Word: mocking
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...After a mock spelling bee, a dating game with three HPT members dressed as “Wellesley girls,” and the performance of the modified “Razzle Dazzle,” Gere was finally given a bra and presented with the Pudding Pot, as per tradition...
Last semester, controversy erupted over a parody published on The Salient’s back page, which featured a mock ad of a Fulla doll, a Barbie imitation doll sold in the Middle East. The ad suggested that the doll, which is sold with Islamic dress, says programmed phrases such as, “Human Rights? That’s silly,” and “Yes, husband...
...week earlier, two members of the far-right British National Party, on trial for slamming Islam as "vicious" and "wicked" to whip up racial hatred, were acquitted. And police made no arrests at an anticartoon demonstration by militant Islamists, despite slogans that called for the extermination of those who mock Islam...
...this issue than the petition signer whom Bronshtein quotes. By conflating all protesters’ views with the simplistic views of a single petition signer with poor spelling and poor grammar, Bronshtein sets up a “straw man” that is that much easier to mock and attack than the real thing...
...result was an astonishing uproar in the Muslim world, one of those revealing moments when the gulf between our world and theirs seems unbridgeable. Boycotts of European goods are in force; demonstrators in London held up signs proclaiming EXTERMINATE THOSE WHO MOCK ISLAM and BE PREPARED FOR THE REAL HOLOCAUST; the editor of the French newspaper France-Soir was fired for reprinting the drawings; Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the publication; and protesters set fire to the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus. The Egyptian ambassador to Denmark expressed disbelief that the government would not prevent further reprinting. Freedom...