{"id":217144,"date":"2009-11-24T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T04:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25565721.post-8473638473215944030"},"modified":"2009-11-25T01:17:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T06:17:10","slug":"best-buy-ad-celebrating-eid-al-adha-has-right-wing-in-a-tizzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217144","title":{"rendered":"Best Buy ad celebrating Eid al-Adha has Right Wing in a tizzy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Apparently the right wing crazies are up in arms again about the fact that it happens to be a Muslim holiday – Eid al-Adha. In fact Muslims have been having holidays for the past 1430 years so perhaps it’s not that big of a deal if a store like say, Best Buy<\/a>, wants to acknowledge the fact.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, this is probably the first time a retailer has sent out such Islamic holy day greetings, according to CAIR<\/a> (Council on Islamic Relations). And what happened?<\/p>\n

Vitriolic spewing by hateful narrow-minded people who have no respect for others, such as this Best Buy forum<\/a> demonstrates. Why is it either Christmas or<\/span> Eid. Either Hannukah or<\/span> holiday? This article at Right Pundits <\/a> pretty much sums up their thinking. In my opinion, exploit them all! On one hand people complain about the commercialization of [fill in holiday here] and on the other, everyone wants a piece of the action. Go ahead, sell your soul. Let companies and corporations exploit your holy day for profit and consumerist values. Of course, they should also have sent out Happy Thanksgiving ones. And maybe they did, it’s unclear. I know I haven’t seen any Eid flyers but I’ve seen so many “Thanksgiving Sale” ads that it’s hard to keep track of whether I’m supposed to wake up at 4 am or 5 am to get the big sale. What?! Do “they” really want me to get up that early to shop<\/span>?! Anyway, happy Thanksgiving to all Americans, happy Eid to all Muslims and happy whatever to whomever you are and want recognition \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

* Thanks to John Biggs<\/a> at Crunch Gear<\/a> for the picture of the ad<\/p>\n

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Apparently the right wing crazies are up in arms again about the fact that it happens to be a Muslim holiday – Eid al-Adha. In fact Muslims have been having holidays for the past 1430 years so perhaps it’s not that big of a deal if a store like say, Best Buy, wants to acknowledge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3982,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}