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Complaints prompt Amazon to remove products that are offensive to Muslims
MSN Money ^ | January 8, 2019 | Alaa Elessar

Posted on 01/08/2019 6:13:22 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin

Amazon has pulled more than a dozen products off its website after receiving complaints that the items are offensive to Muslims.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, asked the online retailer last week to remove the products, which included doormats, bath mats and other items imprinted with Islamic calligraphy, references to the Prophet Muhammad and scripture.

The products, which were being sold by independent merchants on Amazon's website, are deemed offensive because they "would be stepped-on or otherwise disrespected by customers," CAIR said in a statement on Thursday. The following day, CAIR issued another statement welcoming Amazon's decision to remove the items from its website and conduct an audit to purge similarly offensive products. "We thank Amazon for its swift action on this issue and hope it sends a message to manufacturers of such inappropriate and offensive items that they will not profit from Islamophobia or any other form of bigotry," Masih Fouladi, executive director of CAIR's Washington state chapter, said in the statement. Amazon is based in Seattle, Washington.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: jihad; jihadists; muslim; muslims
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.


21 posted on 01/08/2019 6:46:25 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Trump 2020 - Re-Elect the M*****F***er!)
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To: GingisK

Islam wants to kill you.

Please comply.


22 posted on 01/08/2019 6:48:52 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Trump 2020 - Re-Elect the M*****F***er!)
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To: meadsjn

“Every part of human civilization is offensive to the sub-human savage muslims.”

That’s a fact.


23 posted on 01/08/2019 6:50:51 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

How about removing muslims offensive to me?

That would be...all of them.


24 posted on 01/08/2019 6:51:11 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Unredact the 99 page Collyer Report!!!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Boycott Amazon


25 posted on 01/08/2019 6:57:16 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: GingisK

Islam means submission.

Enjoy your submission.


26 posted on 01/08/2019 7:01:06 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

But Amazon is good for ordering infidel protective devices, like laser sights, ammo clips and CCW holsters. They come in handy when celebrating Christmas in San Bernardino or going to a night club in Florida.


27 posted on 01/08/2019 7:02:30 AM PST by PA-RIVER
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

There goes my wealth enhancement plan. I was going to sell rolls of toilet paper printed with Koranic script and pictures of the false prophet in search of real profit.


28 posted on 01/08/2019 7:02:38 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I guess I am done with Amazon too.


29 posted on 01/08/2019 7:04:34 AM PST by Agatsu77
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To: SkyDancer
Offensive stuff towards Christians and Jews still okay.

Like what?

30 posted on 01/08/2019 7:05:35 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Eventually they will ban books that are critical of Islam. Welcome to another sponser of Mad Moe’s Mafia!


31 posted on 01/08/2019 7:06:23 AM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Dear CAIR, please do not forget that homosexual people are offensive to Muslims. Will you demand anything with a rainbow or which can be interpreted to support gays be removed from Amazon also?


32 posted on 01/08/2019 7:07:40 AM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

"...That would be...all of them..."


I have contemplated how my life would be "degraded" if Muslims were to magically deport themselves back overseas and vanish from our society.

The real answer is that it might be harder to find decent hummus and falafel. Maybe harder to catch a taxi when I fly somewhere, yet that is about it. There is not a Muslim anywhere who has ever meaningfully improved my life.


33 posted on 01/08/2019 7:14:17 AM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Amazon, then, will have to stop all sales of Pork products and all Jewish Business products. Stop selling any books regarding Homosexuality. The list goes on and increases on and on.

Next, who else will they try to stop offending until they can't work?

34 posted on 01/08/2019 7:14:57 AM PST by CptnObvious (Question her now.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

So it’s the same being done for things at mock or disparage Christians?


35 posted on 01/08/2019 7:16:01 AM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: montag813

The whole article is confusing to me. For what market were these things made in the first place?

It’s hard to read the actual items noted, but they don’t seem to have been created to mock Islam.

So, who would buy them in the first place?


36 posted on 01/08/2019 7:17:07 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: cuban leaf

What about a grocery store that sells the NY Times?

A grocery store is no place for the Old Gray Whore.


37 posted on 01/08/2019 7:18:31 AM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Princess Gray Beaver, for President?)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I don’t have an Amazon account. I bought every single Christmas gift at a store.


38 posted on 01/08/2019 7:19:37 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Now we know who our real masters are.


39 posted on 01/08/2019 7:21:36 AM PST by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“Islam wants to kill you.”

Amazon employees have something to worry about.


40 posted on 01/08/2019 7:27:04 AM PST by cymbeline
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