Best Buy Ad Touting Muslim Holiday Sparks Debate
I don’t get it. I don’t understand how marketing firms can think it is non-offensive to generalize Christian Holidays and then specifically market to Muslims on Islamic holidays. I don’t have a problem with gearing their marketing towards Muslims and their holidays. Though, were I Muslim, I’d be offended with the commercial targeting of such a holy occasion. However, I question the wisdom of surrendering to the PC Police when it comes to Christianity by steering away from the use of terms like “Merry Christmas” and instead using Happy Holidays while specifically targeting Muslim holidays and using Islamic terms in the advertising such as “Eid Mubarak.” Muslims be careful. This is the first step towards commercializing your holy days. The last step is the loss of all meaning except gaining a profit from your religious and semi-religious cohorts.
As the old saying goes, BUYER BEWARE!
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I believe that God has no true connection to any of the established religions of our age. Every religioin/church of our age is an offshoot of some system of governance and all have been used for the accumulation and furtherance earthly authority/power.
I believe that God loves all of humanity and accepts all of mankind despite religious belief or affiliation. Furthermore, I believe that if he was as active an interloper in the affairs of man, he would have destroyed all of the current set of religions much as the Bible portrays him as destroying Sodom and Gomorra. All earthly religions are corruptions of the true spirit of God and humanity. Whether it be the Protestant/Catholic schism of Christianity or the Shi’a/Sunni schism of Islam, all sow discord and divide when they should be uniting energies for all of mankind.
Only when a religion unites mankind through compassion, spirituality and love–faith, hope and love–only then will a religion have the true authority and standing of God.
God is Faith.
God is Hope.
God is Love
For all of humanity. Not one race. Not one belief. Not only for straight people. Not only for Jews or gentiles or Muslims or Hindus or anyone one specific people.
God is for all of humanity.
Enough on Religion and it’s ill effects on humanity.
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My boy Farhad is leaving for Iran on Saturday. He probably won’t be back until after I depart for leave. Today, I wrote him a letter of introduction to the Embassy of the Netherlands for his Visa application. If all goes well, he’ll depart for the Netherlands before I return. I’m going to miss Farhad. And so it begins, the end draws near.