposition to Pakistan's Blasphemy laws and his advocacy...

Pakistani governor murdered for opposing blasphemy law was killed by member of 'moderate' Muslim group
(AKI/DAWN) "Pakistan: Punjab Governor's assassin 'linked to Islamic group":The Pakistani Elite Force guard who on Tuesday shot dead Punjab governor Salman Taseer is said to be associated with 'Dawat-i-Islami', a non-political and non-violent religious group close to a moderate Sunni Muslim sect. Taseer's self-confessed killer, Mumtaz Qadri, was associated with the moderate Barelvi sect, according to one his colleagues. The Barelvis originated in India in the 19th century to defend traditional Is...

Assassination Generates More Threats in Pakistan
Worries over Pakistan's future deepened dramatically after Tuesday's Assassination of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer by one of his own Bodyguards. The guard says he did it because of Taseer's opposition to Blasphemy laws which allow executions for people who insult Islam. While some mourn the loss of "a voice of tolerance in society," an Islamist group considered moderate used the Murder and Wednesday's Funeral to issue a threat against Taseer's allies. The Jamaat-e-Ahl-Sunnat, which opposes the...

Morning Brief: Tensions high for Punjab governor's funeral
Why Isn't Obama Pressuring the Palestinians? - by Steven J. Rosen Why Do Coptic Christians Celebrate Christmas on a Different Day? - by Joshua E. Keating The Middle East Channel: Why isn't Obama pressuring the Palestinians? Top story: Pakistani security forces were on high alert ahead for the burial of the Punjab Governor who was assassinated by his own Bodyguard on Tuesday. 66-year-old Salman Taseer was reportedly killed because of his opposition to Pakistan's Blasphemy laws and his advocacy...