04-15-2006, 07:24 PM
Bismillah
Thanku for responding, and we appreciate your input Mahas and concern, and I would like to tell u that we do not hate jews or christians or any1, on the contrary, in Islam we are ordered not to hate any1 and to live peacefully with every ethnic society as long as there is no war between us, and if u make a bit of history research, u will know that muslims jews and christians lived all together in peace in jerusalem, until the war against arab countries started, and the zionists started their so called claim of the holy land, and also if there is war, we do not hate, we fight for our rights without hate or revenge. Israel was implanted in our arabic and muslim land, it is considered an enemy, not all jews who are living in palestine are enemies, arab jews are not well treated by israel as europeans and american jews, even the flasha are not very well treated, and every1 knows this.
Now that organization that starbucks donates to as u made the research was built in jerusalim:
Aish HaTorah ("Fire [of] the Torah") is an Orthodox Jewish outreach organization and yeshiva. With its headquarters in the Old City of Jerusalem, where<b> the government of Israel awarded it a coveted piece of land — forty percent of the frontage facing the Western Wall,</b> it has branches in most cities around the world with large populations of Jewish people.
In Jerusalem, the Aish HaTorah yeshiva offers full-time, intensive study programs for college and university age young Jewish men of all backgrounds and levels of knowledge. Areas of study include Hebrew Bible, Talmud, history, philosophy and Hebrew ulpan.
The rabbinical ordination program combines classical Talmudic training with intensive instruction in outreach and leadership skills. Over 200 men have graduated from its rabbinic program, assuming leadership roles in many Jewish communities around the world.
As we see the underlined and bold, it is clear where it is situated, that is one strong reason that will make me insist on boycotting, and also the rabbinical ordination program in leadership, well yes leaders like sharon and others. So this is one reason that will make me insist on boycott.
Now second, I really did not understand the second point about the war in Iraq. But I remember i saw a picture of american soldiers with starbucks stand as an aid to soldiers there. i cant find it now :scratch: .
Third, I never knew anything about starbucks aiding gays, thanku for letting us know, this will be a stronger reason also to boycott it :)
Last I have one question for u, do u beleive that Israel has the right to exist, stealing arab and muslim lands, if u do, then I will not respond any more to this thread, and if u do i would like to tell u that there are jews who refuse the existance of israel,
Traditional Jews Are Not Zionists
Although there are those who refuse to accept the teachings of our Rabbis and will continue to support the Zionist state, there are also many who are totally unaware of the history of Zionism and its contradiction to the beliefs of Torah-True Jews.
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/
http://www.nkusa.org/
http://www.jewsnotzionists.org/differencejudzion.html
I hope u got my point, we hate no one, but others hate us thanks to Israel and the new american conservatives(who are now losing their popularity), we do not blame every single jew for what is happening in Israel, nor do we blame every single american for the so called democratic war against muslim countries. Alhamdulilah we did enough research from our part from a long time, I hope u do your research also and try digging the truth. You must know that if there is peace and our stolen land is back then we will have no problem in dealing with anyone or buying from anyone. But if we are in the state of war, we do not buy or aid any one who helps the state of Israel.
Peace