Nov 26
Happy Eid Al-Adha
Happy Thanksgiving!
Christmas music has been playing in stores and on the radio for weeks, and if you haven’t already, you’ll soon be bombarded with Christmas advertising. It is how things work - big companies try to appeal to their consumers in order to get them to make purchases.
However, some people think that one company went too far in its latest ad - Best Buy ran an ad wishing people a Happy Thanksgiving and Eid Al Adha, which is a Muslim celebration that is also taking place this week. I’m not sure what is offensive about acknowledging the existence of other religions in our great country (which was, by the way, founded on the idea of freedom of religion), but one commenter has a big problem with it:
Among my major purchases from BB over the years were a plasma big screen, a fridge and a laptop. No more. In 2006 you discontinued the use of ‘ Merry Christmas’ in your “holiday” messages.
Yet one of your ad inserts wishes your customers a happy “Eid Al Aldha” ( a Muslim goat throat slitting festivity) . Clearly the liberal/ PC culture in your corporate offices is biased against Christians and traditional American values. So, in 2009 I discontinue Best Buy. Good riddance.
Hello A m a z o n
- A proud patriotic Christian American.
Honestly, the amount of knowledge i possess about Eid Al Adha is very little. The animal sacrifice sounds awful, if that’s true. But is it any worse than the Christian traditions celebrating the birth of a human sacrifice, symbolically eating human flesh and drinking human blood?
Just sayin’.