Rightwing uproar over Best Buy’s ‘Happy Eid al-Adha’ wish to Muslims

yeah i would hate for Best Buy to try and bring in more diverse business…
the response is more of a story than the actual Best Buy holiday greeting.

Maybe you should tell your readers what the muslim holiday actually means — it celebrates beheading dhimmi.

I thought the freepers were all about a free market. Shouldn’t Best Buy be allowed to profit through sales to Muslims?

The issue is that BB has said they won’t wish a “Merry Christmas” but are happy to wish “Happy Eid al-Adha”.
Who cares if there are 1.5 billion Muslims. Islam has presented itself as the religion/political system of persecution and death. We are still waiting for the 1.4 billion “good” Muslims to denounce the jihadist murderers who belong to Islam. Instead we see cheering when Americans are murdered and moronic boobs screaming death to America.

I’ll not shop at Best Buy.

Gosh, I’m sure they’ll miss you.

Free, everyone is free to be stupid, but you seem to be abusing the privilege.

Eid celebrates the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son at the command of God. See Genesis 22.

Couldn’t have said it better Randy.

I am one of the 1.4billion Muslims and I denounce terror and suicide bombings, but just as you do not associate yourself with Christian fanatics such as Hitler, Joseph Garrido, or the IRA, we do not associate ourselves with terrorists.

All muslims can go live and purchase in the other part of the world where it is accepted. I do not accept muslims in my country, my state, my county or my community. Best Buy was a joke before this but now is invisible to me and my family, we will purchase else where.

It’s accepted here, Andrea. That freedom of religion thing we were founded on… remember?

Andrea, who said it’s your, and only your, country?

Go live in some other part of the world if you don’t like it.

The cries of socialism and fascism generally denounce the practice of HOMOGENIZING the “Holidays” in a non-secular way. Like when Christmas Trees are “outlawed” in the schools. This seems to be the opposite??

Good wishes to Muslims would not leave such a bad taste in the mouths of non-Muslims IF Best Buy did not have a “no Merry Christmas” stance as of 2006.

Want to make everyone happy? Then wish ALL groups a happy whatever and be done with it. How does Muslim rate above “Christianity” and “Judaism”?

Catering to Muslims above others is inappropriate and just plain bad business, not that I care about Best Buy’s success.

Pork sandwiches to you all.

God bless you too, Andrea.

Umm I am also one of the 1.4 Muslims in the world. I denounce terror as Islam’s basis is on peace. What the media brings to people is the part in the Quran when Muslims were to kill any nonbelievers at sight. That ayah or verse is the basis of terror groups like Al-Qidah and Taliban. Islamically they are going against our religion. That verse in the Quran was only applied to those Muslims who were to reclaim Makkah for Islam from nonbelievers. These nonbelievers were to be killed because they spread lies and slandered Islam disgracing its honor plotting its downfall. What the media fails to send to the people is that those nonbelievers, if asked a Muslim for protection, were to be given protection by the Muslims and were not to be harmed. That is Islam, to fight for being allowed to practice our religion and to stop those who extremely tarnish Islam with evil intentions. But enough of that, its a different topic. So overall I do not and will never accept the acts of these terror groups under the name of Islam as acceptable.
For the fact on BB giving Eid-ul-Udha wishes to Muslims, is not a big deal. Christmas wishes are always being spread by everyone, Muslims don’t protest. If BB send us wishes i think its great. But if you are feeling they should send wishes to other religions then i believe you are correct too. They should show equality because each man is equal in the sight of God, as all 3 major religions show. If you are against any wishes to a certain religion at all, Islam in this case, then pray that racism and all predigest against another human is lost for until then our world is doomed.

Also if a religion’s world-wide view is based on the actions of one group killing innocents, please go ahead and google for knowledge’s sake Israels activities in Palestine this past year. Already a 3rd world country it is being demolished, its innocents destroyed kids women and the old. So logically every Israeli is not bad, neither is every American which i am PROUD to be. Rather people of certain religions exist who wish to rule over others. Please do not blame all Muslims for extremists’ actions.
And finally America has freedom of religion as listed above, so don’t hate appreciate :D
happy Hanukka, Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and Eid Mubarak.

Celebrate some muslim human sacrifice story but don’t celebrate the gift of Christmas. Gotcha. Hows this for an idea just be neutral on all of it and offend nobody.

Thank you Best Buy.

If all of the right wing Freepers stopped screeching for a second, they would realize that it celebrates an event that occurs in the Bible (Abraham almost slaughtering his son when he was told by God).

They just see the word “Muslim” and think “Aaaaaieeeee! Terrorist!”.
Dumbasses.

I work at BB and I’m proud to see the company reaching out to others! WHY do we turn everything into “I’m better than you” arguments? Its a waste of time, be happy with your life. If you don’t want to shop at Best Buy JUST BCZ of this WOW how ignorant are yoU! But hey we have alot of loyal customers so no worries. Happy Holidays everyone, and Happy Eid Al Adha to all the Muslims!!!!

There’s no point telling freepers you denounce terrorism. Muslims have denounced it and denounced it and denounced it, yet still the freepers keep insisting “no one ever denounces it!”. Sorry, but Muslim denunciations of terrorism just don’t fit their paranoid fantasy universe.

These messages reflect the state of tolerance and human decency in America. Several jerks spewing their hatred, each one responded to by wonderful people of good spirit like Randy and Paul Schmelzer and Kayla. Thank you to those commenters and to Best Buy for defending and representing what’s great about America.

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thank you best buy, and i agree with ahmad: And finally America has freedom of religion as listed above, so don’t hate appreciate

happy Hanukka, Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and Eid Mubarak.

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Actually Islam is the largets religion now:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,343336,00.html

Thanks for the link, Abe. I think that Islam is second compared to “Christianity” (i.e. all denominations); the Fox piece is specifically about Catholics, who are now outnumbered by Muslims.

Yeah, such a wonderful world. We can praise a Muslim holiday but heaven forbid we praise a holiday that has been observed in this country for ages…go figure.
Have a good laugh, libtards. You keep proving yourselves to be “useful idiots”. I hope your daughters look hot in a burka, and that your sons do good work under the table.

I used to WORK @ BestBuy and recommend it to all my friends. I used to recommend now I will flatly discourage anyone to shop their!
You cannot even adhere to the values of this country and promote CHRISTMAS!

Please fire the advertising firm and management that would rather live in Iran!

m****poo, DF, apparently you don’t know anything about Christmas, either. The universal celebration as we know it (comprised as it is of largely pre-Christian, pagan symbolism) has been around for roughly 100 years. Christmas in America owes as much, if not more, to Godey’s Lady’s Book and its editor’s search for a common national holiday as it owes to the Bible.

These Freepers are feeling uncomfortable because this incident challenges Christian supremacy in American popular culture. What a bunch of babies.

Daniel Friend etc.
Click the link at the bottom of the article UPDATE: Best Buy stands by ‘Happy Eid’ ad, will include ‘Christmas’ in new ads. You got your wish. Best Buy revised it’s policy and will be wishing folks a Merry Christmas. Is this enough for you?

Thanks Catholic American – I was just going to make that point. Christams hasn’t even occurred yet so nobody knew if BB had changed their policy and were going to start wishing all major religions a Happy….

People like Andrea, mohammedsukspoo and Daniel Friend are an embarassment to this country yet they think THEY are the ones who are patriotic! If being uneducated (most people who spew this hate I have noticed don’t have much more than a H.S. diploma or GED, just sayin) and ignorant is what it means to be a true American – then I’ll pass!

Thank you Best Buy for extending a congratulations to Muslim-AMERICANS (yes, those are American people just like the rest of you- and more importantly PEOPLE just like the rest of you).

Happy holiday season to everyone. Christmas hasn’t happened yet so you’ll get your ad in about a month.

Happy winter solstice to all, that at least is real. Giftmas sounds nice too.

The Solstice was the reason for celebrating this season for tens of thousands of years before Christianity jumped on the bandwagon. And as to those nitwits who are screaming about Islam being the religion of Death and Destruction and Intolerance, apparently they haven’t looked very closely at all at the history of Christianity, which pretty much has an unassailable lead as a cause of Death and Destruction and Intolerance over the last 17 centuries. Celebrate your own holidays, celebrate those of others, I don’t care — but don’t try to tell me that YOUR religion is going to dictate which holidays *I* can celebrate; it ain’t gonna happen.

In previous years, BB had the policy of using Happy Holidays and were criticized for it. So now they are trying to include all religions and are criticized for that. Its Happy Eid now, because Eid is celebrated at the end of November, it will be Merry Christmas later when we approach Christmas time.

All of you boycotter and haters are truly anti-American. Freedom of Religion and respect for the religious beliefs of others is one of the cornerstones of our democracy.

The part I always find baffling/amusing is that all the religions discussed here are branches off of Judaism. They all worship the same god, and use many of the same texts. With various inclusions for various branches.

Why do religions seem to have the worst fights between those that agree on much.

As to Best Buy, It’s a shame you can’t simply say happy holidays which is inclusive of all. But so many misguided folks think they are being slighted if they aren’t mentioned by name.

Believe what you will, In a perfect world you will all get the hereafter you profess in, All of it. Personally unless someone convinces me otherwise, I’ll fade quietly into the night.

Ward

Andrea says; “All muslims can go live and purchase in the other part of the world where it is accepted. I do not accept muslims in my country, my state, my county or my community. Best Buy was a joke before this but now is invisible to me and my family, we will purchase else where.”

You are an un-American jackass. Islam is accepted here in America, as is Christianity, Hinduism, Bhuddism, and even Scientology. Freedom of religion (and from persecution by select bigots such as yourself) is one freedom among many that make our nation great.

Your country? Surely you jest.

Thank you BB for Eid al-Adha wishes.

A lot of you guys are really ignorant. It happens that Eid is on friday and not in a month like christmas. I dont get why you all care that eid is in there. Us muslims dont care that you guys put merry christmas or any other things like that. I see nothing wrong with what Best Buy did. I will probably shop there more because of this.

Most Americans didn’t know anything about muslims until 9/11. Now we have this tolerance bullshit shoved down our throats. All you need to do to get some holiday wishes is to kill a few thousand people in the name of your religion. Why don’t the imams speak out against the “extremists?” Instead they all get angry at the people who take them out. Then they go beat women for not wearing socks…

Thanks Best-buy, love you guys. Thanks for recognizing and respecting muslims. All you right wing pu***es stop crying for nothing wrong. Why is there no upraor for Happy christmas sign or happy hanuka sign. Bunch of right-wing morons only know how to propogate hatred than love.

Love Bestbuy..Hurrah for the daring move.

Why is it that Muslims are not offended by the phrase “Merry Christmas” being put everywhere, and yet non-muslims think that “Happy Eid” is a crime? It’s because we are more open minded. We respect your religon, why can’t you guys just learn to respect ours?

I just took the time to read all of these comments. I just want to say that I don’t see anything wrong at all with Best Buy wishing us Muslims a Happy Eid. Those of you who are getting fired up over one small and positive thing about our religion, chances are you probably haven’t gotten to really know any of the Muslims around you. Many of the Muslims in America (and I say many because I don’t know every Muslim in America obviously), grow up just like any other American, love this country like any other American, and live their life simply according to their religion without extremist acts on their part. We’re just like any other human beings. Simply because there are people who committed terrorist acts and are Muslim does not mean that we associate ourselves with them and claim that what they did was right. I am simply saying that a lot of Muslims in America, myself included, live our lives normally, perhaps more normal than you think. Some of the comments above mentioned other people in past history that were of other religions, and I thought that was a good point to bring up. Every race, religion, group of people or whatever has had their time in which they’ve undergone some kind of discrimination or hatred from others. That’s human nature. When you don’t educate yourself enough to learn about those around you, and hear second hand information of course you are going to hate the people you barely or truly know anything about.

If you do want this to get into a messy argument, then yes. Look at the past. There have been atrocities that have occurred where millions have been killed, and the people that caused those tragedies weren’t all Muslim. Timothy McVeigh is another one. He was white…and a terrorist. But I don’t hate Caucasian Americans at all. I don’t see why anyone should hate us. At least try and learn a little more about the people who are your neighbors and are more peaceful group of people than their media counterparts.

Overall…thank you Best Buy for acknowledging us in a positive light for once. We all appreciate it, and are happy that you have taken a moment with us to wish us a happy holiday.

i don’t get this what’s wrong with best buy im just getting sick tired of this muslim this muslim that get a life guys! u don’t even know your own religions learn your own first before u judg others u guys need a god’s help as a muslim all i have to do s pray 4those needed

Freepers have realized the fact that they are no longer steering this Boat call America after their disastrous 16-years behind the wheel. They get confused and not know what they stand for anymore. hamm but they know how shout insult. go figure their state of mind.

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was it the profit of peace Mohamed said: (I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight the people until they proclaim, `None has the right to be worshipped but Allah’. Whoever said it, then he will save his life and property from me, except for cases of the law, and their account will be with Allah.)

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As a Muslim American, I am baffled by the amount of anti-Islamic spews on this comment board. I am utterly amazed that people believe that the extremist stances of 1% of the Muslim population epitomizes the beliefs of the rest of us. Just as we do not associate white Protestants with the KKK or working class youths with skinheads, we expect to not be associated with extremist groups who mold sacred Islamic values to there advantage.

William Blake once stated that “to generalize is to be an idiot” and that quote is completely applicable in this situation. Labeling and stereotyping people does not cause any progress; it merely inflames hatred and tension. This discrimination and xenophobia against Muslims is sickening and it makes one wonder about the intellectual state of America.

Since when was America founded on intolerance and bigotry? Didn’t we have one of the world’s bloodiest civil wars in order to fight prejudice and discrimination? America’s fundamental values most not be forgotten; everyone is entitled to freedom of religion and respect. So please save your dehumanizing comments to yourself and before you even decide to preach defaming statements about Islam, consider whether or not they have any intellectual and democratic basis.

Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Eid Mubarak to all!

First of all I’d like to thank Best Buy for wishing as all Muslims a Happy Eid! But I really do not understand what all the fuss is about? I mean us Muslim-Americans living here never get offended when we see Happy Christmas and Easter printed everywhere.

Happy Eid, Happy Hanukka, Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Kwanza, and Merry Christmas!

First of all I would like to thank Best Buy for wishing us Muslims a Happy Eid. But I don’t understand what all the fuss is about. Us Muslim/Americans don’t get mad when we see Merry Christmas and Easter printed everywhere.

Happy Eid, Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanza and Merry Christmas!

The fact is that BestBuy wouldn’t dare to say “Merry Christmas” but can say “Happy Eid al-Adha” is hyprocritical.

If we do not agree with the pc that Best Buy apparently chooses to arbitrarily utilize than we should just BOYCOTT Best Buy and make your purchases elsewhere. We should keep our money in our pockets and support retailers who are fair and equal.

Those of you who are complaining that Muslims who are not terrorists need to denounce Muslims who are need to familiarize yourself with Google, because you haven’t bothered to research the subject and twenty seconds on a search engine would demonstrate that you don’t know what you’re talking about.

This is why I left Minnesota.

Dear Best Buy

I am sorry for bad publicity and it would be better to not send us greeting. If you send us greeting but not christmas than people will dislike us more with you.

Thank you for the greeting. We love your shops.
Merry Christmas to everyone.

There’s no arguing with the freepers – certainly not from a standpoint of mutual rationality. These freeper flatheads, with their whining and mewling, are tiresome. Further, the freepers that devolve into gun-toting, frothing simpletons scare me much more than any Islamic terrorist (especially the ones freepers imagine are lurking about).

This is United States of America, At Christmas we have always said Merry Christmas
or Happy Holiday. As A America Citizen we the people should not have to change our
tradition if someone else don’t like it, walk away. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

THANK YOU BEST BUY!!!! FOR THE EID WISHES.

If you like what best buy did..
gimme a hell yea

Yes, Mr. Schmelzer, it is, in fact, a really bad marketing decision. The vast majority of the 1.5 billion muslims reside outside the U.S. What do you suppose is the Christian to muslim ratio here in this country? Best Buy has stores in other countries where it can use whatever local seasonal greeting is appropriate. Here in America, it’s MERRY CHRISTMAS. It’s the day we celebrate the incarnation of God the Son. Muslims do not believe Jesus is the Son of God. Islam seeks to abolish Judiasm, Christianity, and any other opposing belief, and where it isn’t abolished, such followers are reduced to second-class citezins. “Gun-toting freepers” didn’t murder 3,000 Americans on September 11th.

Paul: Eid doesn’t compete with Christmas (it happened around Thanksgiving, but was dwarved in Best Buy’s ad by the word THANKSGIVING, as the image above shows). And, for the umpteenth time, Best Buy has confirmed they’re using the word “Christmas” in ads this year.

i applaud BB’s decision. i am not religious in the slightest and i grew up on “merry christmas” instead of “happy holidays”. to me, “happy holidays” is far more PC than mentioning specific religious/cultural holidays, and i personally hate being PC. so to acknowledge holidays of other popular faiths and cultures is a good non-PC thing if you ask me. thank you best buy, for realizing that it is better to respect individuals, and not the hivemind of society.

@Paul Renwick, your comments are ignorant. While it is true that the majority of muslims OUTSIDE of America wish destruction upon our country, the majority of muslims IN America are proud American citizens, have moderate/liberal beliefs, and do not wish for conservative islam/sharia to be inflicted here in the land of freedom. I have many muslim friends and coworkers and not a single one of them support the fundamentalism that exists outside America.

“Gun-toting freepers” may not have murdered 3000 americans but they seem to be bigoted, xenophobic, and racist since they do not have respect for other cultures and faiths.

Let’s take one of their Muslim holidays and turn it into a Christian Holiday. Why can’t everyone just let the Christian’s alone. We are always under attack lately. Christmas is all about Christ, hence the name. Quit trying to turn it into something else. If you don’t worship Jesus Christ, then wait for your own holidays to celebrate!

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