Posted on 12/17/2011 5:58:25 PM PST by mandaladon
ALLEN PARK, Mich. Protesters descended on a Lowe's store in one of the country's largest Arab-American communities on Saturday, calling for a boycott after the home improvement chain pulled its ads from a reality television show about five Muslim families living in Michigan. About 100 people gathered outside the store in Allen Park, a Detroit suburb adjacent to the city where "All-American Muslim" is filmed. Lowe's said this week that the TLC show had become a "lightning rod" for complaints, following an email campaign by a conservative Christian group.
Protesters including Christian clergy and lawmakers called for unity and held signs that read "Boycott Bigotry" and chanted "God Bless America, shame on Lowe's" during the rally, which was organized by a coalition of Christian, Muslim and civil rights groups.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Detroit Democrat and the first Muslim woman elected to the Michigan Legislature, said it was "disgusting" for Lowe's to stop supporting a show that reflects America the conservatives, liberals and even "the Kim Kardashians" in the Muslim community, she said.
"We're asking the company to change their mind," said protester Ray Holman, a legislative liaison for a United Auto Workers local. He said he was dismayed that the retailer "pulled sponsorship of a positive program." A local rabbi extended his support to clergy at the protest and local Arab Americans, saying he and other Jews would have been at the protest had it not fallen during the Jewish Sabbath.
"I hope that they would likewise stand up and demonstrate should something outrageous like this take place against another religion," Rabbi Jason Miller said in a statement.
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And conservatives believe in freedom of association, which apparently you and your moslem buddies take exception to when a company decides not to associate with a clear example of moslem propaganda.
You wouldn’t be decrying Lowe’s decision if you were a true conservative and you sure as hell wouldn’t be supporting what is turning out to be another act of intimidation buy moslems to get their way.
1. Most Middle Easterners are not Muslim. I hesitate to use the term Arab as some take that offensively depending on their ancestry. The majority are Lebanese Christians, along with Chaldeans and Assyrians. Most, but not all of the Muslims are in Dearborn. A lot of the Chaldeans are now in Macomb County. A LOT of the recent immigrants are Chaldeans. Middle Easterners have been immigrating to the Detroit area since the 1920's. Ford plants.
2. The majority of Muslims are blacks. Most blacks aren't Muslim, but there are about 300,000 Middle Easterners in Michigan compared to about 1.3-1.4 million blacks. There's also a sizable Albanian population in Hamtramck.
3. Dearborn has a large Middle Eastern population, but it is still largely white ethnic. East Dearborn is heavily Middle Eastern. West Dearborn less so. It is also one of the safer suburbs that borders the city of Detroit outside of the Grosse Pointes. I'll say this. They take care of their city.
What the heck does this mean? Kardashian is an Armenian name. Armenians are Christians. The main relation they have to Muslims is being massacred by them, in the Armenian genocide.
If or when we begin to see a rise in the number of honor killings then that’s when I’d say there are serious enough problems to warrant certain interventions. Not just in SE Michigan but across the fruited plain.
Why are you sad that Lowe’s pulled their ads? What made the show interesting? Did they show any great honor killings or how women are treated like crap. Did they get out a copy of the book on how to beat a woman with rubber hose and not leave marks on her body? Did they use a Muslim woman to practice that?
Why are you so concerned that those pictures could be so easily confused with Allen Park?
“Why are you so concerned that those pictures could be so easily confused with Allen Park?”
Probably for the same reason that Middle East Muslim reactions (video) to 9-11 were/are sometimes mistaken for reactions to 9-11 by most Muslims in Dearborn, MI.
ironic that a muslim is using Christian Armenians as an excuse
didn’t they kill a couple of million of them 100 years ago to test weapons for a patch of land
Sad it's so hard to tell the difference, criminal that it has been allowed to happen.
We're losing our Country and it's happening right in front of our eyes, you don't dare say a word lest you be confronted by the thought police and labeled with various pejoratives.
What a mess....
I remember after the 2004 election, I saw a lot of commie ‘RAT talking heads spewing a new line. It went on for about a week but it appeared that no one was paying attention to what they were saying. They all were saying that the DemocRATS had to infiltrate all of the various religions and get liberal DemocRAT activists in as clergymen for these churches. The ‘RAT talking heads said that this needed to be one of the DemocRATS’ main objectives before the next election. From what I am now seeing, it does appear that they have achieved this objective. That is why I’m not impressed when I read that some “Christian clergy” were supporting some communist boycott, rally or cause. These people are not “Christian clergy”. They are commie ‘RAT activists posing as clergymen.
(and I don't watch them either)
None of these swine have ever lifted a finger to protest honor killings.
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