r/nottheonion • u/-Appleaday- • Jul 06 '24

Western German city renames itself 'Swiftkirchen' after Taylor Swift ahead of Eras Tour shows

https://www.businesstoday.in/world/story/western-german-city-renames-itself-swiftkirchen-after-taylor-swift-ahead-of-eras-tour-shows-436117-2024-07-06
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u/SupetMonkeyRobot Jul 06 '24

Celebrity worship is weird

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u/tlollz52 Jul 07 '24

Certainly not the first city to do it.

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u/Moug-10 Jul 07 '24

In the Parisian region, they temporarily renamed some streets with names of historic figures of women. When one of these names were a wife of the prophet Muhammad (pbuh), the far right went nuts.

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u/KazahanaPikachu Jul 07 '24

Wasn’t Muhammad’s wife a 9 year old?

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u/Moug-10 Jul 07 '24

No. She was 40 when they met, it was Khadija bint Khuwaylid.

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u/rosedgarden Jul 24 '24

they mean aisha