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Boycotting American Products Spreading All Over Arab Countries
Islam Online ^ | April 12 2002

Posted on 04/13/2002 12:28:36 PM PDT by knighthawk

ABU DHABI, April 12 (IslamOnline) - The call for boycotting American products is spreading all over the Arab countries responding to American’s unfairly supporting the Israeli atrocities against Palestinians. It has been clearly noticed that great numbers of Arabs refuse to purchase any American product or to have anything to do with American restaurants. In the United Arab Emirates there is a serious call for boycotting American products, IslamOnline correspondent reported.

The boycott is the least thing one can do to support his fellow Palestinians, Mahmoud Al-Ali, an Emirati civil servant, told IslamOnline Correspondent. He added that all Arab countries must unanimously agree on taking this bold step, then Americans will know that they will get nothing but losses.

As for Baligh Hamed, an Emirati police officer, it goes this way, when one purchases an American product one indirectly helps Israel continue its outrageous aggression against Palestinians, you pay for Americans and with your money they buy weapons that go to their fellow Israelis.

While Mohammad Karam, an Emirati businessman, suggests that America's political power is dependant on its economy, the moment U.S. citizens feel their interest is at stake because Arabs no longer covet their products, they will be obliged to pressurize the government to change its policy.

Emirati citizens were not the only ones who have taken the initiative. Also their fellow Egyptians have given their share. This was clear when a student in the medical school got out of his car in the most crowd place in Cairo and distributed posters that say "To all Egyptians !! Help your Fellow Palestinians by boycotting American products". I was grief-stricken when I saw what's happening to Palestinians and we can't do anything to prevent such atrocities, so I thought of distributing these posters among my colleagues, my relatives, among Egyptians so to speak, Samir Metwalli added.

Tunisia, among other countries, denounced the American policy and called it "The Policy of Indifference and Injustice"


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arabboycott; israel; usproducts
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To: knighthawk
This is really going to hurt the pork producers.
22 posted on 04/13/2002 1:42:25 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: knighthawk
Doesn't matter,we don't make CAMEL SADDLES!
23 posted on 04/13/2002 1:52:16 PM PDT by INSENSITIVE GUY
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To: knighthawk
LOL this ought to be interesting. Just what does the arab business person produce that anyone would buy?
24 posted on 04/13/2002 2:01:07 PM PDT by OldFriend
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To: knighthawk
Gosh, I wish they'd just boycott America--everyone here who's Arab or Arab heritage can just go back home. Then they'd be able to boycott America and American products much more successfully.
25 posted on 04/13/2002 2:30:09 PM PDT by Catspaw
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To: knighthawk
Boycott American Products ?????
What's that
26 posted on 04/13/2002 3:09:27 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: knighthawk
Good. At the same time we should close our borders to them. No student visas, no trips to Disneyland. And any Moslems here are welcome to go home.

And any America politician who shakes the hand of a Saudi who has blood on his hands, should be not receive one single vote. They write poetry about murderers! They are sick. Sick. Sick. They send children to kill while they eat at Harrods. They are sick. They are evil.

No Saudi should be treated like a human being. Even animals don't send out their young to die--they always try to protect their young. When the day comes that the people turn on these Saudi sheikhs, I want to hear them recite poetry about the glory of dying.

27 posted on 04/13/2002 3:20:20 PM PDT by IceGirl2
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To: knighthawk
The jokes on the Arabs - we're Americans, and we don't manufacture anything any more! (I guess they could stop calling our 1-900- sex lines?)
28 posted on 04/13/2002 3:22:49 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: knighthawk
Hopefully they will boycott our weapons systems as well.
29 posted on 04/13/2002 6:04:51 PM PDT by ikanakattara
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