Notice how Eid is an anagram for both 'die' and IED?
Found this on FailBlog. If we're talking about Islam, this pic's actually not such a fail...
Posted on 11/22/2009 5:08:15 PM PST by UB355
WTH?? This PC crap is KILLING THIS COUNTRY. ENOUGH ALREADY!!
How bout Happy SATAN DAY. BUNCH A FRICKEN MORONS.
They clearly do not want this Christian’s money. Do they read history books and know what Islam means to civilizations?
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Thanks to MamaDearest for the ping to this article:
“Best Buy Wishes Muslims Happy Eid al-Adha”
Nov 23, 2009
- Todd Wasserman
SNIPPET: “Best Buy stands by its decision to wish U.S. Muslims a Happy Eid Al-Adha, a rep for the company said, and though some Best Buy customers took offense, a Muslim advocacy group praised the move.
The retailer got some flak this week for including, along with its circular advertising Thanksgiving Day sales, a note saying “Happy Eid Al-Adha,” which refers to a holiday of sacrifice for followers of Islam on Nov. 27 this year.”
SNIPPET: “Ahmed Rehab, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said he could not recall when any American retailer mentioned the holiday in its ads. “It makes perfect business sense to acknowledge and celebrate a holiday that one out of four people celebrate,” Rehab said.”
Hmmm.... most interesting to me is the Angels & Demons promo right beside it.
It is a war, after all.
It makes perfect business sense NOT to acknowledge and celebrate a holiday that three out of four people don’t celebrate, especially in light of the American people’s view towards Islam and Muslims in general...
eid is originally an arabic word so it doesn’t matter how its spelled in english and can be transliterated tons of ways... i can spell it “eed”, “eyd”
Yeah, the most correct way is a’id. But eid is most common.
“Wow! I’m surrounded! There is a Best Buy across one corner of my neighborhood, and a MOSQUE around the other! YIKES!
I think this Eid is the goat Throat Slitting Holiday. Last year it was 250 goats that gave their lives for this bit of holiday cheer.
PETA was not in attendance and could not be reached for comment.”
I’m really sorry to hear that a neighboring mosque causes you that much discomfort and I really hope the Muslims in your area work to help alleviate that discomfort.
Also I think you have a few misconceptions about the Eid holiday. While it is true every family is required to slaughter or fund for the slaughtering of an animal, the meat HAS to be distributed out to the poor and needy. And what the other individual posted from Wikipedia is also true, the sacrifice is in commemoration of the willingness of Prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son, Ishmael, something that the other Abrahamic religions recognize. So we do not sacrifice these animals just for sport and as a holiday cheer but we do it to remember those less fortunate.
“And what the other individual posted from Wikipedia is also true, the sacrifice is in commemoration of the willingness of Prophet Abraham to sacrifice his son, Ishmael,”
The “Other Abrahamic Religions” that you mention do not recognize the “willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son, Ishmael” The Other Abrahamic religions , which I will NAME as Judaism and Christianity, recognize Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son, ISAAC.
The Mosque in our neighborhood was built without permission of the neighbors, bought by a straw corporation with false plans, and then proceeded to plaster the neighborhood busses and bus shelters with posters saying that JESUS and MOSES were Moslems , which was insulting to a majority of the area residents. So yes, this PARTICULAR Mosque has caused me and many others a great deal of discomfort.
I will quote your own sura to you: (a rough paraphrase to be sure)
You have your religion,
I have mine.
You will not change me.
I will not change you.
AND LEAVE IT AT THAT.
Thank you for the clarification.
Thank you for the clarification.
My pleasure.
The whole point of Christmas is that God gave the PERFECT gift to mankind: his Son. This gift was the lamb of God to pay for all the sins of mankind. The reason that it has become a big holiday for stores is because, in honor of the gift GOD GAVE US, we give gifts to one another. Retailers take advantage of this charitable giving to get back in the black and make their profits. No one, not God, nor Christians, has a problem with commerce. But people aren’t buying gifts for the eid al-adha season, they’re buying it for the Christmas season, in honor of the Messiah.
Also, faith in and of itself is worthless. It is the OBJECT of that faith which is important. Eid al-adha supposedly commemorates Abraham’s near sacrifice of Ishmael, but the original jewish scriptures say that it was Isaac, not Ishmael, that was to be sacrificed. ~700 years after Jesus came, some guy named Muhammed altered the truth and claimed it was Ishmael, just like he also claimed that Jesus (who they called Isa) didn’t really die on the cross. Islam changes the basic facts about the events of jewish and christian history. The fact of the matter is that Muhammed is a liar, and the religion he created is a lie.
If you want to embrace all faiths, it is only because you think none of them are accurate, i.e. you are godless and unsaved. Freedom is great, and it is great to live in a country that has freedom to worship whomever you please. But not all faiths lead to salvation. By its very nature, the muslim faith is a works-based salvation with its 5 pillars. If you do certain things and keep certain laws, supposedly allah will save you. But no one can perfectly keep all the laws, which is why Christmas is such a joyous time, because God gave Jesus to us, the perfect Christmas gift, so that sinners could be saved by faith in him.
Islam twists history to suit its own purposes. Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac, his only son, was foreshadowing God’s coming sacrifice of His only Son Jesus. The gospel is good news because it means we are not required to keep a set of strict laws and ordinances in order to inherit eternal life. Forgiveness of sins comes by faith in 1 man whom God gave as a gift to mankind: Jesus. Just because Muhammed came along ~700 years later and denied and twisted the basic facts of history doesn’t mean that Islam has any basis in reality.
To those who think all religions are a lie, what do you plan to do when you, like 100% of people in the world, die? Everyone dies. Christmas is symbolic of God’s pardoning of our sin, through the crucifixion and death of his innocent son Jesus on the cross. He that was without sin died for us who are sinners. It is right for anyone who fears and loves God to be angry at Islam and Muhammed for denying the gospel and drawing people away from saving faith in Christ. But our war is not against flesh and blood, it is against spiritual forces. It is not a war fought with guns and knives, but with prayer and fasting.
If Best buy and gap and other godless institutions of the world want to draw people from all faiths into their stores by pandering to every religion, that’s their choice and they will benefit or suffer from that choice financially as some muslims go there or other Christians boycott them. We Christians do not expect the world to behave like the church. The church is separated from the world, sanctified, and born again.
To those who are furious, I would remind you of Jesus saying “let he who is without sin, cast the first stone”. We are all sinners. The anger about this eid al-adha thing is that Christmas is unique in that God gave us a Gift and so we give gifts to others. What good has islam ever brought to the world? They have done nothing more than try to put another yoke, another law, on the necks of those who are unable to keep the law. No one can perfectly keep the law except for Jesus, which is why his sacrifice on the cross was so important.
If you want to live forever, repent and be baptized in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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