Best Buy supporting Hamas?

Best Buy Affirms Support for Hamas front group

Posted on April 25, 2012 by creeping

via Best Buy Doubles Down — For Now :: Islamist Watch.

Yesterday’s Islamist Watch article (below) documenting Best Buy’s financial support for the Hamas-linked Islamist group CAIR continues to make waves. The article has been re-posted across the internet and over 1,650 people have “liked” it on Facebook.

In response to a crush of emails and a deluge of criticism on their own Facebook page, Best Buy issued the following Facebook statement:

Best Buy’s customers and employees around the world represent a variety of faiths and denominations. We respect that diversity, and choose to engage with our customers, employees and communities in ways that reflect their traditions and maintain good relationships for Best Buy.

They “respect that diversity” by financing a group tied to Hamas and pledged to turning America into a Sharia-compliant, Islamic state? They choose to “engage” their customers in ways that reflect “their traditions?” What traditions? Subverting democracy, women’s rights and religious pluralism? Launching rockets into Israel? Honor killings of young women?

Islamist Watch has uncovered internal Best Buy email addresses for two important executives:

Susan Busch, Director of Public Relations: susan.busch@bestbuy.com. Lisa Hawks, Deputy Director of Public Relations: lisa.hawks@bestbuy.com

Keep the pressure on … Spread the word on Facebook and Twitter … Stay tuned

Thanks to Creeping Sharia readers here and on Twitter – most read story last week – for getting this out there. Share with your friends and family, neighbors, and elected officials. If you don’t speak now your kids will wonder why you didn’t fight when you had the chance.

Previously.

Here are the details on CAIR: (below fold)

• CAIR-MN is the local branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

• CAIR was named an “unindicted co-conspirator” to fund the terrorist group Hamas in America’s most significant terror financing trial thatresulted in 108 guilty verdicts. Also, see here.

• The United States Government named CAIR as “individuals/entities who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee and/or its organizations.”

• In the course of the terror financing trial, a document emerged from the Muslim Brotherhood listing CAIR as one of the Brotherhood’s like-minded “organizations of our friends” sharing the common goal ofdismantling American institutions and turning the U.S. into a Muslim nation through stealth jihad.

• The FBI has “suspended all formal contacts between CAIR and the FBI,” and the FBI does “not view CAIR as an appropriate liaison partner.”

• President Barack Obama signed a law that cuts ties between the FBI and unindicted co-conspirators in terrorism cases, which includes CAIR.

• CAIR co-founder and long-time board member Omar Ahmad once told an enthusiastic crowd: “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”

• Current CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper was quoted as saying: “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. … But I’m not going to do anything violent to promote that. I’m going to do it through education.”

• Senator Charles Schumer (Democrat, New York) described CAIR in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing as an organization “which we know has ties to terrorism.” FDCH Political Transcripts, Sept. 10, 2003.

• Senator Barbara Boxer (Democrat, California) took the rare step ofrescinding an official award to a constituent upon learning that the individual was an official with a local branch of CAIR.

• CAIR’s Minnesota branch hampered a federal investigation into the disappearances of dozens of Twin Cities Somali men, by discouraging local Somalis from cooperating with the FBI. CAIR-MN is thought to be closely aligned with mosques that may have recruited the local Somalis to take up arms overseas in jihads.

• CAIR’s Minnesota branch branded two Minneapolis moderate Muslim activists as “anti-Muslim” for their participation in a seminar criticizing an Islamic terrorist group in Somalia. The terrorist group, Al-Shabaab, is an al-Qaida affiliate. Also, see here.

• The IRS stripped CAIR of its tax-exempt status after the group failed to file required annual reports detailing their revenues and expenses.

• CAIR has increasingly turned to foreign donors for operating revenue, including soliciting then Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi to help underwrite a program to distribute 1 million copies of the Koran to government officials and the general public in America.

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