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Quote of the Day: Turkish Cultural Community of Austria

Ron Ribiat

(RNS) “The terrorist Jabba the Hutt likes to smoke a hookah and have his victims killed. 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 Turkish Cultural Community of Austria, in a statement quoted by The Telegraph, about a Lego toy set of Jabba the Hutt’s palace that the Muslims say looks too much like the revered Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul.

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