Does Jabba the Hut's Palace Look Like a Mosque?

[DicedT]

I track this kind of craziness, but this one threw me for a loop. http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2013/04/04/does-jabba-the-huts-palace-really-look-like-a-mosque/

Michael

[Longdan]

Well I dunno Mike....that Hagia Sofia has those rocket ships on it, or are they stylised ICBM's?
Shouldn't it be a Museum group that complains that it makes Museum Curators look like Hutt Cartel crooks? With bongs?
And an eating disorder.  Jabba does, in fact, resemble a whole bunch of people who watch and star in Here Comes Honey BooBoo.
There seems to be a lot of angst to go around.  What about that Sarlacc thing and violent feminists?  And all those spermy Xwings trying
to penetrate that Death Ovum?  Man this is one can of worms of an analogy minefield.

[DicedT]

Actually, as I wrote, some of Lucas' ethnic-style characterizations in The Phantom Menace concern me. Not in the racist sense so much as just lazy writers relying on cheap stereotypes.
But the fuss over the palace makes no sense. I think Lego said that it only appears in one scene in the movie (Star Wars-heads, check me if I'm wrong). Since Muslim (actually, Arabic) culture tends to be desert-centric, it's not a surprise that a movie set in the desert would have Middle Eastern architecture. Maybe not super-creative, but hardly racist.

Michael

[undercovergeek]

I track this kind of craziness, but this one threw me for a loop. http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2013/04/04/does-jabba-the-huts-palace-really-look-like-a-mosque/

Michael

does anyone, apart from pissed off muslims with fk all else to moan about but another westernised conspiracy theory, really give a s***?

not a go at you - just the usual 'were being repressed and misrepresented' shite that makes them look far more ridiculous than if they acknowledged it and said ' hey that looks like the hagi sofia, wow, but noone cares'?

and do you know what?

noone cares!!!!!!

[GDS_Starfury]

as long as we all agree that evil people have Britsh accents.

[undercovergeek]

as long as we all agree that evil people have Britsh accents.

agreed

apart from James Earl Jones

[Bison]

Frankly I'm tired of all the catering to islamic bluster.  When they stop beheading Christians, throwing acid in the faces of women, and a myriad of other much more offensive behaviors I'll give a damn what they think.

[eyebiter]

Jabba's palace in Star Wars Galaxies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvmmowla76E

Brings back memories, travelling from Bestine to Jabba's.

[Longdan]

Well you can do a lot of things with accents and not all of them good.  When I was a kid I couldn't figure out why all the Germans
on TV spoke English with a German accent or English with and English accent.  I must say I was pretty amused when the not-so-bright
pixies in Willow had identifiably Quebecois accents.  Now that was funny!  If you were from Quebec maybe not so much.  Cent40 would know better.
Look at all the people flipping out about The Golden Compass they were so upset about what might have been the Church
that they did not even notice it was a sh*tty movie that nobody went to anyway.  Can't say I care much for christians or moslems as such.
But that is just me.  Nobody gives my faith the least respect.

[bayonetbrant]

http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=4411.msg104708#msg104708

[Gusington]

The one ridiculous stereotype I remember in Star Wars was in the Phantom Menace...the blue junk dealer with the giant nose.

[Bison]

You mean Watto and his sidekick Willow?

[Martok]

^  Heh. 

I track this kind of craziness, but this one threw me for a loop. http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2013/04/04/does-jabba-the-huts-palace-really-look-like-a-mosque/

Michael

does anyone, apart from pissed off muslims with fk all else to moan about but another westernised conspiracy theory, really give a s***?

not a go at you - just the usual 'were being repressed and misrepresented' shite that makes them look far more ridiculous than if they acknowledged it and said ' hey that looks like the hagi sofia, wow, but noone cares'?

and do you know what?

noone cares!!!!!!

+1 to this. 

Frankly I'm tired of all the catering to islamic bluster.  When they stop beheading Christians, throwing acid in the faces of women, and a myriad of other much more offensive behaviors I'll give a damn what they think.

Also, this. 

[Gusington]

That's the guy. When the movie came out there was hallabaloo about that thing being Jewish and representing 1000 stereotypes.

[Bison]

Huh.   I hadn't hear that.