A Religious Storm is Brewing Over Best Buy's Black Friday Ads

Washington Post ^ | 11.23.09 | John Biggs

[libh8er]

Here it comes: Best Buy ran a national Black Friday ad inviting the world to celebrate Thanksgiving and Eid Al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice. Fair enough, right? Happy Eid!

[libh8er]

Yesterday's thread has been picked up by a number of blogs and news outlets. Google 'Best Buy eid' for more.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2392326/posts

[libh8er]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2392326/posts

[Mengerian]

I’m done with Best Buy. They can “get in the dinghy.”

[Cacique]

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[UB355]

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The reply from Best Buy

Thanks for sharing your point of view regarding our recent ad, which included a wish for a “Happy Eid al-Adha”.

Best Buy’s customers and employees around the world represent a variety of faiths and denominations. We respect that diversity and choose to greet our customers and employees in ways that reflect their traditions.

We do use the word “holiday” in some of our advertising because it is meant to be inclusive to everyone. However, just as we have in the past, we will also reference specific holidays such as Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa in our weekly ads, store signage and other advertising vehicles.

We encourage our employees to interact with customers naturally and feel free to wish them a Merry Christmas if they are celebrating that holiday.

Thanks again for your feedback.

~Elizabeth
Community Supervisor
Best Buy® Corporate

http://forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Weekly-Sales/Holiday-Messaging/td-p/71918
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[Tennessee Nana]

Well, obviously the Moslem dollar and religion and death culture is of more value to the compromising Best Buy...

So Americans with their Thasnksgiving should take their dollars elsewhere...

[Paige]

They will ‘not’ get one more dollar from this paying customer.

[Talisker]

Eid Al-Adha is a Muslim commemoration of the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son Ismael as an act of obedience to God. It upholds the Islamic concept of killing people, even family members, to please God. And as the whole world knows, Muslims take the killing of people in the name of God as perhaps the essence of the expression of their devotion.

This is now being held up by Best Buy as some sort of equivalent to Thanksgiving, wherein Americans thank God for the abundance shown them for following a path of freedom and property rights.

Corporate multinational managers sucking up to media manipulators backed by NGO one-world political intentions financed by global banking syndicates - is there anything they haven't yet raped for the common good?

[Monterrosa-24]

“...So Americans with their Thasnksgiving should take their dollars elsewhere...”

...Worth repeating. We are suckers if we support Mohammedan kow towing Best Buy by doing business there.

[DManA]

Are you supposed to go to indulge yourself at Best Buy for a festival of sacrifice?

[Domandred]

Well guess Best Buy doesn’t want my money this year.

[refermech]

I quit them about a year ago over a warranty issue. I’ll never go back.

[parsifal]

They must be trying to increase sales of their “Burka Party Bingo” boxed DVD set. A Muslim spin-off of Annette Funicello and whats his name surfing movies. Maybe Best Buy needs a little “sacrifice” in sales to wake them up.

parsy, who will but from Amazon instead of Best Buy this season because this crap just rubs me the wrong way.

[Monterrosa-24]

Muhammedans and Christians view the same story quite differently. Christian emphasis is on God saying the killing was not required.

Followers of the false prophet put the emphasis on the willingness to kill, even kill a loved one. That is the kind of submission that they love but they are submitting to the Dark Angel.

[iamweasle]

They’ll never see another dollar from me. I never did like shopping there anyway. Anything in their ad is what they don’t have in the store.

[I cannot think of a name]

Buy things there that are on sale, cheap, and do not require any support (DVDs, CDs, etc).

Anything that needs warranty or support - hitting yourself on the head with a hammer is faster and equivalent.

[Talisker]

Muhammedans and Christians view the same story quite differently. Christian emphasis is on God saying the killing was not required. Followers of the false prophet put the emphasis on the willingness to kill, even kill a loved one.

Here's some irony for you - it is extremely easy, even obvious, to interpret this story as God teaching humanity that the time for offering human sacrifice is over.

Not that God would ever require such a thing, but obviously people thought it was required, so this seems to be God intervening and saying, enough - no more.

Which means, therefore, that the Muslims are celebrating their refusal to heed God in this matter - that since Islam still promotes such slaughter "for God," Eid Al-Adha is literally their celebration of their rejection of God's command to stop.

[Mobties]

I hadn’t planned on visiting Best Buy. Somehow, I don’t think those plans will change ... though I just might avoid the parking lots that serve Best Buy stores as well as nearby restaurants.

[FrankR]

"Best Buy’s customers and employees around the world represent a variety of faiths and denominations. We respect that diversity and choose to greet our customers and employees in ways that reflect their traditions. "

I'm now done with Best Buy...forever.

I'm emailing everyone I know, as asking them to help me show Best Buy that America IS STILL a Christian Nation...no matter what the kenyan has said.

So, I think all Christians should boycott Best Buy, and let them know it.

Send Best Buy a "pink slip".

[1951Boomer]

Wonder why they feel the need THIS year to be so “inclusive” of Islam? If they keep adding every “religion” that comes down the pike, they won’t have room for the ads themselves. What about Scientology? What about Pantheists—even ATHEISTS?