Source- Austria’s Turkish community said the model was based on Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul and that the accompanying figures depicted Asians and Orientals as people with “deceitful and criminal personalities.”
The Turkish Cultural Community of Austria released a statement calling for Lego to apologise for affronting religious and cultural feelings.
The anger was provoked by “Jabba’s Palace”, a model of the home of Jabba the Hutt from Lego’s Star Wars product range based on the blockbusting series of science fiction films.
Jabba is the large slug-like creature who holds Han Solo captive in the film Return of the Jedi, and his palace is the setting for several crucial scenes, including using Princess Leia as his slave.
Jabba’s domed home and accompanying watchtower bear, according to the statement, an unwanted resemblance to Istanbul’s great Hagia Sophia, and another mosque in Beirut.
Austria’s Turkish community also took issue with the figures that went with the palace, including Jabba.
“The terrorist Jabba the Hutt likes to smoke a hookah and have his victims killed,” said the statement posted on the organisation’s website.
“It is clear that the ugly figure of Jabba and the whole scene smacks of racial prejudice and vulgar insinuations against Asians and Orientals as people with deceitful and criminal personalities.”
The crimes associated with the figures, the statements adds, include terrorism, slavery, murder and human sacrifice.
Those sneaky Lego Asians with their deceitful and criminal personalities.
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I've never seen two faces more hardened by a life of crime.
This article pretty much speaks for itself on how people all over the world love to call racism. Someone needs to clue Turkey in that you need to be important to have racist jokes at your expense. Or at least be connected to America. (Looking at you Mexico) Apparently to the Turkish Cultural Community of Austria Jabba puffing a hookah and having victims killed are equal crimes. Killing is one thing but once you involve a hookah, you get that pesky terrorist label.
Austria’s Turkish community also took issue with the figures that went with the palace, including Jabba.
“The terrorist Jabba the Hutt likes to smoke a hookah and have his victims killed,” said the statement posted on the organisation’s website.
“It is clear that the ugly figure of Jabba and the whole scene smacks of racial prejudice and vulgar insinuations against Asians and Orientals as people with deceitful and criminal personalities.”
The crimes associated with the figures, the statements adds, include terrorism, slavery, murder and human sacrifice.
Those sneaky Lego Asians with their deceitful and criminal personalities.
I've never seen two faces more hardened by a life of crime.
This article pretty much speaks for itself on how people all over the world love to call racism. Someone needs to clue Turkey in that you need to be important to have racist jokes at your expense. Or at least be connected to America. (Looking at you Mexico) Apparently to the Turkish Cultural Community of Austria Jabba puffing a hookah and having victims killed are equal crimes. Killing is one thing but once you involve a hookah, you get that pesky terrorist label.
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