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Iran said Monday it might boycott the 2012 London Olympics because of the event's "racist" logo which resembles the word Zion, the official Irna news agency reported.

The secretary general of the National Olympic Committee said Iran had made the complaint in a letter to the International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge and was waiting for a response.

The London logo shows the numbers 2012 in four jagged multi-colored figures and was launched in 2007. Zion is a term that refers to the city of Jerusalem and Iran does not recognize Israel.

"Certainly other countries, including Islamic nations, will react to this racist logo and this would jeopardize the goals of the Olympic games in the world," Bahram Afsharzadeh told Irna.

He warned the International Olympic Committee that "negligence of the issue from your side might affect the presence of some countries, especially Iran," Irna reported.

 

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neh.. it's just ugly..



 

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"He warned the International Olympic Committee that "negligence of the issue from your side might affect the presence of some countries, especially Iran," Irna reported."

GOOD!



 

I don't think anyone cares what Iran does.



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lol... Its ugly as hell and should be changed on that merit alone.

I guess it kinda looks zion or 2012, but either way ... who cares?

Someone has way too much time on there hands to pull that out of that crappy symbol.

God I hope other Muslim nations just ignore him.



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I always thought it looked a bit like Lisa Simpson giving head.



It is without a doubt the most unsightly creation ever beheld by human eyes, but the Iranians make one hell of an argument to keep it.



Rath said:

I always thought it looked a bit like Lisa Simpson giving head.


I totally see that wtf



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Rath said:

I always thought it looked a bit like Lisa Simpson giving head.


Hawt.



Rath said:

I always thought it looked a bit like Lisa Simpson giving head.


That is so wrong, but now you've mentioned it I can totally see what you mean.

As for the OP, I read about this earlier today and I refuse to believe someone can be so oversensitive as to misinterpret a logo so much. I think he's just being antagonising. A person would either have to be extremely deluded or purposefully looking for something to be angry about to read 'Zion' in that, I think it's the latter.