Re: Malaysia plans to build a ‘Muslim Car’
This face recognition policy that you speak of, how would that work for someone, say, who’s got 3+ wives? Will it take different women as “cheating on his wife” or will it be understanding and store 4 women’s faces and any additional new woman will be taken as “cheating” and a direct phone call to all wives will be placed by the car?
Anyhow. It can’t beat my car.
Re: Malaysia plans to build a ‘Muslim Car’
haan bachoo, it will be linked to various databases to ascertain the relationships between people in the car..and if it senses hanky panky, the ministry of vice and virtue would be sent a live picture from the car and its coordinates so they can come over and take care of the perps.
btw, be careful do not buy the EX version of the car that will be assembled in Iraq, afghanistan and West Bank, they tend to explode in crowds.
Re: Malaysia plans to build a 'Muslim Car'
Now if they come up with certain financing that would be in line with Islamic beliefs* than one could perhaps call it a "Muslim" car if you will...but adding superficial features and slapping a religious identity on it is ridiculous.
Its just like "ISlamic clothing"...clothes are clotehs, its how one waers it mostly that it is what a true Muslim would wear or not wear...
sigh
I'm actually annoyed with you for this post, which is a shame because you are a nice person.
BUT
Just because you don't find something in the United States where you live, does not mean that it does not exist. In both Malaysia (where this car is made) and in the Middle-East (where they are probably hoping to sell a lot of them), there is a very large, very established industry in Islamic Car Financing, offering car payment schemes that are certified as halal by a committee of ulema.
Re: Malaysia plans to build a 'Muslim Car'
I am working on a Muslim Web Browser - with built in prayer times, also a Muslim IM client with built in "Muslim" buddy (or brotherhood) option so you can distinguish between your friends easily....
What i don't understand is why can't we make things for the whole mankind? whats wrong with a business plan/model that can target the whole world as our customers? why are we Muslims so afraid to tackle the global market?
Re: Malaysia plans to build a 'Muslim Car'
I bet this car wont have a stereo system.... ???? :p
Re: Malaysia plans to build a 'Muslim Car'
^ you are right. Instead, the car will have a mega phone.
Re: Malaysia plans to build a 'Muslim Car'
I bet this car wont have a stereo system.... ???? :p
no actually it will, with a harddrive that pronounces adhan at prayer times.
Re: Malaysia plans to build a 'Muslim Car'
ha ha hi hi...??
shame on you...shameful. mod muslims demonstrating their enlighetened moderation by making fun of their religion. dub marro sab.
Re: Malaysia plans to build a 'Muslim Car'
no one is making fun of the religion, just the car. Chill dude.
Re: Malaysia plans to build a 'Muslim Car'
ha ha hi hi...??
shame on you...shameful. mod muslims demonstrating their enlighetened moderation by making fun of their religion. dub marro sab.
Just to say this you had to sign on with a different ID? Awwwww.
Re: Malaysia plans to build a 'Muslim Car'
so did you.
Re: Malaysia plans to build a 'Muslim Car'
could all the mulitnicks please go fight in a different thread?
so where were we with this car...
Re: Malaysia plans to build a 'Muslim Car'
so did you.
Actually no, I've been signed in with this nick since this morning.
X2 - We were trying to tackle the issue where a man may cheat on his wives.
Re: Malaysia plans to build a 'Muslim Car'
It seems to be a trend with Malaysia as of late – they’re trying to portray the image of a scientifically advanced and progressive Islamic country. First, the guidelines package for their astronaut who went into space in Ramadan… most clerics who read the guidelines agreed that there was nothing “new” about the guidelines. Now the “Muslim Car”… a concept that may actually prove very feasible if pursued a little more logically and perhaps marketed a little differently. On the outset, the proposed features offer no value-added… they are marginally useful though… the additional compass identifier for Makkah and the additional space for the Quran are conveniences… they need to augment these with core features.
May be they should come up with an industrial design for a car with some valuable features, patent the design and sell it to manufacturers who can incorporate these elements into models that are marketed in the middle-east. IMHO, this would be the more logical thing to do.
Re: Malaysia plans to build a 'Muslim Car'
sigh
I'm actually annoyed with you for this post, which is a shame because you are a nice person.
BUT
Just because you don't find something in the United States where you live, does not mean that it does not exist. In both Malaysia (where this car is made) and in the Middle-East (where they are probably hoping to sell a lot of them), there is a very large, very established industry in Islamic Car Financing, offering car payment schemes that are certified as halal by a committee of ulema.
Alright, I should clarify.... I never meant that Islamic financing does not exist at all, but I was trying to make the point, that how do superficial features make a car a certain "religion"?
Re: Malaysia plans to build a 'Muslim Car'
Too bad Protons are utter crap to begin with.
Re: Malaysia plans to build a ‘Muslim Car’
yes, and the car will explode if a non-muslim gets inside. 
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^ automatic check of Iman
Re: Malaysia plans to build a 'Muslim Car'
Actually no, I've been signed in with this nick since this morning.
X2 - We were trying to tackle the issue where a man may cheat on his wives.
yeah so as I said, it will have biometric identification linked with family databases to determine ne mehram status of the people in the car, or it will not move and call ministry of vie and virtue while broadcasting live images from the car to the ministry, and loud announcments from the car that na mehrams are attempting to drive off in te car.
may no work in mutta situations though :D
runs away before saracen shows up
Re: Malaysia plans to build a ‘Muslim Car’
Here we go.
A Muslim Plane
:omg:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saudi_luxury_jet
Saudi prince buying ‘flying palace’ jet
By BARBARA SURK and ANNA JOHNSON, Associated Press Writers Mon Nov 12, 5:53 PM ET
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - In the annals of excess, it could be a new high: a more than $300 million, super-sized luxury airplane, bought and outfitted solely for the private comfort of a Saudi Arabian billionaire.
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Once done, the Airbus A380, the world’s biggest passenger plane, will be a “flying palace” for Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the manufacturer announced Monday.
Airbus SAS would not give a specific price tag for the VIP double-decker jet, with its football field-length wings, saying only that it would cost more than the aircraft’s list price of $320 million.
That doesn’t even include the money the prince will spend to custom fit the nearly 6,000-square foot plane to include whatever he wants. The options include private bedrooms, a movie theater or even a gym with a jacuzzi. He’ll also need a flight crew of about 15 to operate the luxury liner.
“Prince Alwaleed is the first, and so far the only customer of this aircraft,” said David Velupillai, the spokesman of the Airbus, which announced the luxury order at the Dubai International Airshow.
It’s all just spending cash for bin Talal — Citigroup Inc.'s biggest individual shareholder and the world’s 13th richest person with assets around $20 billion.
As a member of the Saudi royal family, he benefits from the country’s vast oil wealth. But much of bin Talal’s huge fortune comes from his investment firm, the $25-billion Kingdom Holding Co., which has stakes in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., Fairmont Raffles Hotels International Inc., Time Warner Inc., Apple Inc., PepsiCo Inc., Walt Disney Co. to name a few major corporations.
The prince, who is in his early 50s, appears to have a taste for super-sized jumbo jets. He already is the only private owner of a Boeing 747-400, Airbus said.
“It’s like buying a new car or a new TV,” Velupillai told The Associated Press. “One wants something bigger and better.”
Airbus would not release many details about bin Talal’s VIP A380, which dwarfs the 747 — formerly the world’s most spacious plane. Staff who answered the phone at bin Talal’s office on Monday in Saudi Arabia said he was unavailable to comment.
The commercial A380, which made its maiden voyage with Singapore Airlines last month, is as tall as a seven-story building with each wing big enough to hold 70 cars. It is capable of carrying 853 passengers in an all-economy class configuration.
Take out the seats, and the plane can be transformed into a flying mansion.
Germany’s Lufthansa Technik, which declined to comment Monday on bin Talal’s purchase, has created a general rendering of what a VIP A380 jumbo could include: spacious bedrooms on the plane’s upper deck, separated by a reception area and a bar next to central stairway. The master bedroom could include an office, private dinning room, a gym featuring a steam bath and exercise machines.
The lower decks could feature a lounge-type quarters equipped with a conference area and dining room. A third level, normally used for cargo, could be transformed into another passenger space or cinema.
This type of custom design does not come cheap. Experts say it could rack the price up by another $50 million to $150 million.
Purchases of private airliners has mushroomed in recent years, but most orders are in the category of a Learjet or Gulfstream — small and cheap at $2 million to $5 million in comparison to the A380, said David Bain, editor of a British-based online wealth analysis service, wealth-bulletin.com.
“It seems the Saudis really like these huge planes, and they have the money to do it,” said Bain, who believes about a dozen other individuals own commercial jets. “Very few people buy commercial planes. It’s a bit over the top.”
But he and Airbus expect that number to grow. The airline company said it expects at least six other A380 VIP jets to be sold to clients in the Middle East, and Central and South Asia.
“The amount of billionaires has sky rocketed in recent years, and the really rich ones are looking to buy a commercial airline rather than a Learjet,” Bain sai