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Caribou won't sell pork, beer or lottery tickets (Dhimmi Watch)
Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | 7/25/05 | NA

Posted on 07/25/2005 1:04:07 PM PDT by gridlock

Porn, pork and Pabst -- you're safe from them at Caribou Coffee. In an SEC filing last week for its initial stock offering, the Brooklyn Center-based coffeehouse chain noted that it operates its business according to the Islamic principles known as Shari'ah.

"A Shari'ah-compliant company is prohibited from engaging in derivative hedging transactions such as interest rate swaps or futures, forward options or other instruments designed to hedge against changes in interest rates or the price of commodities we purchase," Caribou said in its filing. "Also, a Shari'ah-compliant company is prohibited from dealing in the areas of alcohol, gambling, pornography, pork and pork-related products."

Atlanta-based Arcapita Inc. owns 84 percent of Caribou. Arcapita is the U.S. private-equity arm of Arcapita Bank B.S.C., a Bahrainian investment group

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: caribou; cary; coffee; dhimmi; dhimmitude; pathetic; religionofpeace; religionoftolerance; sharia; trop
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To: Alouette

Thanks, just sent that article off to a few people.


141 posted on 07/25/2005 5:26:21 PM PDT by SJackson (On the second try, I got that jug off [the bear's head], but then I had a bear tied to a tree)
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To: Tax-chick
Would one generally expect to find pork, beer, or lottery tickets at a coffeehouse?

Only when it's referred to as a 'Truck Stop'.

142 posted on 07/25/2005 5:46:05 PM PDT by uglybiker (Did ya hear the one about the cannibal who passed his friend in the forest?)
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To: Rodney King
We'll sell cigarettes and chewing tobacco as well.

If you put up a sign saying shirt and shoes optional but Concealed Carry required I'm in!

143 posted on 07/25/2005 8:24:03 PM PDT by mississippi red-neck (You will never win the war on terrorism by fighting it in Iraq and funding it in the West Bank.)
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To: weegee
How ironic that "Churches" is owned by muslims.

Is this True?

144 posted on 07/25/2005 8:42:10 PM PDT by mississippi red-neck (You will never win the war on terrorism by fighting it in Iraq and funding it in the West Bank.)
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To: nina0113
It's full of smelly hippies. That's YOUR Starbucks - all three of the ones within three blocks of my office are packed with lawyers.

Trying to come to grips with which is worse.

145 posted on 07/25/2005 9:21:49 PM PDT by rock58seg (RINO"s make the Republicans MINO"s (Majority In Name Only)!)
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To: Drew68
Cool! I have a Starbucks Kuwait mug that dh brought me a couple of years ago. Mmmmmmmmm, coffee....


146 posted on 07/25/2005 9:25:55 PM PDT by shezza (God Bless Our Troops)
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To: SJackson

Maybe they'll have weekly beheadings..


147 posted on 07/25/2005 9:27:28 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: L,TOWM
never knew those guys with crew cuts under their cowboy hats, wearing flannel shirts and blue jeans, that smell like cow$#!+ at my local Starbucks in Allen, TX were hippies! Thank you for enlightening me, sir!

Sounds like what we used to call "drugstore cowboys". Complete outfit consists of, six inch hat brim, four inch belt buckle, and two inch....uh, maybe we ought to not go there.

148 posted on 07/25/2005 9:39:14 PM PDT by rock58seg (RINO"s make the Republicans MINO"s (Majority In Name Only)!)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

Ja, mon.


149 posted on 07/25/2005 10:03:43 PM PDT by porkchops 4 mahound (JA!)
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To: GoBucks2002

"Wow. A company that makes Starbucks look good."


I heard the owner of Starbucks is a Zionist of sorts. Gives money to Israel.

(I have to give Starbucks credit for making good coffee available on every street corner. In my day, I had to drive several miles to a "gourmet" store to buy decent coffee beans. I was ahead of my time -- I would grind them myself.)


150 posted on 07/25/2005 10:25:37 PM PDT by MoochPooch (A righteous person worries about his or her behavior, an extremist about everyone else's.)
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To: nina0113

In due time.


151 posted on 07/25/2005 11:23:34 PM PDT by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: Alouette
If they were a kosher retailer and didn't mix milk with meat would that be "special" too?

So, what's your point?

152 posted on 07/26/2005 4:15:41 AM PDT by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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