The Morphing War

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There was recently a video ad by the Democratic party depicting president Bush morphing into Richard Nixon. I found it fascinating for its visual effect. As I watched the ad I was reminded of the phallic symbolisms of Muslim Culture in the forms of their 'minarettes' (prayer towers).

In the old days 'Meuzzens' (sp?) would actually go up into those towers at prayer time and shout out to the faithful that this was prayer time. In fact I learned about this practice from Omar Khayamm's book (translated by Edward Fitzgerald), The Rubiat of Omar Khayamm. Here is the verse:

Alike to those who for Today prepare
And those who after some tomorrow stare
A meuzzen from the tower of darkness cries,
'Fools, your reward is neither here nor there.'

So I wondered Whether the obvious Phallic symbolism of Minarettes could be exploited, and it seemed to me that that symbolism could best be exploited by morphing video which showed the minarettes slowly morphing into circumcised phalluses.