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
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And rent books-on-tape?
I'm not sure anyone will want them. There will be a rule, though, that nobody wearing all black can come in (unless you are a ninja) and you can sit and read all you want, just that guys are not allowed to read poetry.
You know...
Take away the pork fat, and I just might get one of them.
Well, not from Caribou of course...
But they still use evil derivatives at Starbucks.
A letter by 2banana:
"Muslim Spain was a perfect example of a flourishing society in which Jews, Christians and Muslims lived in mutual respect and cooperation."
Muslim Spain was Christian Spain for nearly 700 years before being conquered by Islamic Armies in the 8th Century. That is the way the Islamic Religion has been historically spread, though military invasion and occupation. Treatment of conquered people has the same goal, the minimizing of other religions and conversion of the indigenous people. Among other rules for non Muslims in Muslim Spain; Christians and Jews could not bear arms -- Muslims could; Christians and Jews could not ride horses -- Muslims could; Christians and Jews had to get permission to build or fix places or worship -- Muslims did not; Christians and Jews had to pay certain taxes which Muslims did not; Christians could not proselytize -- Muslims could; Christians and Jews had to bow to their Muslim masters; Christians and Jews had to live under the laws set forth in the Koran, not under either their own religious or secular law; and Christian's and Jew's word in a court of law was not equal to a Muslim's Word. And the list goes on.
Today, 1300 years later, a Christian or Jew living in an Islamic country will still have to live nearly under these very same laws. I can see why the head of the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations would want us all to do "our part" to create such a world.
Hey, why don't we boycott companies that do business with Bahrain! How do you fill your gas tank again?
Note to self: never go to Caribou.
We've got a caribou farm near here....
Caribou burgers...
Caribou steaks....
Caribou jerky....
and BTW< my first and only Starbucks never made it out of the parking lot. I think they forgot to pick the beans OUT of the monkey crap before they brewed it.
Worst excuse for plain, regular coffee I've ever tasted. A $6 can of Folgers lasts me 2 months just fine.
Actually, Listening to about 3 calls on C-Span in the morning does more to get my blood flowing than anything I've found.
:^)
There's a place right off 1-44 near Springfield, MO, just down the road from Pro Bass Shops: forget the proprietary name, but neon sign says: 'Liquor, Guns, Fireworks, Gas, Diesel--EAT'.
Showers. Chapel for the truckers. Industrial grade pyrotechnics, balls like oranges you light & drop down tubes. Quarts of fire-water. Spit-tubes. Cool Indian relics from China. Cassette tapes of big-hair bands. Country fried steaks w/ bowls of sausage gravy & golden steak fries. `Tire knockers'. Machines in the bathroom sell all sorts of things and in the gift shop, those reclining chrome beauties you see on mud-flaps, boots, stretch jeans . . . definitely a `mullah-free zone'.
Coffee: straight and strong; Caribou & Starbucks are a little tame after you've been to EAT.
Sounds great. I want that atmosphere, but in a smaller, cleaner, setting. IE I don't actually want truckers to come.
"Also, a Shari'ah-compliant company is prohibited from dealing in the areas of alcohol, gambling, pornography, pork and pork-related products."I can safely assume, then, that the candy stores that continue to sell lottery tix and porn are not Shari'ah compliant. Good to know.
Caribou are beautiful (and tasty) animals, which roam throughout northern Canada and Alaska.
Caribou also seem to be connected to beer. "The ancestral Canucks then began to brew their own beers in wooden cauldrons made from hollowed-out maple tree stumps, and then stored the finished product in vessels sewn from dried caribou skins." Source: http://www.thetoque.com/030422/beergod.htm
Of course the Caribou is also the official drink of the Quebec Winter Carnival. It is a heated concoction of port, brandy, sherry, vodka, and maple syrup (Everclear can be substituted for the Vodka; but no substitutions for the maple syrup) that revelers drink from hollow plastic canes (so that nobody knows what they're drinking ;-) ) to keep warm. The drink originally also contained Caribou blood, but people seem to be happy enough substituting it for more alcohol.
Rather bizarre, don't you think, given that Santos (a popular Brazilian grade) is $0.94 dockside right now, and Columbian 'C' is $1.0210 basis Miami/New Orleans certified warehouses. Kenyan robustas are about $0.89 and unwashed Ethiopians (yes, that IS a grade of coffee) about $0.82.
$1.26 is just a BS feel-good number that some Birkenstock-wearing lefty do-gooder cranked up, has no relation to the real world, and does and should do nothing but ratchet up contempt for this company.
When you drink Starbucks coffee, you support -- however indirectly -- the notion of command pricing. You remember, that's how the Sovs used to do things, right?
Thank you for serving. I tend to stay away from Starbucks because I cannot get past the association it has in my head with Seattle liberals. I can't help but think if I bouoght something at Starbucks, either through the executives or through the employees, a lot of that $4 will end up in a lefty cause's checking account somewhere.
My sister bought me one of their "mix" packages that were vacuum packed in one pot surving sizes,pretty handy really but I am almost positive I threw it out when I heard their stance on gun control.
A new one is opening right up the road here....
I wonder if any of the flavor shots at most coffeehouses have alcohol. Probably not.
That's YOUR Starbucks - all three of the ones within three blocks of my office are packed with lawyers.
I'll take the hippies.
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