"The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets," Sharpton quipped in a statement released later in the afternoon.

Sharpton, a critic of the lack of diversity in Hollywood, also announced he was holding an "emergency meeting" next week to address the issue.

"I have called an emergency meeting early next week in Hollywood with the task force to discuss possible action around the Academy Awards," he said.

Muslim clerics were quick to clamp down on the fun, reminding people that Islam forbids imitations of the forms of people or animals. Police quickly destroyed a snow camel a proud resident created outside his home.

Some people are not happy. One blogger wrote:

“We have snow for fleeting days, maybe even hours, and there is always someone who wants to rob us of the joy and the fun,” he posted. “It seems that the only thing left for us is to sit down and drink coffee,” he said.

British MP (and Muslim) Khalid Mahmood said "That's ludicrous. That's absolute, utter nonsense and when people go too far that actually brings the whole discussion into disrepute."

Jewish leaders responded by noting that Jews and Muslims are forbidden from eating pigs, not from being aware of their existence or using the word.

imagine the scrubs for that!