Saturday, March 21, 2009

Kristallnacht will begin at Starbucks - And it will be soon


I think Vlad hits the nail on the head here.

From Vlad Tepes Blog:

Readers of Vlad will know we follow two threads especially. Artists and Islam and for very important reasons, not the least of which, is that artists like gay groups which are famously liberal (as are we at Vlad) have somehow been conned into joining the most illiberal forces on earth today masquerading as human rights groups or ‘peace’ groups. This tactic is what destroyed an otherwise pretty decent Iran. And the Jihad against starbucks. Initially it was a kind of curiosity to us. How the left and militant Islam had joined forces to try and destroy Starbucks. We have seen Starbucks locations destroyed in Europe during pro Hamas demonstrations and various locations of Starbucks in Canada and elsewhere have had peculiar protests and memo’s from head office. Muslims with a motive of pure anti semitism have managed to co-opt students leftists and basically anyone stupid or uneducated enough to wear a Che T shirt, to attack Starbucks for the ‘anti corporate’ agenda so fashionable with kids who do not have to pay their own bills. Kristallnacht will happen again, it will happen soon, and it will start at Starbucks.

Now we have this in Lebanon…

From The Lebanon Daily Star Beirut:

Activists protest against Starbucks, drive off customers
By Marc Abizeid 
Special to The Daily Star
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Activists protest against Starbucks, drive off customers

BEIRUT: About 25 young activists belonging to the Union of Lebanese Democratic Youth (ULDY) demonstrated outside a Beirut Starbucks Monday evening to protest the Seattle-based coffee shop’s ties to Israel. Members handed out leaflets and shouted slogans outside the store, catching the attention of passers-by and virtually ending all traffic heading in for a drink. A handful of police officers guarded the entrance of the store while two army trucks unloaded about a dozen soldiers across the street in anticipation of violence.

“It’s not just Starbucks that we’re demonstrating against,” 25-year-old ULDY member Hassan Zeitouny said. “It’s a demonstration against all that send aid to Israel, especially those that give money to Israelis to return back to Israel.”

ULDY - a leftist organization with ties to the Lebanese Communist Party - organized a similar demonstration outside the Hamra Starbucks during Israel’s devastating 22-day assault on Gaza in January. The group is also active in the larger campaign to boycott other American products and companies which it accuses of supporting Israel such as CocaCola and Phillip Morris.

The activists held signs up to the cafe’s windows with one displaying a drawing of a Starbucks’ cup overflowing with blood while another carried a mock-menu offering “coffee to kill my family,” and “espresso to knock down my house.”

Cheers were sung as each customer left the shop. After the last customers exited quietly, the cafe was left empty except for a few discouraged-looking employees sitting around a table drinking their own product.

“It’s good that people are leaving. I think they understood something - they understood this shop here is against Lebanon,” Zeitouni said. “Some citizens don’t know that Starbucks gives money to Israel while others know but don’t want to understand how much this flies in the face of what we stand for.”

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The brainless moonbats now have a target.

Lebanon was a long time ago a Christian majority country. That "long time ago" was 2006 but since Israel is not involved anymore and no war crimes are reported by the BBC, then nobody cares. It won't be politically correct to show any display of care-ness, would it?

Bring on the queen Esther and Starbucks. Lame.

kevin said...

The left has been at war with starbucks for a long time. You see the "friends don't let friend go to satrbucks" stickers on their cars and at the same time coffee places. No matter how PC/fair trade starbucks is, they are still sneered at as an enemy to progressives. I'm beginning to wonder if this isn't what's really behind it.

Anonymous said...

It started with Qaradawi, who initiated the rumor, or at least spread it far and wide.

Starbucks puts their eployees through college. They literally pay all in-state tuition. They also give them excellent benefits. When I waited tables I knoew lots of servers and bartenders who worked at Starbucks just for the benefits.

Pastorius said...

I live in an area where there are a lot of Muslims. Until around September of this year, there would always be a lot of Muslim men sitting in Starbucks drinking coffee and talking.

I have not seen any since September (or so).

When did Qaradawi start this rumor?