No iPod for Persian!

[VTA]

Well. At least they didn't behead her and burn down a mosque. There is that.

19-year-old Sahar Sabet says an Apple Store in Georgia refused to sell her an iPad after a store representative overheard her speaking in Farsi."Very hurtful, very embarrassing. I actually walked out in tears," Sabet told WSBTV about her experience.
When a reporter from the station returned to the same Apple Store with Sabet, the employee once again reiterated that it is Apple company policy to not sell products to anyone from Iran. The WSBTV reporter recorded video of the exchange on her phone.
Sabet is a U.S. citizen and a student at the University of Georgia but the iPad was to be a gift for a cousin living in Iran.
"When we said 'Farsi, I'm from Iran,' he said, 'I just can't sell this to you. Our countries have bad relations,'" Sabet said.

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[Cajuncowboy]

I might be the only one but I find this hilarious.

[JBond]

Sounds like Apple is trying to conform with Obama's policies, but I bet Apple is the one that takes the heat for this.

A manager showed Viteri Apple's policy. It said the exportation, sale or supply from the U.S. to Iran of any Apple goods is strictly prohibited without authorization by the U.S. government. The manager also told Viteri they have to rely on customers to be honest.

A representative for the U.S. State Department told Viteri it is illegal to travel to Iran with laptops or satellite cellphones without U.S. authorization.

[VTA]

I might be the only one but I find this hilarious.

I sort of do, but not entirely. I look at it with the view that this tripe is actually news here in America. Someone acted like an ass to another human and it's news and I supposed some should feel indignant - why else is news reported if not to effect it's hearer to some sort of emotional response or warning? Yet, like I'd inferred in your Islam thread, there are worse things happening in the inverted situation in Muslim countries that are not even acknowledged beyond the ignorant response of calling it 'tribal'.

I don't feel I or my country am obligated to 'be better' as some faceless author or speaker suggested to a generation, in the face of how things really are. Not being sold an over priced piece of plastic crap is far better than being burned alive in a church as it is; she can be thankful we're 'better'.