If you're as offended as I am, feel free to copy (or change) the letter below and send it to everyone on your email list. I composed this letter with some help from Warrior-Mentor's Happy Thanksgiving thread and a phrase from Kyobanim. I hope you gentlemen don't mind my use of your words & ideas.
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Best Buy wishes Americans a "Happy Eid al-Adha" during Thanksgiving week; fails to mention our own National Holiday.
Take a look at Best Buy's Sunday, November 22, 2009 advertisement circular inviting Americans to shop the electronic retailer's pre-Thanksgiving Day sales. In the lower left-hand corner of the advertisement’s front page is this chirpy little wish: Happy Eid al-Adha. Conspicuously missing is any mention of our National Holiday unless this directive counts: Shop Thanksgiving Day at Bestbuy dot com.
What is Eid al-Adha? It's a Muslim holiday. Best Buy wants to wish someone (certainly not patriotic Americans) a happy terrorist-oriented Islamic holiday.
Thanksgiving Day, in President George Washington's words, is a day to give thanks for: the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; For the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed...
Americans have a much to be thankful for, a great deal of which is in direct conflict with the Islamic beliefs. Take a good look at the words of George Washington again and then ask Best Buy why it wants us to celebrate a holiday from a culture directly opposed to the civil and religious liberty we cherish?
Boycott Best Buy and take your business to a company that is Proud to be American.
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