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| "Backlash" for Lowe's as ads pulled from Muslim show |
| 2011-12-12 |
| Ay-peee handwringing. The retail giant stopped advertising on TLC's "All-American Muslim" after a conservative group known as the Florida Family Association complained, saying the program was "propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda's clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values." welllll. It certainly won't show Jihadis, but... The show premiered last month and chronicles the lives of five families from Dearbornistan, Mich., a Detroit suburb with a large Muslim and Arab-American population. A state senator from Southern California said Sunday he was considering calling for a boycott. "Watch me as I showboat and propose unconstitutional penalties!" Calling the Lowe's decision "un-American" and "naked religious bigotry," Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, told The Associated Press he would also consider legislative action if Lowe's doesn't apologize to Muslims and reinstate its ads. The senator sent a letter outlining his complaints to Lowe's Chief Executive Officer Robert A. Niblock. FYNQ |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #13 Seen at LoweÂ’s parking lot in Nashville: |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-12-12 20:30 |
| #12 Well, it says after, not because of. Fact is Billy the Exterminator will win every time against whiney suburbanites. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-12-12 17:56 |
| #11 Devoit is an archaic French version of "devout", so much of a muchness. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-12-12 12:22 |
| #10 The Devoit Lyin's? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-12-12 12:19 |
| #9 Watched a couple episodes and found boring. Noticed that none of the Fixed it for ya. But then I thought, hmmmm, devoit might have potential as a derivative of the word void. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-12-12 12:14 |
| #8 I'm with Rjschwarz, the show is aweful, and not only is the realty show market super-saturated the characters are not very compelling and could actually reinforce what these people would call negative stereotypes. Fat man who does nothing except get home as soon as possible to smoke she-shaw, you really want me to point and laugh? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-12-12 11:02 |
| #7 looks like they could spend their advertsing money on any show or channel they want too. |
| Posted by: chris 2011-12-12 10:26 |
| #6 Watched a couple episodes and found boring. Noticed that none of the devoit Muslims in the show were ever shown praying (let alone five times a day). Lowes could shut down locations if they want but Home Depot will just suck up the business so the protest would only hurt loses employees and families. |
| Posted by: Rjschwarz 2011-12-12 10:11 |
| #5 Ooops. I thought I'm reading "legal" (nor "legislative") action. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-12-12 09:01 |
| #4 Kudos to Lowe's for pulling their money from that piece of Islamic propaganda. Consider sending an email to Lowes showing your support of their decision. "All-American Muslim": A Little Taqiyya on the Prairie Part of the whitewash at “All-American Muslim” involves some of the program stars themselves. One of the American-born leads, Suehaila Amen, is a devout Shi’ite Muslim who wears the hijab and, just days after the 9/11 attacks, wrote a letter to a Lebanese newspaper, declaring Lebanon her “homeland” and America as a place where “everyone is your enemy.” It is unclear whether Amen knew at the time of the deep involvement of the Iranian terror proxy, Lebanese Hizballah, in the 9/11 attacks. Amen serves as 1st Vice President of the Lebanese American Heritage Club of Dearborn, MI, which has sponsored openly antisemitic, anti-Israel, and pro-Hizballah rallies and whose founder, Ali Jawad, was fired from the 2008 John McCain presidential campaign because of his alleged ties to Hizballah. On 21 June 2011, the Club held a boisterous rally in support of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, even as that dictator’s security forces were gunning down unarmed protestors in the streets. Club members also rallied against former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and cheered his ouster in February 2011, an event that cleared the way for the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood to power there. Amen also organized fundraising banquets in 2010 and 2011 for the Michigan Chapter of the CAIR Action Network; according to the U.S. Department of Justice, CAIR is the U.S. branch of the HAMAS terror organization, itself an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. The Imam featured in the series, Husham Al- Husainy, who marries Jeff, the Catholic who converted to Islam, and Shadia Amen was actually featured on Sean Hannity's program on Fox News back in 2007. Al-Husainy is a radical Muslim who refused to answer Hannity's questions regarding Hisballah and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and instead went on an angry ranting spree. |
| Posted by: Slatle Bumble5851 2011-12-12 08:56 |
| #3 Given how California is hardly welcoming to corporations and job creation these days, how could Lowe's tell the difference between governmental 'business as usual' and punishment? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-12-12 08:39 |
| #2 Lowe's acted very diplomatically in their response to Lieu's threats. However, they should quietly send someone around to the local pols in his 28th district, suggesting that the about 6-8 Lowe's in that district might be relocated outside of that district, because of Lieu's "anti-business attitude." And since Lowe's has 110 stores in California, those 6-8 stores, and their employees, would be "redundant", so there would be about 5,000 more new unemployed people, who might infer that Lieu was the one who got them fired. And maybe the local pols as well, if they were unable to convince Lieu of the error of his ways. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-12-12 08:30 |
| #1 Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, told The Associated Press he would also consider legislative action if Lowe's doesn't apologize to Muslims and reinstate its ads. Discovery!!! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-12-12 08:26 |