Caribou Coffee 88% Owned by First Islamic Investment Bank

The Bleat ^ | June 13, 2002 | James Lileks

[Henk]

Out of respect for Lileks' rights to the material, please just shift-click on the link above.

[BallandPowder]

More about Cresent and an Atlanta Georgia connection!

Crescent Capital Investments Inc. was behind one of the biggest deals in Atlanta last year, a deal you likely didn't hear about.

Atlanta Connections!

[ppaul]

Have you noted that all of their directors are white boys?
And, not a one wearing a diaper on his head?
(and not one woman! What about diversity? The glass ceiling?!! Where's the ACLU?)

[BallandPowder]

Powder..Patch..Ball FIRE!

Atlanta's Mideast Connection!

[Still Using Air]

   "We're about the furthest thing from publicity hounds as you could be," said David Crosland, the company's president. ...
I bet that's an understatement.

  "Computer Generation ... which got $100 million from Crescent in May 1999, makes hardware and software that tracks a customer's use of telephones or the Internet."
...not that this purchase could have any impact on anything</sarc>

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[LarryLied]

Lieberman refuses to allow America to develop our own energy courses. He swore he would filibuster ANWR if needed. If Lieberman and the rest of the Democrats don't care if we send billions to the Muslim world for oil, why should I care about some coffee company no-one ever heard of?

[mhking]

Damn - and I like Caribou Coffee too!

[mhking]

Caribou Coffee contact info for FReeping (from their website):

The Caribou Coffee Company currently has about 185 stores. Our company headquarters are located at:

Caribou Coffee Company
615 North 3rd St.
Minneapolis, MN 55401

You can call us at:
(800) 576-3410 or
(612) 359-2700

CEO Don Dempsey
CFO George Mileusnic
Director of Real Estate John Gelderman
Director of Store Development Tom Berzinski
Director of Human Resources Karen McBride
Director of Coffee & Tea Chad Trewick
Director of Marketing Chris Toal

[thunderdome]

Thanks for the interesting link....as someone else mentioned, we should put together a comprehensive database driven site to track all of the Fundamental Islamist holdings so that we can keep our USDollar$ out of their hands.

[tsomer]

From the article you cite:

... Media investments can be tricky, too, because some companies have subsidiaries tied to the pornography industry, Crosland said.

They don't name names here, but I wonder how deeply are these Wahabis into CNN and Turner's other outfits. Remember his declarations on family-friendly broadcasting some years back?

[Clemenza]

Lileks fan bump. I have to thank Freeper Iowahawk for introducing me to this wonderful man's site.

[Clemenza]

Well, at least the AJC actually endorsed ANWAR drilling.

[Eva]

Did you see that they own Yakima car racks and accessories? or that they also just bought Sunrise Assisted Living ?

[LarryLied]

Good! AIPAC came out after the fact and made noises about America developing our own resources also. Pathetic that we have to pin our hopes on a foreign lobby such as AIPAC to use what is ours however. There isn't much doubt that if AIPAC wanted ANWR open, it would be open.

[Snuffington]

After being upset about Caribou Coffee, click on the link to The Thunderbird. I have laughed out loud sitting here all by myself. (Dog thinks I'm nuts.) Be sure you take the entire tour! LOL!

That's not even the funniest motel on his site. Check out "The Gobbler" in the "Institute of Official Cheer" section.

[Miss Marple]

I am familiar with "The Gobbler." Is that not the funniest thing you have ever read? I am sory that "Interior Desecration" is down for a while. That was even funnier.

Since I came of age in the 70's, I find the comments on the decorating hilarious. Glad you enjoyed it!!

[mhking]

From my Ramblings' Journal this afternoon:

I love good, strong coffee.

I'm one of those folks who will fix a pot in the morning and drink two good strong cups before 9AM. I'll leave my coffee pot on all day as well. My poison dujour alternates between Starbucks, Caribou and (when I'm a little low on coin) Chock Full O'Nuts.

Well, it looks like it's time to strike Caribou from that list of my preferred brews. This decision pains me - the people that work there are friendly; the coffee is good and strong (two of my qualifiers), albeit different in taste than Starbucks. Plus they have great holiday drinks.

What led me to this decision is a note I got the other day -- one that appears to be circulating on the internet apparently -- and found that my beloved Caribou Coffee is 87.8% owned by an entity called the First Islamic Investment Bank. Now, considering my wariness of things Islamic -- having Islamic terrorists wipe out a couple of skyscrapers will do that to you -- I checked it out.

First place I looked was the venerable Snopes.com. Snopes is the definitive research source regarding urban legends and other such things in the way of rumors on the web. Snopes pointed me directly to First Islamic, and sure enough, there it was in black and white. Well, investigating further, I found that the list of principles of First Islamic included a statement that said, "Above all, ensuring that all activities conform to Islamic Shari'ah."

OK, what does that mean? Looking up the definition, I found:

The Arabic word shari`ah refers to the laws and way of life prescribed by Allah (SWT) for his servants. The shari`ah deals with the ideology and faith; behavior and manners; and practical daily matters.

What that says to me is that they follow the Qur'an implicitly. On the surface that sounds OK, except that also implies that they would then support the more radical elements. Those are the ones that want to see all of us dead. While I certainly don't see any of those sorts of elements within Caribou Coffee, I would rather err on the side of caution. I don't know about you, but I definitely don't want to see any of my hard-earned dollars going to the support of radical Islam, and potentially supporting the murder of innocents in the United States or anywhere else for that matter.

Until Caribou can provide me with some satisfactory assurances that this isn't happening with the money that I spend with them, I'll have to take my dollars elsewhere for my coffee.