Posted on 08/03/2004 5:40:03 AM PDT by SJackson
JERUSALEM : Mecca Cola, the drink which prides itself on giving a share of its profits to "the children of Palestine", has gone on sale in parts of Israel for the first time, the Haaretz daily reported.
Bottles featuring illustrations of Jerusalem's landmark Dome of the Rock now line the shelves in Arab Israeli towns although they are not being stocked in Jewish areas of the country.
Mecca Cola's French founder Taufik Mathlouthi said that he wanted to "struggle against Zionism inside its home," but insisted he had no problem with Jews.
"We don't have a problem with the Jews living in the Zionist entity, only with the entity itself and what it symbolizes," he said.
The bottle labels state that 10 percent of the profits will go to "the children of Palestine," while another 10 percent will be funnelled to local charities in each country where it is sold.
The company's distributor in Israel Makdad Idris said he would donate all 20 percent of the profits to the Palestinians.
Mecca Cola was founded in 2002 to give Muslim consumers an alternative to traditional American products such as Coca Cola and Pepsi. - AFP
And a ping for those on Alouette's list, she's away from her computor.
Has Coca-Cola seen the color and writing on that label?
Sure, but do you think Coca-Cola will take legal action against a company which shares its profits with "the children of Palestine"?? It´s for the children!!
Do they come with warning labels...Open at Your Own Risk?
I wonder what happens when you mix it with Pop-Rocks. . .
There's something wrong with it being for the children?
is mecca cola made kosher?
Hey, Taufik, your nose is growing.
History of Palestinian childrens "charity" indicates this will become rewards for suicide bombers' families.
I think you will probably find that the suicide bombers, and their families, are a very small minority of the population.
Apparently you may be mistaken.
Yes, but it has been repeatedly proven that Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Hamas, and American Muslim Charities target their funding to ensure homicide bombers' families are paid cash. When the economy of the Palestinians has been destroyed by their intransigence, incompetence, kleptocracy, and socialism, charitable payments to bombers' families become a significant inducement to terror.
Boycott Terror Cola!
I don't think it is going to be distributed in our country. It will be interesting to see if the Israelis boycott it...I would think that if anyone does, it would be them. As to where the profits really go...I wouldn't know.
There are precedents. PA eagle mimic the eagle of the Third Reich. Imitation is the truest form of flattery.
I may be, or the manufacturers of Mecca Cola may be.
There's a lot going on with our enemies that isn't strictly Islamic. It isn't Islam as such that is our enemy, even though I would say that Islam as such is wrong.
I do not believe that Islam is our enemy either...it's the fanatics that use it to their advantage that are our enemies. It's like blaming a gun for a murder, it's not the gun, but the person using it.
I don't think any religions are wrong...or right, they are just religions.
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