Send your Staples or Office Depot receipts to Office Max, and tell them why

by Bill Levinson

OfficeMax Drops Michael Savage Ads Over Anti-Islam Bias

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today announced that OfficeMax, a leading office products retailer, has joined a growing list of companies that have stopped advertising on Michael Savage’s nationally-syndicated radio program because of the host’s anti-Muslim views.

Send your Staples or Office Depot receipts to the following address and tell them why.

CONTACT:
Mr. Sam K. Duncan
Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer Office Max
263 Shuman Boulevard
Naperville, IL 60563
Tel: 630-438-7800
Fax: 630-864-4524
E-Mail: samduncan “at” officemax.com
investor “at” OfficeMax.com

See also the JihadChat entry on this.

We already called the number above and left a message for Mr. Duncan to the effect that we will now be buying all our office supplies from Staples or Office Depot if possible. Now we will look at CAIR itself, and we do not think decent people will like what they see. To begin with, there are credible allegations that CAIR gives at least “soft” support to actual terrorists.

Is this what Office Max is supporting?

CAIR Head Refuses to Denounce Terrorists
By Rachel Neuwirth
ChronWatch | Wednesday, August 20, 2003

In late July, I contacted Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman and director of communication at the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). When he returned my call, he presented his point of view about the Arab-Israeli conflict and militant Islam. When I reminded him about CAIR’s record of openly supporting Hamas, Hizbullah, and other organizations deemed by the government to be terrorists, he replied by telling me that “CAIR does not support these groups publicly.”

But Hooper must have realized that he had said too much: he lost his composure and I suddenly found myself listening to a dial tone!

…This led me to research CAIR further.

CAIR was founded in 1994 by two former officials of the Islamic Association for Palestine, a group that former FBI counter terrorism chief Oliver Revell acknowledged was formed as a front for the Palestinian Arab terrorist group, Hamas. One of CAIR’s official founders and its executive director, Nihad Awad, openly expressed support for Hamas, Hizbullah, and numerous other Arab/Islamic terrorist organizations.

Mr. Hooper has defended Saudi financial support of Palestinian suicide bombers. In spite of this, much of America’s present political establishment embraces CAIR as a legitimate, mainstream, Muslim-American organization.

CAIR on Pew Poll: Support for Al Qaeda Nothing to Worry About adds a YouTube video in which Ibrahim Hooper speaks for himself. Listen to Ibrahim Hooper downplay domestic “Islamic” support for terrorism (e.g. because Black Muslims feel “alienated” from society, or because of “wishful thinking” that Arabs didn’t perpetrate 9/11) instead of denouncing these behavioral choices. Ibrahim Hooper is not doing the Muslim-American community any favors by downplaying and whitewashing the disloyalty to the United States (according to the Pew poll) of a substantial, although not majority, proportion of Muslims in the United States.

300,000 U.S. Muslims Back Suicide Bombing by Robert Spencer adds,

Similarly, Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American Islamic Relations told MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson, “I don’t see a rise of religious extremism in the Muslim community….If you look at the totality of the survey results, the views of American Muslims more or less mirror the views of people of all faiths of America.” He did not cite, however, any evidence for this mirroring — any survey, for example, of Christians or Jews indicating any significant percentages of support for, say, the Ku Klux Klan, or abortion clinic bombers. Terrorism expert Steven Emerson, meanwhile, confronted Edina Lekovic of the Muslim Public Affairs Council on CNBC’s Lawrence Kudlow show, reading an editorial in praise of Osama bin Laden published in the UCLA Muslim Students Association’s newspaper in 1999, while she was editor of the paper. Lekovic denied having been the editor of the paper at that time, but Emerson has made available a pdf of the paper’s masthead that lists her as editor. Kudlow had asked Lekovic what Muslims in America were doing to combat the jihadist views expressed by some in the poll, and she stated that they were doing a great deal, but offered no specifics — and the incident with Emerson damaged her credibility. In fact, neither the CAIR nor the MPAC website contains any announcement about any program or initiative of any kind designed to lessen support for suicide bombing and Al-Qaeda within the Muslim community in America.

See also “CAIR: Blame the JEW Again” to learn more about Office Max’s friends.

Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR spokesman, had this to say about the conference:

“Unless the Israelis are serious about promoting justice for the Palestinian people and about freedom from occupation, I don’t see much coming out of the conference”

Of course Hooper doesn’t see much coming from the conference. CAIR’s greatest wish, in our opinion, is for every Jew, world-wide, to commit suicide and thus save radical Islam’s “Holy Warriors” the trouble of hunting them down and slaughtering them.

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Related: War Against Islamo-fascism

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