Posted on 11/28/2009 5:24:29 PM PST by TBP
The war on Christmas continues. Here is a picture of the national Best Buy ad inviting folks to celebrate Thanksgiving and . . . Eid al-Adha, which is a Muslim festival of sacrifice. It’s actually a festival that sacrifices of goats in similitude of Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son.
Now, I have nothing against Best Buy celebrating a Muslim holiday, in fact I think it’s a wonderfully inclusive thing to do. No, the problem I have is that in 2006 Best Buy discontinued the use of “Merry Christmas” in their holiday advertising.
Here is a posting from the Best Buy community forums that sums up my attitude:
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.
I think the poster of this message got it exactly right, the liberal/PC culture has taken control of Best Buy where they shun the word Christmas yet they are quite willing to extend holiday wishes to Eid al-Adha. /boggle
Bill O’reilly calls this the war on Christmas and this is exactly what it is. There is a concerted effort by the left in this country to discontinue any public acknowledgement of Christianity and they go out of their way to appease Islam. Another example of this is the movie 2012. In the movie they depict the Vatican and the Christ statute in Brazil getting blown up, but they rejected blowing up any Islam sites because they didn’t want to anger the Muslim community. I get it, it’s perfectly fine to anger the (much larger) Christian community, but Providence preserve us if we were to some how upset the Muslim community. Then again Christians don’t issue fatwas and jihads against crap like this so maybe I don’t blame the producers.
In any event chalk up another win for political correctness, but I think I’ll also be spending my Christmas money elsewhere.
Just as an update Best Buy has released the following statement that reflects a change in their policy that was established in 2006. The statement reads:
Thanks for sharing your point of view regarding our recent ad, which included a wish for a “Happy Eid al-Adha”.
Best Buy’s customers and employees around the world represent a variety of faiths and denominations. We respect that diversity and choose to greet our customers and employees in ways that reflect their traditions.
We do use the word “holiday” in some of our advertising because it is meant to be inclusive to everyone. However, just as we have in the past, we will also reference specific holidays such as Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa in our weekly ads, store signage and other advertising vehicles.
We encourage our employees to interact with customers naturally and wish them a Merry Christmas or share whatever greeting is appropriate for the holiday they are celebrating.
I appreciate this sentiment and I’m happy to hear that Best Buy has adopted this policy and that they changed from the original policy which adopted a “holiday greeting” only policy. I think that this policy is the correct one, greeting should be natural and appropriate and inclusive.
Best Buy is in serious need of FReeping. First let's all go in just long enough to tell the store manager why we won't shop there (due to this insensitivity), then let's organize FReeps to embarrass Best Buy into doing the right thing.
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I’ve never bought anything from bb, I don’t know why anyone would. Whatever they sell, there is always a better deal somewhere else. I’ve never found their prices very good at all. It’s a store for sheep!!
Somebody needs to tell PETA about this. Lots of animals, not just goats, get their throats ritually cut throughout Islam, often in very public places. It’s a natural thing for the PETA gals to protest. Or are they afraid liberals might end up on the list?
bump!
I Emailed these Best Buy dirtbags, saying I’d never set foot in their moslem-loving stores again.
moneytalk@bestbuy.com
jeff.haydock@bestbuy.com
carolyn.aberman@bestbuy.com
brian.dunn@bestbuy.com
What is WITH this country???
Communism has vowed to destroy and take over our way of life for DECADES - and we fought it for decades.
—Today, the liberal 1/2 of the USA say “Communism?..No big deal! Can’t be any worse than the last 8 years of Bush!
Islam also dictates the destruction of our way of life... Conversion or death, isn’t it???
—And now, instead of fighting this, we EMBRACE it!
Again, WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY???
Why not give them a week or two? It’s only just Thanksgiving weekend. But I wasn’t planning to buy anything from them anyway.;o)
Holy cow. I spend a FORTUNE with these guys. And they track it too. They are going to hear from me.
Best Buy is a No Buy until they do as you put it....
I wouldn't have a problem if they wanted to observe EVERY holiday from ALL religions this time of year, but they appear to be observing only the Islamic holiday Eid-al-Adha. That's just plain wrong.
Lets see, Home Depot has been off my list for awhile and now I’ll add Best Buy. And I was thinking of going there tomorrow to buy a new wireless router. O well, I guess I’ll have to go to Staples, maybe they will wish me a Merry Christmas.
Good!
I'm surprised that Best Buy went out of its way to target Eid-al-Adha, hardly a feast that seems compatible with our Western-style consumerism. (In fact, I was a little suspicious at first that this was all just a photoshopped joke, but since I haven't read any punk'd stories, I guess it's for real.)
As for the slaughtering of animals, I can only point out that in just the last several weeks we slaughtered tens of millions of turkeys. No, PETA wasn't happy about it either.
Merry Christmas everyone!
God Bless all of you and all of your families.
F*ck Allah!
And to hell with Islam.
Best Buy, you will never get a single sale from me.
Hopefully the muzzie scum will keep you in business, because I definitely will not.
Do the Muslims know what Abraham’s (almost) sacrifice of Isaac actually stands for? If they did: they’d be Christians (or at least not hate the Jews).
Saw it in my local paper. Its not photoshop.
>>Lets see, Home Depot has been off my list for awhile and now I’ll add Best Buy. And I was thinking of going there tomorrow to buy a new wireless router. O well, I guess I’ll have to go to Staples, maybe they will wish me a Merry Christmas.
I don’t get worked up over this anymore. Most chain stores in this country aren’t brave enough to wish anyone a Merry Christmas and they’re all in favor of liberal diversity so they promote Muslim, Jewish, and fake African holidays.
Big deal.
Celebrate a Christian Christmas in December. Decorate your house. Go to church. Visit family. Volunteer to help others. Don’t buy anything but food in December!
Then, have a secular gift-giving holiday in January when there’s no pressure to call it by any name.
Christmas should be celebrated. Don’t let retail stores ruin it!
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I NEVER go to Best Buy unless it’s a dire emergency and I have no other option.
And yes that’s never happened.
This is in response to your ad for Black Friday celebration to include Eid Al-Adha, a radical muslim commemoration of the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son Ismael as an act of obedience to allah. It upholds the Islamic concept of killing people, even family members, to please allah.
It’s not even a muslim holiday, but a ritual to be celebrated by radical islamists to celebrate the god on whose behalf they took down the World Trade Centers, killing over 6,000 people. Are you nuts
Conservative -
http://www.forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Weekly-Sales/bd-p/Sales
This is in response to your ad for Black Friday celebration to include Eid Al-Adha, a radical muslim commemoration of the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son Ismael as an act of obedience to allah. It upholds the Islamic concept of killing people, even family members, to please allah.
It’s not even a muslim holiday, but a ritual to be celebrated by radical islamists to celebrate the god on whose behalf they took down the World Trade Centers, killing over 6,000 people. Are you nuts
Conservative -
http://www.forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Weekly-Sales/bd-p/Sales
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