Lego-Style Islamic Terrorist Figurine Sparks Outrage

[Guest Verbal Kint]

News Link : Fox News

Lego-Style Islamic Terrorist Figurine Sparks Outrage

The Islamic terrorist figurine called 'Mr. White' that has sparked controversy

A Lego-style figurine resembling an Islamic terrorist strapped with explosives and made by a small American company has caused an uproar among Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

The controversial miniature figure, created by Seattle-based Will Chapman as part of his BrickArms military fighters line, is a bearded militant with a face-covering hood, a tiny toy assault rifle, a little grenade launcher and plastic bombs that can be attached to an explosives belt.

The character is called "Bandit — Mr. White" and sells for $14.

The jarring toy has outraged the British Muslim organization known as the Ramadhan Foundation, which called the figurine "absolutely disgusting," according to Sky News.

The foundation's chief executive, Mohammed Shafiq, complained that the toy is "glorifying terrorism."

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"I don't think there's any difference between someone that shouts hatred through a megaphone and someone that creates a doll that glorifies terrorists," he told Sky.

"As a parent myself, I'm going to teach my children respect for the law and respect for each and every community. These are the lessons parents should be giving to their children — not lessons about weapons and violence."

Chapman, a father of three who operates the company from the Seattle suburb of Redmond, Wash., bristles at the notion that he is celebrating terrorism.

"We do not sell an 'Osama bin Laden' miniature figure," he wrote in an e-mail to FOXNews.com. "We sell a generic bad guy minifigure with a Ninja scarf head wrap, the same minifigure that we have been selling for over a year now, with no associated 'outrage.'

"It does not represent anything; it is simply a bandit — a bad guy for the good guys to battle. Attempt to assign it a 'personality' only serves to create controversy that does not exist."

On his Web site, he explains that his 9-year-old son gave him the idea for the toy line, which includes 31 different Lego-style weapons and a variety of military figurines.

He told FOXNews.com that BrickArms is a "family-owned and family-run business."

"We started in 2006, when one of our sons expressed an interest in military history and weaponry of the WW2 era," he wrote. "He wanted to recreate scenes from history, with his LEGO bricks and figures, so he and I designed the first of many of our BrickArms miniature toy weapon replicas."

Other figurines in the line are World War II fighters, U.S. Marines and even a Nazi SS officer.

LEGO issued a statement Thursday saying that the company isn't associated with the BrickArms toys.

"BrickArms is not licensed by LEGO Group to customize LEGO figures and has no links to the LEGO brand," the statement said.

"The LEGO Group is committed to developing toys which enrich childhood by encouraging imaginative and creative play — and does not endorse products that do not fit with this philosophy."

[Guest Astra900]

The MUSLIM TERRORIST toy is cool I want one!

Check out the Broomhandle Mauser in his right hand SAWEEET!!!

[Guest sermon8r]

i want some!!! none on eBay

[Guest Astra900]

http://brickarms.com/Toys/Minifigs.aspx

[poak]

To anyone that has a problem w/ this, I say:

Art imitates life. Deal with it.

[Guest truthsayer]

Got to the main page and look at the weapons packs. There's even a zombie defense pack.

Best. Site. Ever.

[Guest m&pc9]

I was watching fox news this morning and saw this toy, They were not happy with it. And said no one would want one of these. I thought I wouldn't mind having one and wouldn't have a problem buy one for my kids if they were of that age.

Im glad Im not the only one that feels this way. Im tired of the media telling me how I should feel about certain things. Its a Freaking toy. Besides G.I. Joe would kick his ASS all over the yard!

[Guest 153blue]

does it come as a bobble head? i want one lol

[Guest m&pc9]

That was the best advertising that you cant buy. All the news stations bi*ching about it.

They will be back ordered for months

[The Average Joe]

The MUSLIM TERRORIST toy is cool I want one!

Oh!, Hells Yes!.....I want one, too.

The site says they're backordered....I'm not surprised.

The Ramadhan Foundation is just in denial.

I've never seen Cowboys or Indians get offended by the little toy figures they make of them.

These camel jokeys just need to suck it up and face reality.

Although, the government isn't racial prophiling....toy companies are...

[Guest 153blue]

these little dolls are gonna piss em off and they are gonna launch a full fledged war on us over these lego toys...... LOL

[Guest Astra900]

Well, the media thinks they are doing the toy company a disservice by airing their discontent for it. THere is no such thing as bad press. I would never have known about it if not for their malcontent. Now I will go out of my way to have one along with thousands of other people. They won't quit making them as long as we keep buying them. I think it's a big silent FU to the media when they air like this, it only let's others know about the product when they never even knew it existed.

As soon as the wife gets home I'll have her put me on the backorder list!

[Punisher84]

That's sweeeet.

[Guest nraforlife]

LMAO... I want one

[Mike.357]

if the pricing was not borderline ridiculous I would order an entire set for my oldest grandson. H eloves action figures.

The grocery store up the street has a bin full of toys for $1 apiece. I looked through it last weekend. It was full of gun sets. I ended up buying the boy a 1911 looking dart gun and a bag of plastic army men. The dart gun is great, what a hoot. Now the army men came in the bag divided in two colors. There are gray men and green men. There were also two flags. One a USA and the other a German flag. The boy set up his armies on the fireplace hearth to do battle. How did he know the gray men were Germans and the green men US soldiers? He put the German flag behind the gray men and the US flag behind the green men. I do not think it was accidental either. Somehow he knew.

So anyway why is there not German people in an uproar of bags full of army men?

Screw the freakin Muslims. To borrow a phrase from Stonewall Jackson i say when the terrorist comes along, "Give him the bayonet".

Edited December 5, 2008 by Mike.357

[Guest 153blue]

+1 on the bayonet

[Sheepdog]

I want a Lego figure of a Muslim baby in a suicide bomb belt.

[Guest m&pc9]

I want a Lego figure of a Muslim baby in a suicide bomb belt.

now that is sad:(

[Guest bkelm18]

So anyway why is there not German people in an uproar of bags full of army men?

That would mean that they would have to acknowledge that WWI/II happened.

[Guest Verbal Kint]

That would mean that they would have to acknowledge that WWI/II happened.

[Guest bang-flash]

Bookmarked, I am definintely keeping an eye on these things.