Jack Kemp

This is, for now, only in Malaysia. Starbucks is owned by a Jew who is the son of a U.S. military veteran. And Starbucks has pledged to give 10,000 jobs to U.S. military veterans. To me, this looks like three reasons why Muslims would boycott Starbucks. Three bad reasons. Oh, yes. And Starbucks might not cater beheadings.

And it looks like a crack in the hard left-Muslim alliance.

http://theresurgent.com/muslims-are-boycotting-starbucks-over-the-companys-pro-lgbt-stance/
Muslims Are Boycotting Starbucks Over The Company’s Pro-LGBT Stance
By Jason Hopkins | July 7, 2017, 11:15pm | @thejasonhopkins


Let’s laugh a little.
Parkasa, a hard-line Muslim group in Malaysia that touts around 700,000 members, is joining another Muslim group in Indonesia, Muhammadiyah, in calling for the boycott of Starbucks.

Almost 30 million people belong to Muhammadiyah, the second-largest mainstream Muslim organization in Indonesia. They have denounced the popular coffee chain over the company’s former chief executive’s past praise for the gay community. Both organizations want Starbucks’ operating license to be revoked because the stance goes against Islamic teachings.

"Our objection is because they are promoting something that is against the human instinct, against human behavior and against religion. That’s why we are against it,” Amini Amir Abdullah, head of Perkasa’s Islamic affairs bureau, stated to Reuters in an interview earlier this week. Homosexuality goes against the country’s constitution.

Sodomy (including homosexual sex) is illegal in Malaysia, and committing gay acts can land you up to 20 years in prison. While homosexuality is still legal in Indonesia, a case moving forward in the Constitutional Court is looking to criminalize gay sex.
Oddly enough, calls for a boycott come in response to an old video of Howard Schultz defending LGBT causes in a shareholders meeting. The video, released in 2013, shows Schultz responding to a shareholder who was complaining over lost business because of the company’s support for gay marriage. The recording has been re-circulating online and has caused the ire of conservative Muslims in Indonesia and Malaysia. Shares of the company that operates Starbucks in Indonesia fell drastically this week.

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