Best Buy Black Friday 2009 sales ads and the ‘Religious Storm’
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No matter what you try to do sometimes to reach out and make people happy, you’re not going to please everyone. In this case, Best Buy’s Black Friday 2009 sales ads include something that may cause a ‘Religious Storm’.
If you look at the image of a Best Buy ad on Crunch Gear, you will see it invites the world to celebrate Thanksgiving and Eid Al-Adha. The latter being a Muslim festival of sacrifice.
Now at first this seems a good idea, reaching out to Muslims and Christians at the same time, but things are becoming a lot more complicated, according to Crunch gear. They report that comments are starting to flow about Best Buy’s Black Friday ad, which include Christians complaining about the lack of ‘Merry Christmas’’.
So is it ok to miss out ‘Merry Christmas’, and have happy ‘Eid Al-Adha’? Some readers are going as far to say they will not be shopping at Best Buy anymore, do you feel this strongly? Check out the above link, and let us know what you think.
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let’s get real. there will only be a religious storm because you’ve just highlighted it.
eid is in like 3 days. christmas is in…more than thirty days. as if best buy wasn’t going to inundate customers with christmas ‘deals.’
Yes, your right that it is in 3 days, but if im not mistaken, the bulk of black friday spending is for christmas, not some end of a pilgrimage. Best buy is spitting in the face of the consumer. And I for one have no intention in shopping there again…there are plenty of other outlets to shop at.
The problem lies in that you can’t say Merry Christmas (instead people say Happy Holidays) because not everyone is Christian. Best Buy would never print Merry Christmas anymore because it offends those who aren’t Christian, so now they print Happy Eid, but see, not everyone is Muslim so you will now offend those who aren’t Muslim. This country was founded on certain beliefs and those beliefs are dwindling every day thats what truly matters.