Pickets swarm Lowe's for pulling ads from Muslim show

MSNBC ^ | 17 Dec 2011 | JEFF KAROUB

[mandaladon]

ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Protesters descended on a Lowe's store in one of the country's largest Arab-American communities on Saturday, calling for a boycott after the home improvement chain pulled its ads from a reality television show about five Muslim families living in Michigan. About 100 people gathered outside the store in Allen Park, a Detroit suburb adjacent to the city where "All-American Muslim" is filmed. Lowe's said this week that the TLC show had become a "lightning rod" for complaints, following an email campaign by a conservative Christian group.

Protesters including Christian clergy and lawmakers called for unity and held signs that read "Boycott Bigotry" and chanted "God Bless America, shame on Lowe's" during the rally, which was organized by a coalition of Christian, Muslim and civil rights groups.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Detroit Democrat and the first Muslim woman elected to the Michigan Legislature, said it was "disgusting" for Lowe's to stop supporting a show that reflects America — the conservatives, liberals and even "the Kim Kardashians" in the Muslim community, she said.

"We're asking the company to change their mind," said protester Ray Holman, a legislative liaison for a United Auto Workers local. He said he was dismayed that the retailer "pulled sponsorship of a positive program." A local rabbi extended his support to clergy at the protest and local Arab Americans, saying he and other Jews would have been at the protest had it not fallen during the Jewish Sabbath.

"I hope that they would likewise stand up and demonstrate should something outrageous like this take place against another religion," Rabbi Jason Miller said in a statement.

[holyscroller]

The show is 100% propeganda. The people shown are about as non-typical as a Muslim can be. We're supposed to believe that a bleach-blond, scantily dressed gal who wants to open a nightclub is your run of the mill Muslim. Yeh, sure. They must have searched long and hard to find this cast of 100%-opposite-of Muslim characters.

Not only is Lowes dropping sponsorship, so are several other advertisers.

[cradle of freedom]

Hopefully this will scare other corporations from supporting Islam lite coming to our living rooms.

[Mr. K]

If the advertised on a Christian show these same morons would have been protesting against that

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Maybe the pickets can get jobs as day laborers.

[FrankR]

Maybe they can get Jimmy Dean’s PORK sausage to sponsor the show...

[LouAvul]

Of course it's michigan. Dump of a state ceded to the ragheads long ago.

I was at Lowes today in Tulsa and didn't see any of those goat humpers. Or is it raghead humping goats? I forget.

Didn't see any messycans either.

[sand lake bar]

Use your head, man! The people in Allen Park were of all faiths.They were carrying an American flag. If you can’t see the difference then you have zero credibility.

[Milton Miteybad]

Protesters descended on a Lowe's store in one of the country's largest Arab-American communities on Saturday, calling for a boycott after the home improvement chain pulled its ads from a reality television show about five Muslim families living in Michigan. About 100 people gathered outside the store in Allen Park, a Detroit suburb adjacent to the city where "All-American Muslim" is filmed.

I believe the program has just found its alternate sponsors, in the form of these protestors. Let them put their own money where their rather loud mouths are.

[libstripper]

Rabbi Miller would have made a great Sonderkommando.

[sand lake bar]

Conservatives believe in the right to peaceful protest. Conservatives believe in religious freedom. Conservatives refuse to brand an entire group on the basis of a minority’s extremism. I’m more conservative than you! And I have more class.

[sand lake bar]

The hole point is that most American Muslims are not fundamentalists. They don’t hate and they don’t want to force their faith on anyone. By the way, there’s not a single major conservative or Republican leader who disagrees with me.

[Kazan]

Can’t these protesters do something positive, like convincing the Homo Depot to sponsor the show?

[Lucas McCain]

Yep, that’s the hole point alright.

[BunnySlippers]

Oh yes, in Michigan.

[SuperLuminal]

Dang! Got them bunched up and didn’t take advantage...What a a way to fight a war!

[Antoninus]

I just dropped $29 on Lowes today. Will do so again soon.

[Recovering_Democrat]

I recommend Lowe’s shut the damn store down, putting hundreds of folks out of work, and move the store to Texas.

[sheik yerbouty]

To the rabid adherents of TROP: Kiss em@q bin sharmuta! Al jihadi al kalebna!(&@;;:/-) mekhtoub! ( it is written)!

[Steve Newton]

Smile

God bless my friend

[patriot08]

NOTICE
DON’T LET ‘EM WIN! KICK ‘EM WHILE THEY’RE DOWN!
THE LIBS, MUZZIES, THE ACLU ARE DOING EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER TO KEEP THIS ATROCITY ON THE AIR!

JIHAD PER TV “REALITY” SERIES!!

HELP STOP THIS ATROSITY!!

“ALL AMERICAN MUSLIMS”

TLC SUNDAY, 9 PM CST

This is to urge all of you to do all you can to get “All American Muslims” taken off the air.
This “reality series” is a blatant attempt to convince America that Muslims are “just like you and me” and to sabotage the work we have done to warn Americans of the danger of Islam to America.
It is supported by CAIR, Libs, and the ACLU.

Flood TLC with emails.

Protest

Boycott “All American Muslims” sponsors

Get up a petition.

They will destroy all we have done to alert America to the danger of Islam

This atrocity MUST be stopped!

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TLC EMAIL ADDRESS:

http://corporate.discovery.com/contact/viewer-relations/

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LEAVE A MESSAGE ON THE “ALL AMERICAN MUSLIM” FORUM:

http://tlc.discovery.com/videos/all-american-muslim-videos/

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From ‘Bare naked Islam’

http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/tlcs-all-american-muslim-series-sponsor-boycott-list/

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Here’s a simple email form to send: TLC SPONSOR LETTER

http://florida-family.org/take_action_form.php?message=51

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“ALL AMERICAN MUSLIMS” SPONSORS:
BOYCOTT THEM!

Following are the Sponsors and their on-line web page where you can leave them a message:

Sweet and low
http://www.sweetnlow.com/contact.php

Clinique http://www.clinique.com/customer_service/contact_us.tmpl

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Walmart
http://walmartstores.com/contactus/feedback.aspx#2

Pet Smart
http://help.petsmart.com/store-help/

Dyson
http://www.dyson.com/contact/default.asp

Amway
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Stop and Shop
http://www.stopandshop.com/customer_service/contact/consumer_affairs_subject.htm

Chase bank
https://www.chase.com/online/services/customer-service-support.htm

T Mobile
http://www.t-mobile.com/contact.aspx

HTC Radar Phones
http://www.htc.com/uk/contact/

Centrum
http://www.centrum.com/Contact.aspx

Home Depot
http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContentView?pn=Contact_Us&langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053&locStoreNum=581

Sonic
http://www.sonicdrivein.com/business/contactUs.jsp

Time Warner
https://www.timewarnercable.com/SoCal/support/email.ashx

NBC News
http://www.nbc.com/contact/general/

ProActiv
Phone: 1-800-235-6050 // Fax: 1 (515) 284-6745 // Mail: Proactiv Solution P.O. Box 11448 Des Moines, IA 50336-1448

Air borne Supplements
http://www.airbornehealth.com/contact/

Lion King

Kettle chips
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True Blue Test
investorrelations@trueblueinc.com

Kyak.com

Kahlua.com

TruMoo
http://www.trumoo.com/contact-us/

Kinect

Bob’s Furniture

Free Country Clothing
http://www.freecountry.com/fc2008/contact.html

NORTH SHORE/LIJ HOSPITAL
http://www.northshorelij.com/NSLIJ/contact-us
(WOULD YOU BELIEVE THIS IS A JEWISH HOSPITAL???)

Leap Frog

FACEBOOK Boycott TLC here: BoycottTLC
https://www.facebook.com/BoycottTLC

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Check this out and see how many Conservative websites are
infuriated over this propaganda TV:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-&p=boycott%20tlc%27s%20%27all%20american%20muslim%27&type=

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Pam Gellar:
“All American Muslims” is an attempt to manipulate Americans into ignoring the threat of jihad and to bully them into thinking that being concerned about the jihad threat would somehow victimize these nice people in this show.

The problem people have with Islam is its teachings of violence against and the subjugation of unbelievers. It is with the supremacist ideology and the fervent believers in those noxious doctrines of warfare and subjugation. The ultimate danger posed by a program presenting the “normal” side of life for American Muslims is that it isn’t’t accurate.

The danger is in the deception and obfuscation of the truth which results in the intellectual disarming of the American people.”

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