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Middle East
Clerics back boycott of US products
2002-04-20
  • Some 5,000 protesters at the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp on Friday staged a sit-in calling for the boycott of US products, as Muslim preachers backed the move in their sermons. Demonstrators at the Sidon-area camp held posters with pictures of US products and banners reading: "Our brothers are killed with our money," and "Don’t buy your happiness with the blood of your brothers."
    Yup. Sounds like a "telling blow against American Imperialism," as the Chinese used to describe such things...
    Protesters also set fire to a few token US products, including cans and bottles of Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola, cartons of cigarettes, boxes of detergents, and cans of Pringles chips.
    Oh, Cheeze. Now they're gonna be overrun by antiglobos, oozing solidarity...
    The sermons of Muslim preachers in Sidon and the Ain al-Hilweh and Mieh Mieh camps called for a total boycott until the US economy is ruined. Volunteers distributed the printed version of a fatwa, or religious edict, issued by Muslim scholar Youssef Qardawi in the streets and shops outside mosques.
    Ouch! My economy! It's ruined because Lebanese won't buy any more Pringles!
    According to the fatwa, "every riyal, dirham or penny with which we buy their products turns into a bullet in the chests of our brothers and sons in Palestine."
    Yeah? Well, in return we're gonna boycott Lebanese exports, like... ummmm... well...
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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