Best Buy Ditches ‘Christmas’ But Celebrates Muslim Holiday in Fliers
Posted on November 25, 2009
-By Warner Todd Huston
Christmas. Who needs it? Not Best Buy, that’s for sure. After all, Best Buy is loathe to use that hateful word in its advertising. It’s so “religious” and tinged with racism, America, and tradition. It makes Best Buy shudder to think of using that foul word, Christmas. But, advertising for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha? Heck, why not? What could be more welcoming and tolerant?
And so, Best Buy has issued a Thanksgiving sales flyer wishing all good multi-cultural, Muslim loving Americans a happy Eid al-Adha this year.
Don’t you feel your heart warming already? Isn’t your PC bone tingling with happiness? And aren’t you secretly gleeful that those rotten, evil, reactionary, hatemongering Christians are getting theirs… even if Christians do make up about 75 percent of the United States?
Well, let’s give Best Buy a hand for its politically correct sales flier excising that horrid Christmas nonsense and being enlightened enough to help us all convert to the “Religion of Peace.”
Thanks be it to Allah and Best Buy for helping us forget little things like the Khobar Tower bombing, the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Towers, the attack on the U.S.S. Cole, 9/11, or that silly little incident with Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood. It was but a trifle, after all.
In this happy Eid al-Adha season we can thank Best Buy for its sacrifice, too. For its sacrifice of America to its enemies, for the sacrifice of our traditions, religious principles, and culture to an alien, hostile ideology. We can thank Best Buy for helping organizations like CAIR to spread its message of cultural jihad.
Yes, thanks Best Buy for showing us how to be better “Americans.”
Now go ye forward and shop, America. Happy Eid al-Adha to everyone. And don’t let PETA stop you from buying that goat. And don’t mind us, folks. We are just committing cultural suicide is all.
Update: Perspective via Dan Riehlu
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This is a tempest in a teacup. Best Buy may choose to celebrate Christmas in next week’s ad.
Christmas has become so over-commercialized that it has lost its true meaning. Even though I’m a Christian, I’ll still be shopping at Best Buy this year. They have great prices, knowledgable salespeople and a customer loyalty program this is the best in the business.
Where else am I going to shop, Wal-Mart? Yeah, right! Their sales staff is a bunch of redneck dropouts who know nothing about the products the store sells.
Just one example of what is wrong with the church these days….Christians who will not stand up for their beliefs. Sad.
I would be willing to bet that Jason is either a Best Buy employee or a paid blogger. His statements are ridiculous.
It is very so Christian to call Wal-Mart employees redneck dropouts.
Meanwhile, I have been in technology for over 40 years since I was 12 and I can tell you I have heard some really stupid things come out of the mouths of Best Buy employees from time to time. Do you homework on the net and buy somewhere else.
Actually, I know Jason, and he’s neither an employee or Worst Buy or a paid blogger, and it almost pains me to come to his defense since we so rarely ever agree on anything.
That being said, is there harm in recognizing many different holidays from different cultures? Yes, I do think it’s terribly stupid for people to complain about using the word Christmas in advertising.
We’re the last of six elementary schools in my school district to even have a “Holiday Concert” because one family at another school complains it’s forcing religion on people, never mind the fact the kids sing “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”, etc.
But I’m not going to get my underwear in a knot because Best Buy recognizes a Muslim holiday. Doing that’s just silly.
(And as an aside, if you wanted to enumerate all of the ways Christians have perpetrated evil in the name of their religion the list would be just as long as the one you provided for Muslims. Just saying…)
Screw Best Buy. They are officially off the shop here list.
Maurice,
Thanks (I think)
Here in SC in the Mauldin schools, they still have Christmas concerts. Sometimes they even throw in a Hannakuh song or a negro spiritual for good measure.
the author of this article is an absolute idiot. not all muslims are bad, islam is not our enemy. the radicals muslims who are our enemy are a minority. are all christians bad? we christians raped,killed,pillaged during the crusades?
the author of this article is everything and anything that is wrong with america today.
Louis, here’s a quarter, go buy yourself a sense of humor. Apparently you can’t recognize a joke when you see one.
It isn’t recognizing a muslim holiday that is offensive. It is refusing to recognize a Christian holiday and then recognizing a muslim holiday.
If we lived in a muslim country that would be expected, in fact you would be persecuted for not being muslim. So how is this happening in a Christian country?
You can whine all you want, rewrite history books and brainwash school children but it was founded by Christians on Christian ideals.
I am so tired of this Crusades crap that we get from liberal and muslims. The crusades were to take BACK land that the muslims had taken during their many wars against christianity. I hope you idiots get to live in a muslim sharia state, but not this one, and get to see just what it is like to be a non muslim, or a converted white person to islam, when you are not pure enough and have to be killed.
THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON CHRISTIAN/JUDAIC PRINCIPLES AND IT ALWAYS WILL BE THAT WAY! THANK GOD!
So how would you feel about adding Satanists, Santeria, Vodun, and Wiccans to Best Buys ads? Should Best Buy show the same “Religious tolerance” to these religions?
If you want to be all inclusive you have to be ALL inclusive. This is surely a slippery slope fueled by Political Correctness.
I’m a spiritual person.
Was raised Christian, but am currently unsure about the whole Christianity beliefs. I for-sure believe in God, though.
But yeah, the issue here is not the fact that Best Buy decided to respect and pay attention to a Muslim holiday, but the fact that it decided to do this while at the same time spitting in the face of the Christian holiday. It’s not ‘tolerance’ to STOP promoting one religion, and begin promoting another—- it’s policy change. In deciding to no longer use the ‘C’ word for these holidays, and plastering ‘Happy Eid al-Adha’ on the front pages of advertisements instead, it’s making a statement. They support Muslim religion over that of Christianity. Plain and simple.
If they were to be issuing multiple ads with some saying ‘Christmas’, and some saying ‘Eid al-Adha’, it’d be different. But they’re not. They’ve officially decided to stop circulating ads with anything referring to Christmas.
Woooow, the ‘C’ word is still on some GIFTCARDS! What an honor – they’ve decided not to discard the half-million or so unsold cards they had made from 3 or 4 years ago! That’s nothing.
Ok, that’s my opinion up above.
Now for the more sad, but all-to-real reason why I believe more and more companies are doing this.
Christians and Americans-in-general are no longer sticking up for their beliefs and no longer hold true to traditions. If they can save a buck here, they’ll shop here. If it insults they’re religion and beliefs to do so – oh well. They’ll laugh it off and/or half-heartedly try to justify their decision to do so with a friend for a quick moment, then completely forget about it as they plan their next materialistic purchase. Sad, but true, I think we as Americans have gotten lazy and indifferent about watching our heritage and traditions and moral fiber wash away, as our materialism and greed have taken the pilot’s seat in our daily lives.
Again, I’m spiritual, but not Christian. I just think it’s sad that the greedy and no-hearted big business owners in America have completely ignored the long-standing traditions of Christmas in America, just to make a buck. Then further, when they realized they could tap into a couple more niche markets in order to make a few more bucks, they go ahead and plaster those other religious holidays all over their ads, completely leaving behind Christmas – since nobody made a big enough fuss over it when they neutralized the holiday season a few years ago anyway.
Wake up people. Stand up for what you believe. Stand up for your moral and/or religious beliefs. What’s more important – $20 more in your pocket, or selling your soul to the devil (figuratively, or literally, depending on your beliefs)???
“Adding Satanists, Santeria, Vodun, and Wiccans to Best Buys ads?”
Now what demographic market would that be targeted at, please? roflmao…..
This ad would be ludicrously easy to edit on Photoshop. Just replace the wording on that one little bubble at the bottom. The author doesn’t mention where he got it. Have any of you actually held this ad in your hand?
See how easy it is to inspire bigotry?
Mary, even Snopes said that this is a true story. A little research on your part before you go calling people a liar is warranted.
Well, a little research (all on Snopes) reveals that it was three years ago that Best Buy said it wasn’t going to be using the term “Merry Christmas,” but this year says there will be references to Christmas, Eid, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, etc. So I think Warner wants you to do a little research, but not too much.
What I think is sad are all the people whose holidays are apparently ruined if other faiths are even acknowledged and every clerk doesn’t say “Merry Christmas.” Since when should people be looking to huge stores like Best Buy and Wal-Mart to guide them as to how they should celebrate Christmas?
I remember last year, a clerk neglected to say “Merry Christmas” to me. I hurried home, in a panic, and was quite relieved to see all our Christmas lights were still on and our Christmas tree was up. Close one!
I just came across this article while trying to find out about Muslim holidays in December so I could host a multi-faith based gift exchange at my office. Granted, it’s in December, close to Christmas so maybe it’s a little wierd…
It amazes me that so many strong Christians are upset about a for profit company advertising to make a commercial dollar. Why does it surprise you that they will exploit anything possible to make a buck? Don’t be fooled into thinking all those retailers that put Christmas Trees and snowmen on their ads are Christian. They also put Menorah & dreidels in there. These companies do not intend to support the values of any religion or they would more likely be telling you to forget about the new computers or sassy boots and that your TV’s and cell phones are good enough as is – that you should donate to food pantries and homeless shelters, to give to local churches to support mission trips and the less fortunate.
This country was founded on religious freedoms – provided your religion was based on Christian beliefs, right? That and commercial capitalism. With that we are forced to acknowledge religious & cultural freedoms, since almost all religions/cultures have retail shops that, when opperated above board, support our national economy. Of course you don’t have to shop at any retailer, either, that’s your ultimate consumer choice.
That being said, all religions have radical extremists and that “crazy gene” does not belong to any one group. It’s easy to point fingers to extremists from other countries and say they shouldn’t be allowed within our borders. How would all the well meaning southern baptists feel if we kicked them out of the country because of the bombings a select few of “their kind” are responsible for? Heck, southern baptists are Christians, too, so do all those national retailers support abortion-bombings because they advertise Christmas sales?
We live in a country that allows us to have these discussions, that allows us to pick and choose our enemies, even if we’re not always right, to support the good-guy and berate the bad-guy, to believe that good wins over bad, and to choose what “good” means to each of us in our hearts.
I wish you all a happy life and an opportunity to meet someone you never thought you’d meet, and learn about them, and maybe even like them. And I wish you and your new friend peace.
You totally missed the point, Nancy. I have no problem with a private company using Muslim holidays to sell a product. What I get upset about is that the same company wants to FORGET our own, Christian, American Christmas holiday at the same time. It is cultural suicide to forsake your OWN culture while playing up another one.
But, in your effort to assume you are more “tolerant” of people’s rights than everyone else, you also forgot something. We have a right NOT to go to Best Buy if we don’t like its advertising. No matter HOW they advertise, if we don’t like it we have the right not to go.
Best Buy does not deny this ad printed on the day after Thanksgiving (Nov 27th 2009). This date was also a Muslim holiday so they used it in their ad. They have numerous other ads with Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwanzaa, and Feliz Navidad. So will I stop shopping at Best Buy because this one ad did not mention all the religions, no. Read what they told the Detroit News at the link (http://www.snopes.com/politics/christmas/bestbuy2009.asp).
This slam is typical of those that choose to take something out of context. It can lead to misunderstandings.
Unless B.B. Is a christian business they are just keeping business and in business everybody’s money is green, we are still in America the land of the free ( in spirit and truth ). Jesus teaches, bless those that curse you and despitefully use you, feed, and pray for your enemy. I’ll go into Best Buy and shine the light of Jesus. Shout the praises from the mountain top. I own a CHRISTIAN barber shop and I tell everyone that go through those doors the love of Jesus. It’s probably not good for business in this world, but the Father’s business pays better in the long run.