Saturday, January 13, 2007

Wal-Mart Stands Up To CAIR

This is why I am a Wal-Mart Apologist:


Wal-Mart may be the first corporation to not cave in to Muslim offense-taking and demand-making. The retailer is continuing to sell the “Left Behind: Eternal Forces” video game despite CAIR’s complaints — rather than pull the product and put employees through sensitivity training like every other company has done so far when confronted with even a single complaint by a Muslim.

Nike was one company that went the sensitivity-training route when the script logo on some of its styles was accused of resembling the word “Allah” in Arabic. The employees undergoing Muslim sensitivity training were last seen praying toward Mecca five times a day, and several were crushed in the annual Hajj.

According to CNS News, CAIR says the game, based on the Christian book series Left Behind, “glorifies religious violence,” and as everyone knows, only Islamic leaders and imams are allowed to glorify religious violence.

CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad wrote a letter to Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott saying, “In the post 9-11 climate, when improving interfaith relations should be a priority for all, this type of product only serves to dehumanize others and increase interfaith hostility and mistrust.”

Translation: Fighting back against Islamic hostility increases hostility. We thought we could trust you to just grin and bear ours.

Also among Awad’s objections was that “the game’s enemy team includes people with Muslim-sounding names.” What should the names sound like? Shlomo Levy? Everything but Muslim?
CAIR, which received complaints about the game, “charged that players are rewarded for either converting or killing people of other faiths,” and demanded, “Why are you stealing our ideas?! We have a copyright on that stuff!”


Actually, the game “calls for people to join the Tribulation Force rather than die at the hands of the anti-Christ. ‘You’re trying to save other people from that and ultimate judgment by God,’” according to Jeff Frichner, president of Left Behind Games.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

If the company one works for pulls this "sensitivity training" stunt (and mine is at risk, as are many), is it better to resist or resign?

Btw, if things come to the pass I fear they will some time in the not so distant future, we had damn well better learn to "dehumanize" the enemy as much as is humanly possible. It's called keeping context: they are trying to kill you and your children so you need to kill them first, and you have no business worrying about how this makes their kiddies and gray-haired grannies feel.

Heathen as you all know me to be, could someone give me a quick rundown on what the role of Christians is supposed to be in the "Tribulations" et al? I'm not being impertinent, I just want to get my answers straight when some fool I'm arguing with starts running on about the "Religious Right" preparing for Armageddon. As I understand it, you are supposed to continue to fight evil and let God handle the grand strategy, is that close enough?

Captain USpace said...

Good for Walmart, it's about time, I hope they don't change their mind and cave in, and I hope some other wimpy corporations have the courage to have faith in their company's products/services and the majority of their customers.


absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
SHOP AT WALMART
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