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
Need a list of Danish products.
Gujrat is 90% HIndu and 10% muzlim, methinks.
The muzlims burnt a train full of Hindu pilgrims in Feb'02, some 60 odd died. Then started some 2 months of daily rioting in which some 2000 muzlims perished, entire neighbourhoods wasted.... It wasn't pretty, no.
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That is my view every morning and every night. Seems folks come here to see America. We are between Zion, Bryce and the North Rim Grand Canyon.
*Canukistan*?!?! ROTFLOL!!
Thanks, Every once in a while we talk about his country. He must be Hindu. He has great pride in the land and I now recall comments he made regarding muslims were not supportive.
GiftShopCafe Sells Royal Dansk Danish Butter Cookies
DANISH BAKERY Sells all edibles Danish...Kringles, Dutch Chocolate Cake, Coffee Cake, Scandanavian Breads
Dutch Sweets best variety of everything sweet and Danish also Douwe Egberts Coffee, traditional Danish Coffee
Danish Breakfast items including difficult to find Hagelslag (chocolate sprinkles)
That has been my attitude since 9/11. I quit patronizing all the Stop & Rob stations run by middle eastern clerks.
Arabs do not produce product, they sell the rights to retrieve and export a raw material. They depend on foreign companies to do the actual heavy lifting.
Be sure to let them know that there are many, many people all over the world who support them, and that they shouldn't give in.
Take the ferry over to Malmo,Sweden while your there........I think they may have the bridge finished by now.........
I'm not relying on press as to the situation in Australia and Canada. The rapes and harms that were recently reported in Australia have been going on for a while but were not receiving press coverage, from what some Australians in and around Sydney wrote about recent media from there.
No it isn't. What it is about is exposing your yellow streak for all the world to see and further encouraging these f*&^%ng wack jobs to riot. I wouldn't piss on the likes of you if you were on fire.
Well, alright, but that means I will be also peacefully boycotting and otherwise avoiding any and all businesses and organizations that are muslim related and owned.
Just make sure they are from denmark. What else do they export???
Yeah but where do we buy gas get milk at 11:00pm at night?
Muslims, pretty soon..........
See my comments No. 48" for starters.
Then there are the beer/s, the ham/s, the softwares and more (there's quite a good standard of computing that originates in Denmark).
Ha, I was just trying to figure out if there were any MUSLIM PRODUCTS.
Nope, none. Boycotting them is going to be easy.
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