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BEST BUY ignores "Christmas" but celebrates Muslim holiday in sales ads

Melensdad

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Anyone notice the Best Buy ads in their local paper for the BLACK FRIDAY sale?
Best Buy Ditches ‘Christmas’ But Celebrates Muslim Holiday in Fliers
Big Government Blog Archive Best Buy Ditches ‘Christmas’ But Celebrates Muslim Holiday in Fliers

by Warner Todd Huston


Christmas. Who needs it? Not Best Buy, that’s for sure. After all, Best Buy is loathe to use that hateful word in its advertising. It’s so “religious” and tinged with racism, America, and tradition. It makes Best Buy shudder to think of using that foul word, Christmas. But, advertising for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha? Heck, why not? What could be more welcoming and tolerant?

And so, Best Buy has issued a Thanksgiving sales flyer wishing all good multi-cultural, Muslim loving Americans a happy Eid al-Adha this year.

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Don’t you feel your heart warming already? Isn’t your PC bone tingling with happiness? And aren’t you secretly gleeful that those rotten, evil, reactionary, hatemongering Christians are getting theirs… even if Christians do make up about 75 percent of the United States?

Well, let’s give Best Buy a hand for its politically correct sales flier excising that horrid Christmas nonsense and being enlightened enough to help us all convert to the “Religion of Peace.”

Thanks be it to Allah and Best Buy for helping us forget little things like the Khobar Tower bombing, the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Towers, the attack on the U.S.S. Cole, 9/11, or that silly little incident with Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood. It was but a trifle, after all.

In this happy Eid al-Adha season we can thank Best Buy for its sacrifice, too. For its sacrifice of America to its enemies, for the sacrifice of our traditions, religious principles, and culture to an alien, hostile ideology. We can thank Best Buy for helping organizations like CAIR to spread its message of cultural jihad.

Yes, thanks Best Buy for showing us how to be better “Americans.”

Now go ye forward and shop, America. Happy Eid al-Adha to everyone. And don’t let PETA stop you from buying that goat. And don’t mind us, folks. We are just committing cultural suicide is all.​
 
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The same advertisement was noted in an On-Line tech/gadget website:
A storm is brewing at Best Buy
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/11/23/a-storm-is-brewing-at-best-buy/
by John Biggs on November 23, 2009


Here it comes: Best Buy ran a national Black Friday ad inviting the world to celebrate Thanksgiving and Eid Al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice. Fair enough, right? Happy Eid! Well, take a gander at the ad up there and brace yourself.

Look closely. You’ll probably miss the good will and wishes, they’re so innocuous.

So you’d think that a national retailer would be praised for trying to reach out to its Muslim visitors and you’d also think that since Black Friday comes around Thanksgiving, an ostensibly “conservative” holiday,” they’d be excused for not putting baby Jesus in the carriage Toad drives in Mario Kart Wii on the first page of its Black Friday ad.

Nope.

The s-storm brewing at Best Buy is going to overtake the news cycle in a few days. Here’s an example of the rhetoric:

Among my major purchases from BB over the years were a plasma big screen, a fridge and a laptop. No more. In 2006 you discontinued the use of ‘ Merry Christmas’ in your “holiday” messages.

Yet one of your ad inserts wishes your customers a happy “Eid Al Aldha” ( a Muslim goat throat slitting festivity) . Clearly the liberal/ PC culture in your corporate offices is biased against Christians and traditional American values. So, in 2009 I discontinue Best Buy. Good riddance.

Hello A m a z o n

- A proud patriotic Christian American.
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While I’d be happier if they celebrated a real holiday like Festivus, can’t we give Best Buy a break? This is literally the first time I’ve ever seen any major retailer celebrate Eid, it’s a nice holiday for millions of Americans, and it’s nice for BB to note that yes, it is coming up soon. And let me assure you that next week’s flyer will probably include dancing angels, Moses riding a jet-ski, and What Would Jesus Buy HDTV buying tips.

Thoughts?​
 
mak2

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While on the topic. Do any of you guys know why every goat dish I have has so many bones in it? I never get a big chunck of goat.
 
Melensdad

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I dunno. I generally eat goat burgers when I eat goat so its simply the ground up meat.
 
mak2

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I have friends at work that bring goat dishes in all the time, and last week in Jamaica I had it a couple of times. It is always good but lots of bones. Dead goats dont come up very often so I thought I would ask.
 
thcri

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Just another reason for me to put on my list of "Why I don't buy from Best Buy"

Me not buying from them won't make a difference as I don't buy from them right now.
 
Melensdad

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The really cool thing about the free market is that Best Buy can choose to advertise to whoever they want/think is most beneficial. And you can choose to do business with who ever you want. Me I usually spend my dollars with companies that offer the best package of service and price, and don't give to political organizations that I disagree with. When companies mix politics with profit then I tend to vote with my dollars by supporting those companies that do not offend my senses.
 
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B_Skurka said:
The really cool thing about the free market is that Best Buy can choose to advertise to whoever they want/think is most beneficial. And you can choose to do business with who ever you want. Me I usually spend my dollars with companies that offer the best package of service and price, and don't give to political organizations that I disagree with. When companies mix politics with profit then I tend to vote with my dollars by supporting those companies that do not offend my senses.
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