Lowe's, Religious Groups, and Muslim TV shows by AnthonyT

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Lowe's, Religious Groups, and Muslim TV shows

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Wednesday, December 21, 2011 3:01 PM

Freedom is Important because People are Important

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/21/showbiz/tv/lowes-wont-resume-all-america
n-muslim-ads-ew/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7

Hello,

This is why people think religion is full of nutters.

Some religious groups were enraged at a TLC show called All-American Muslim failed to portray Muslims as being bloodthirsty, evil killers. Lowe's had purchased ad-space that included airings of their commercials during the show. But negative comments on their forums convinced Lowe's to pull their ads just before religious groups delivered formal requests that the ads be pulled.

So the message here is, "If you dare show Muslims as anything other than sadistic savages, we will sink you."

Thanks, Christian world. Please get off my team.

--Anthony

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"In every war, the state enacts a tax of freedom upon the citizenry. The unspoken promise is that the tax shall be revoked at war's end. Endless war holds no such promise. Hence, Eternal War is Eternal Slavery." --Admiral Robert J. Henner

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Thursday, December 22, 2011 9:57 AM

CANTTAKESKY

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Thanks, Christian world. Please get off my team.

I SOOOOO need that on a t-shirt.

I think the appropriate response is to flood Lowe's with plans of boycott to not support their religious bigotry. That is the only way to make a corporation grow a backbone.

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"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it." - Richard Lamm

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Thursday, December 22, 2011 12:10 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Yanno, most of the Muslim folk I know, with a few exceptions, are pretty laid back, although they do find a dark, bitter and ironic amusment at being portrayed as savage and bloodthirsty by folks who do much the same but dress it up prettier instead of being honest about it...

Anyhows, there's a certain amusement factor in being labelled a villain no matter what you do, and then just deciding to roll with it in a mocking and amusing fashion, this I know all too well.

So I was speaking to one of these guys recently, and he said maybe he oughta get a big fancy turban and a plastic scimitar and stomp around glaring at people next time they have a CAIR meeting as a piss-take against the whole notion.

I offered to buy the scimitar.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Thursday, December 22, 2011 12:17 PM

DREAMTROVE

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Please get off my team.

Taoists never really have this problem, but I have to say, as a jew, I have it a lot, particularly as a zionist. Fewer things are worse for zionism than redefining the map of Israel to include All of Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, 1/2 of Iraq, part of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and a piece of Turkey. That's an awful lot of brand new enemies, and all of them either border or are in immediate proximity to Israel.

I would only temper it to "hey, shmuckos." because really it's not all of christianity you're angry at, it's some random loon, and lowes, which, for some reason, listened to this otherwise rather irrelevant character.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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