Boycott the Dutch Beer Amstel and Heineken, Drink Bud Light!
To begin with, I’m totally against anything that is offensive to religions, values and cultures, and by that I’m totally against the Danish cartoons about the prophet (PBUH) and the Dutch movie about Islam. I support reasonable freedom of speech, but if it’s going to offend others, then it’s rudeness and pointless.
Muslims raged against the movie and cartoons, in other words: kill us, destroy us, steal our fortunes, humiliate us in anyway you like, but don’t publish a movie or some cartoons, we are a sensitive nation.
What frustrates me the most is the stupid reaction towards such issues, yes let’s boycott their products for a while, then let’s go back to using it, then let’s boycott it again and again each time they offend our religion, yea right, good plan. Isn’t this motivating enough to have our own products, how difficult is it to raise few cows and produce a decent butter?
I wonder how is our life going to be if the whole world decided to criticize Islam; no cars, no mobiles, computers, internet, clothes, even praying stuff, no food… etc. I guess we will be riding camels and sending pigeons for SMS.
Now a group on facebook is promoting boycotting the Dutch products, the list includes beer, which is forbidden in Islam, yea I will espouse Islam and the Prophet through drinking Bud Light instead of Amstel and Heineken.
This is chaos, who’s behind this whole buzz? Some people believe that the “let’s boycott Dutch products” campaign were so effective even before it starts; this TV presenter Amr Adib said that this campaign stopped the offensive Dutch movies, I wonder why boycotting Danish products didn’t prevent the European media of republishing those cartoons, over and over, and over.
A friend of mine who lives in Europe told me that the Danish cartoons are being published yearly since 1998.
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on April 20, 2008 at 10:55 pm Anonymously Anonymous wrote:
You do realize that your post is one huge paradox?
on April 20, 2008 at 11:33 pm Hani Obaid wrote:
I saw the clip of Amr Adib’s video. I think he exaggerated the effectiveness of a 15 day boycott. He emphasized the comment from one dutch person who said they would sue the Parliamentarian behind the movie if they lost any money because of the boycott.
What I liked most about your post is that you saw the bigger picture. A boycott because of a cartoon, but next to nothing for actually invading a muslim country.
Did you hear the old joke about the guy who dropped his keys in the dark alley? He went to look for them in the well-lit street because it will be easier to find them there!
About the Beer, Amr was actually asking Christians to join in on the boycott. He mentioned that people would have the same reaction if someone made a cartoon about Christ. I don’t think this is true, and in any case there are plenty of cartoons and inappropriate depictions of Christ/crosses/crucifixions. The west doesn’t seem to be as easily offended about this type of thing.
I think the more offended Muslims are, the more they give that dutch parliamentarian exactly what he wanted.
on April 21, 2008 at 6:36 am Moey wrote:
Not our local Amstel. neither Heineken. this whole boycott thing is insane, we’re making a big deal out of nothing, Indians, Iranis drew the prophet before, even in art history books, check the islamic chapter. not a big deal seriously, I don’t have to quit things I like because they’re danish.
LEGO is danish, Jack&Jones is danish, Vero Moda is danish. SO WHAT? the main brand is not getting fucked by us not buying off them, the local dealer is getting kinky sex from his wife.
on April 22, 2008 at 2:03 am John Coutu wrote:
I agree with Moey here and ‘Anonymously Anonymous’. By boycotting Danish product you are mainly affecting the dealer and the company, but why should the company be penalized for the wrongdoings of its base nation. This would be the same as boycotting all Arab products because Osama bin laden is Arab. Boycotting Danish products is imprudent and unjustifiable as Danish people and companies should not be punished for the actions of some individuals.
on April 22, 2008 at 2:10 am John Coutu wrote:
I also forgot to mention, I think Christians are offended when Jesus Christ is made fun of and mocked in popular media, however, the issue here is that a lot of Christians are only born Christian and are actually atheists, while real Christians are underrepresented.