Posted on 02/06/2006 9:20:13 AM PST by DTA
Danish products removed from Toronto shops CTV.ca News Staff
Muslim-owned stores in Toronto are removing Danish products from shelves in response to outrage over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that appeared in the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten.
Outrage erupted into protests in many Muslim countries over the cartoons which depict the prophet as a terrorist or another with him wearing a turban shaped as bomb.
Signs have appeared in a Toronto grocery store that say, "We no longer carry any products from Denmark." The store's manager told The Toronto Star removing Danish products is about showing solidarity with other Muslims, even if it hurts business.
Customers said they support the grocery store's decision to boycott Danish products.
"They (Muslims) don't find any other way to show their anger," a shopper told CTV's Desmond Brown Saturday. "So this is a natural way."
The boycott of cookies, cheese and fried onions from Denmark may not result in a large economic blow for the Scandinavian country. However it is being seen as a symbolic expression by Canadian Muslims.
"We will do so using peaceful, very Canadian means like economic boycotts, like writing letters to the editors," Naheem Siddiqi of the Canadian Muslim Civil Liberties Association said Saturday.
While parts of the world have experienced violent protests in response to the cartoons, reaction in Toronto has been limited to product boycotts and stern condemnations.
The Islamic Supreme Council of Canada has called on Denmark to apologize to all Muslims while the Canadian Arab Federation called the cartoons hateful propaganda.
"We definitely do not believe in the violence we have seen in some parts of the world," Siddiqi said.
Violence erupted in Syria as demonstrators torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus on Saturday.
Chanting "God is Great," protesters stormed the embassy, set the Danish flag on fire, and replaced it with another flag that read: "No God but Allah, Muhammad is his prophet."
Jyllands-Posten apologized on Friday for publishing the cartoons, however the editorial has done little to quell outrage and protests.
The newspaper said if they had known Danish lives would be put at risk, the drawings would never have been published.
With files from CTV's Desmond Brown and The Canadian Press
I am buying Danish products and boycotting Canada.
There, I feel so much better as an American and a person of good conscience.
What?! No canned Danish ham?
I used to cross the border here in Buffalo to "import" some of the fine Carlsberg brew when the exchange rate was better -- in solidarity with Denmark, perhaps I'll return to that practice...
I'll bet that is the only time he has refered to himself as Canadian.
I will boycott Muslim stores in Dearborn!
I'm sorry to hear this, but I still say that if the American people choose to support Denmark with their buying power, the mooslims won't affect much.
There go the corner shops.
This was tried in the Indian state of Gujrat after massive Hindu-muzlim rioting in 2002 with disasterous consequences for muzlims there. The informal boycott ended in a few months though, all on its own.
We (the world, the Western world) need more "Dirty Harry's"
Tell the Danes to hold tight and that we support them. Stay safe, and let us know how it was when you return.
That's been pretty obvious, hasn't it? They know better than to try that kind of stuff here, yet. It's so encouraging to hear from other FReepers that in some areas of the country, they have a self defense plan in effect.
If it was not for western companies they would have never gotten the oil out of the ground!
Saudis have over $700B invested in American economy. Banks, manufacturing, real estate, you name it. It would be good to know what "Merican" businesses are 100% Saudi owned and boycott them nation-wide.
ping
I just borrowed your image of Utah to show friends how I remember my trip there. :-)
And even then, they could not do this without help from the West.
And if that doesn't work, THEN we will start the suicide bombings and beheadings!
Do you know what the religion is of Gujrat(sp?). Curious because my local deli owners are Gujratti.
Thanks.
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