‘Boycott Best Buy’ Movement Takes Off
The government isn’t making this up as part of some anti-Muslim scheme, as CAIR would have you believe. In 1993, the FBI learned that about two dozen members and supporters of Hamas were going to hold a secret meeting in Philadelphia and decided to wiretap it. Among the participants were Shukri Abu Baker, the leader of the Holy Land Foundation, and Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad, two top officials of the Islamic Association for Palestine. The Muslim Brotherhood lists the IAP as one of its fronts and IAP’s ties to Hamas are thoroughly documented.
“War is deception. … Deceive, camouflage,” Baker forcefully emphasized during a discussion of how to, in the words of another participant, “support jihad in Palestine.” Another questioned, “This will be classified as terrorism according to America. … How are you going to perform jihad?”
Omar Ahmad explained how to play a game of semantics to trick Americans. He said that there is a difference between saying “I want to destroy Israel” and “I want to restore the [19]48 land,” which would mean the elimination of the state of Israel. He admited that “we didn’t say that to the Americans.”
The discussion turned to the need to create new groups with less baggage. One participant said, “We must form a new organization for activism which will be neutral because we are placed in a corner, we are place in a corner. It is known who we are, we are marked and I believe that there should be a new neutral organization which works on both sides.”
CAIR was created the next summer by Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad. That same year, Awad said, “I am in support of the Hamas movement.” A 2004 document by the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee lists CAIR and IAP among its “working organizations.”
Awad is still CAIR’s executive director. In 2004, he was asked by an Arab publication about the designation of Hamas as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. He replied, “We do not and will not condemn any liberation movement inside Palestine or Lebanon.” Ahmad was the national chairman until 2005. In April 2011, Patrick Poole broke the story at PJ Media that the Justice Department blocked a planned prosecution of Ahmad.
CAIR and its Islamist allies are swinging hard, especially at government agencies involved in counter-terrorism. The Muslim Brotherhood, shockingly, is viewed as a “moderate” force by the current government. The boycott of Best Buy is an opportunity for people to make a real difference. Let’s not pass it up. Sign the petition and send it to your friends, family, and colleagues.
BBY is in big trouble with or without this boycott. They will be out of business in 5 years.
I was so outraged at their mendacious behavior that I am boycotting them ALL the way from Israel. Why is this relevant? I, like many others in Israel, still own a home in the US. As such, I purchase things for said home when the need arises. I ordered from BEST BUY before, but NO longer. Therefore, this boycott is not just US based!!
Take THAT (formerly) BEST BUY! I too signed the petition, many others should do so , if they haven’t already. The consumer does have power…..
Boycott Fox Snooze for sponsoring a Sharpton black conference in DC back in April. I bet O’Really will be the first to interview that race hustler when the Zimmerman case is adjudicated.
Considering Al Sharpton is going around telling people that if Zimmerman isn’t found guilty, that there will and should be race riots, I’d say the good(?) reverend is a perfectly legitimate part of the Trayvon Martin case.
This is where I have to draw the line. Matt Kenseth is my favorite NASCAR driver and Best Buy is supposedly his #1 sponsor. So, I won’t sign this petition. However,..
Best Buy, what the hell are you guys thinking? Kenseth won the Daytona 500 this year and that gave you more advertising than you could buy for the money you spent sponsoring him for twelve lousy races. What has sponsoring CAIR events ever gotten you? No wonder you guys are losing money, you can’t even make the right public relations decisions when your choices are obvious. Stop sponsoring a bunch of sorry ass terrorist supporters and spend that money on a Championship NASCAR driver who will give you good exposure week in and week out. Sheesh, you guys are dumb and dumber! For crying out loud!
And yet you will continue to support BB. Might want to get out of that glass house, my friend.
Just signed the petition.
I’m afraid he has the same ability to “Compartmentalize” that Slick Willie does and the same as the group who just LOVE HBO shows but hate their left wing Marxists ideology. Whenever you support any organization with your money you allow them to continue their un-American ways. Of all the things to support why for God’s sake would any sane company endorse and fund a terrorist group like CAIR? Are they the small minority that thinks Islam is a religion? Do they not have eyes and ears? Where do they get the right to accuse anyone of intolerance while backing the most intolerant organization in the world?
I guess I have a sense of humor and you fellas don’t. Whichever one of you thinks supporting Matt Kenseth is a vote for Obama really needs help, I says. Maybe you should look at my last thousand or so posts concerning the Communist in our White House. Sheesh.
There is nothing funny about the Islamic threat you YOUR LIFE, infidel.
Say, got a daughter? How’s she going to look in that burka that you did nothing about when you could.
Oh, yeah, I forgot. NASCAR is more important.
My bad.
Forget sarc/on switch?
Mark V, you must be a dour kind of a guy. Of course the international terrorist threat is serious. Get a damned sense of humor. You will live longer. Boycotting an American company will only make them think twice about the stupidity of funding any events that include CAIR. It would be unlikely to make you any safer from the international terrorist threat, however. Had you read my post as it was written, you would have noticed that I have had my own issues with the Best Buy bozos well before there was any talk about them sponsoring a CAIR event in Minnesota, so I thought I would try a little humor about their poor selection of public relations advertising. ABO2012
So you’re okay with supporting Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood because you like Matt Kenseth? Seriously?
That’s like saying you’ll vote to give Obama 4 more years to destroy America because you like George Clooney.
Personally, I wouldn’t buy a AAA battery from Best Buy.
I don’t remember saying that. Try taking credit for your own remarks and don’t make up mine for me, bozo.
Matt Kenseth needs to find a new sponsor. He is promoting CAIR. Have you written him a letter or tried to contact him about it?
Eeeewwww. Nascar? Bleh! Pedal to the metal and push the other guys out of the way. Ick! Not racing when you win by doing that. Just a very expensive destruction derby. About on par with Wrastling, or whatever they call that nowadays. BORING!
Matt Kenseth is trying to find other sponsorship right now. If one of you enlightened people would like to sponsor him, it would only cost about $750,000 per race. Matt still needs sponsorship for 18 races this year, so about $13,500,000 should do it and you can put the Best Buy boycott on the hood of his car. That should just about slam the door on old Best Buy. I don’t buy anything from them anyway. As for CAIR, maybe THEY should be the target of your ire since THEY are the people who actually finance the terrorists. And finally to Chris in California: Excuse me, but you don’t know f*** all about racing so just shut the f*** up, boy.
THIS is most likely why Best Buy supports CAIR.
Canadian readers should also be aware that Best Buy owns Canadian electronics retailer Future Shop.
So your pleasures override human lives.
You are a disgusting animal.
Aside from its bland, all-purpose, meaningless statement about respecting diversity and maintaining good relationships, WHY in god’s name is Best Buy doing this? Are they ignorant? Is there a radical executive knocking around up there?
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
The executives in question are Iranian Muslims Hassan Khosrowshahi and Mohammad Kiabakhsh.
Best Buy’s HQ is in Minnesota, one of the most liberal states in the USA. It’s the home of “Prairie Home Companion” after all. No doubt, there are liberals running that business, and as liberals often do, running it into the ground. I’m sure there’s a whole host of “organizations” like CAIR they are throwing money at, that we don’t know about.
If I had to boycott every company that gives money to stupid causes, I wouldn’t be able to buy much of anything. Well, maybe something nice from Rock River Arms, but that would be about it.
Alexander the Great
Once again we may have inadvertently stumbled onto how countries slowly go mad – it’s because everyone around you in your culture begins to adopt a casual approach to radicalism and also allows it to become institutionalized.
This is what I think of when I see CAIR institutionalized within Best Buy.
It’s what I think of when I see the YWCA sponsoring a white privilege conference in Minnesota which was also sponsored by Minnesota colleges.
It’s what I think of when I see the NBA Players Assoc. release a press release on Trayon Martin that is every bit as disgusting as German pronouncements about Jews in the 1930s, but without a peep when an actual, not pretend, hunter-killer team of Malvo-Mohamed assassinated white people.
It’s what I think of when I see MSNBC and CNN employ bitter racists.
It’s what I think of when I see our President spend 20 years in a black KKK church.
It’s what I think of when I see Syracuse, Tulane, Cornell and Princeton employ professional racists.
It’s what I think of when I see Affirmative Action formally and legally institutionalize racism.
There’s more, much more, but anyone who thinks these occurrences don’t match up with the same intellectual and philosophical space as does Nazism, isn’t thinking clearly. Nazis and the KKK did their hand-wringing and claims of defense and their propagandizing too.
Resolve faltered, context and proportion disappeared, racial violence on the streets went unchallenged. No, the Left has no plans to kill anyone, they don’t need to, they have all the babies of the Third World to pare down numbers over as many years as it takes in a version of their own breeding program.
Roland Martin Tweeted a few days ago that racism in in the DNA of America and we all know exactly what he meant and that Obama, Eric Holder and the entirety of the Democratic Left agrees.
Indeed Fail Burton.
One humorous aspect of this demonizaiton of White European Christians, is that the Jews who for the most part enjoy, support, and take part in it, are now being realigned with the White Europeans, by the Left and their gaggle of Maoist racist so called minority groups.
White Europeans make up less than 7% of the world population, the Jews much less. Those 2 global minorities have been targeted for racial and cultural genocide by much of the world, and the Western Left and their minority identity politics cohorts.
I can’t speak about the state as a whole. but when I lived in Minneapolis in the late 1970s there were a lot of people who were not real happy to have Jews living among them. Especially if those Jews did not know their place and did not want to pretend they were Scandinavian Christians. Some of those people would express it to your face, others only behind your back. And you could find that attitude among liberals (my first encounter with liberal, supposedly tolerant anti-Semitism), conservatives, secular and Christian, educated and working class.
Fail Burton,
Those comments are spot-on. Well written, passionate and perfectly clear
Gotta change the first name for that one
Minnesota is today home to thousands of Somali Muslims. According to a recent CBS report, 72% of refugees granted asylum last year ended up in the US. And I suspect most of them are Muslim. Best Buy was just sucking up to one part of their local customer base. That’s not to say they don’t deserve to be boycotted.
I rarely go into Best Buy, my last purchase being online for store pick up but I can see now, whenever that last visit was… will be just that. The last.
Bye Bye Best Buy
Bye bye Best Buy. And to think I was going to buy an HDTV there within the next month or two.
Why is it these corporate types are so looney? Is it the liberal indoctrination they received at university? Not even brainwashed but brain-dead, that’s what they are. The sooner liberals wake-up to reality, the reality that diversity and equality are mere tools for elites to amass power and that common-sense Americans can see through the scam, the sooner we’ll be rid of their obnoxious and noxious behavior. I’m voting, in the meantime, with my dollars.
Darcy,
Maybe its not indoctrination, maybe its just the “go along” politics everyone rolls their eyes at,
but does anyway these days??
I mean, what corporate “ethics and diversity” program DOESNT pander to the myth of perpetual white oppression? And bend over backwards to “prove” thats not “us”?
Name a CEO in America that would care about the fallout from imaginary “hurtful” comments made about white christians, or for “stereotying” the purchase preferences of white consumers?
Verses how fast they go into damage control to avoid bad press and pay off the likes of Jessie Jackson
when the shoe is (crammed but wont fit) on the other foot?
For now, yeah, I’m boycotting Best Buy…
But lets play Devils Advocate for a minute….
Is it possible Best Buy is the VICTIM of some sort of muslim backmail/coercion/pressure?
Nothing satisfies muslims more than humiliation of the Infidels.
They might WANT a boycott to hurt Best Buy….
Three birds with one stone:
A bag of money for Hamas.
A ruined Infidel Company.
AND more P.R. proof that Americans are in fact “racist” for boycotting Best Buy.
Cry victim while killing the baby, Mohammad would love it!
They arent the most deceitful, duplicitous, lying and violent scoundrels on earth for nothing!
Is someone high up at Best Buy a muslim? Why would they support these monsters? We’re due for some new electronics, but we won’t be going there anymore. I hope we boycott them right into bankruptcy.
maybe they just dont want the idiots to blow up any of their stores
I’m not one for boycotts. At least until I cash in my rewards points!
Coward.
Not redeeming rewards points just increases their profits.
I work in retail (though NOT at Best Buy). You are correct.
Just go back once to redeem the rewards points, so that they don’t get the extra profit, and avoid them from then on, or until they change their policies (yeah, I know, fat chance).
Quisling.
What do Arby’s, Coca Cola, Pesico, Men’s Wearhouse, Ford, Bank of America, Little Caesar’s Pizza, Kraft Foods, Dell, Microsoft, and now Best Buy have in common? They have all taken a side in the cultural/political wars, and it isn’t our side.
It appears a great many corporations are betting that the Left in this country will be coming out on top for the foreseeable future, and they are hedging their bets by shunning conservatives and their organizations as well as jumping on left-wing bandwagon in hopes of gaining some goodwill. It is a vain hope: the Left hates them for what they are (corporations) not their latest political contribution.
Nevertheless, corporate perfidy should remind us that big business and free enterprise are not the same thing, and our goal should be to save capitalism, not crony capitalists.
Add Levi’s and Proctor & Gamble to that list.
Kraft Foods? Wow, I know that Jim Kraft, decendant of the founder, is a Republican member of the AZ House. Wish it had stayed in the family.
Ah, hell. Coke, Ford, and Dell? Coke was my alternative to fetus-harvesting Pepsi, Ford is my alternative to Gubmint Motors and Executive Fiat-Chrysler, and Dell just plain makes good ‘puters. What did these guys do? I must have been asleep for a while.
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I’d love to boycott Best Buy for sponsering CAIR, but I’m already boycotting them for bad service and terrible selection.
Same here. I’ve been boycotting them for about fifteen years.
Me too. And don’t forget the aggressive up-selling (extended warranties, premium cables, etc.) if you do decide to buy something.
Yeah, I started boycotting them several years ago when I bought a car radio kit that was supposed to have everything necessary for installation (salesclerk’s words) then had to pay out the nose for a frame and cable that companies on the internet gave away for free.
Bye bye, Best Buy.
Ditto. I’ve been boycotting them since a purchase of several thousand dollars and being called in not once, not twice, but three times to pick up said merchandise only to find it not there. When I raised my voice just barely above normal asking why we were called in the third time the agent walked out and said he would not serve us (wife and 6 year old son with me).
Turns out he was the manager and when my wife went off on him I knew something must be really wrong. He told us to leave. We did and then returned our $3k TV and the rest of everything and never looked back.
They really do hate their customers. Strange if you ask me. Customers can be a**ses make no mistake – we are business owners ourselves, but BB goes out of their way to be sure you don’t upset them. Good luck with that!
I guess I’ll be getting that iPhone from Verizon instead of Best Buy.
Amazon Prime annhilates Best Buy in every way except immeadiacy, and even that is pretty quick.
“Best Buy” (HAH!) lost me over a decade ago. They wouldn’t honor one of those warranties they’re constantly pushing. Then they wouldn’t take back dysfunctional games, then their staff became horrible and insufferable to deal with. Heck, they can’t even remember to deactivate their security tags 9 out of 10 times.
It’s a very rare time when I purchase something from that ****box of of a store. The last was a stereo installation where they butchered the cabling in my dashboard, and left cut marks in my faux-leather trim.
Although… I shudder to think what will happen when their employees are let loose into the job searching pool.
Always get car audio products and installation from a place that specializes in car audio.
Done. I usually only made convenience buys from them when I didn’t want to wait for shipping, but that’s now, officially, over. Support of Islam is definitely a point of delineation with me. And when you start earning “platinum” status with CAIR. Well, you aren’t just an incidental contributor.
Best Buy card is paid off and now in pieces. I will gladly drive the extra 10 miles to Fry’s to avoid supporting those who would prefer to see my daughters heads cut off rather than leave us to live as we want.
I boycotted Best Buy at least 7 years ago after some lousy service and thoroughly rude treatment at one if its stores. I complained to management and was struck by their “too bad, Bud” reply. I have done my best to let my friends know that they’d be better off taking their business elsewhere. I’m still fuming.
BB’s online statement points to how they: “choose to engage with our customers, employees and communities in ways that reflect their traditions”! What if those “traditions” involve terrorism and Islamic coercion?! I say: I don’t “CAIR” for BB anymore!
I haven’t shopped there in years, whatever their politics. I don’t really need a $22 ESP on a $5 HDMI cable, thanks, kid.
A response to Best Buy could be couched in the same language they use. “I choose to engage with retailers in ways that reflect my traditions. That specifically includes boycotting merchants that support terrorist organizations like CAIR.”
This makes me sad on so many levels. One of them being that in spite of its financial outlook already being bleak, we still need a store around that sells DVDs at reasonable prices and sells computers and their components. Their appliance division they could do without, but with Circuit City and CompUSA and other competitors gone there’s little alternative left. I know Best Buy has been strangling themselves with their rapidly failing selection, poor inventory management practices, and an abominable lack of in-store staff when I need them (though no shortage of reps from my cable company), but we need a store like this. And now, this comes along. Gah.
Yes, Amazon Prime is awesome. But the main reason I’ve bought DVDs from them in the last few years instead of Best Buy has usually been immediacy; the price is often the same either way, at least for us New York state residents. But being able to physically examine merchandise truly does matter. The last time I needed a keyboard I searched exhaustively on Amazon but I didn’t feel comfortable buying one till I was able to actually go to a Best Buy and find the keyboard I was eyeing, and measure some dimensions that weren’t listed online. Comparing the relative quality of TVs and monitors would be impossible online.
There will always be a retail niche here, I think, but I don’t see who else can fill it. How do you boycott someone when they’re literally the only game in town, and what happens if they fail? I just wish we had someone else to step in here, who did things right. But it’d be enough if Best Buy just turned their backs on these hateful tools; that at least would be a sign there’s still a spark of intelligence left at corporate.
I have bought many things at Best Buy over the years; a couple of big screens, a computer, an iPad, and many accessories, DVD’s, etc.
NO MORE!
Wouldn’t matter if you never bought there again. You have enough to last a few decades!
Don’t just boycot, Buy lots of stuff and then use their return policy to take it all back. That will actually cost them lots of money.
Not if they charge a “restocking fee”.
Showrooming better than boycott. The big brick and mortar stores hate showrooming, when customers check out the merchandise and then buy online. I suggest going to Best Buy, compiling a list of expensive items: big screen TV, $1000;HD receiver, $500; surround stero speakers, $500;Blu Ray player, $100; accessories, $200. Tell the poor clueless sales associate that you want to buy all this (eyes light up) but you want to talk to the store manager. When the manager comes over tell her that you were going to buy from Best Buy but because of their political stance you will take your business elsewhere. If Best Buy realizes their profits depend on product rather than political correctness they might reconsider what they are doing.
Yet another reason not to shop at Best Buy. My #1 reason is everything I have ever bought there had to be returned. Every. Single. Thing. No matter the brand, it still never worked properly.
CAIR is the premier propaganda arm of the Global Jihad in America. The outfit has been linked to any number of acknowledged terror organizations, a number of its past leaders are either in jail on Jihad felony counts or on the lamb. The Feds named CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land terror funding felony case. It studiously ignores Islam’s scripture, which commands predation of all other belief systems, which it has a well documented history of pursuing. It also ignores the scripture’s command for global takeover, which Islam has rich history of numerous religious warfare bloodlettings going all the way back to the Wars of Compulsion to the Moghul in India (60 – 90 million killed) centuries ago to the murdered Judeo-Christian grade schoolers in Beslan, Ossetia and, of course, the World Trade Center, not once but twice. The last 1,400 years has been an unbroken streak of world takeover increments. Lebanon is falling now, the latestg of dozens of countries to fall into the clutches of Sharia. CAIR has been caught misrepresenting Moslem-related news stories a number of times, but has never acknowledged any lies or apologized.
And the news entertainers love CAIR. So do the academics, and the socialists (i.e., the Democrats and RINOs). TX governor Rick Perry is in bed with ‘em. Disgrace Congressman Weiner is married to one of ‘em. The dearly departed Tim Russert used to have CAIR spokesmen on his Sunday show to discuss Islam, and like to phrase his “tough” questions talking about “the Holy Prophet Muhammed.” Never heard Tim ask a tough question about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, though.
Amen.
Jim Baker stupidly wrote:
There is no “international terrorist threat”. There is an Islamic terrorist threat, and it’s right here, enabled by the likes of you and Best Buy.
Tell your daughter about your sense of humor after she’s been gang-raped and had her throat cut by the new rulers of America, the Best-Buy-enabled Muslims you laughed about.
Ha ha.
Well, I will now buy my 18 megapixel camera, my 60 inch led tv, my laptop, my ipad, my notebook and my kindle elsewhere. These louts think they know business but until they learn that Islam wants to destroy them and everything they stand for, their business will continue to suffer.
I’ll buy the new MacBook Pro when it comes out, but not at Best Buy.
I’ll buy an iPad 3, but not at Best Buy.
I’ll buy a new iMac when it comes out, but not at Best Buy.
No cell phones, no computers, no TV’s, no nothing!
You can get cell phones – including iPhones – directly from the cell phone companies. You can get your other Apple goodies directly from Apple. If you need business equipment such as printers, you can get them at office supply stores. You can get good home appliances at Sears – and no, I don’t work for Sears; I just buy their stuff.
I am so sorry to hear this. Best Buy always was one of my favorite stores. I cannot in good conscience support them now.
yeahhh, best buy will now be free of zionists
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