Buy a legit copy, will you?
Drug dealing and now film piracy -- no criminal activity is off limits to the jihadists. "Islamic militants may be behind film piracy: Philippines official," from AFP, May 21 (thanks to Twostellas):
MANILA - Al-QAEDA linked Islamic militants are suspected of rampant intellectual piracy in the Philippines, particularly of Hollywood films, to raise funds, a senior media industry official said on Wednesday.The Abu Sayyaf, blamed for the worst terrorist attacks in the Southeast Asian country, were likely behind the illegal copying of movies onto DVDS, which are then peddled at Manila shops by migrant Muslim traders, Optical Media Board chairman Edu Manzano said.
The government agency has been cracking down on the trade, but he said in an interview over ABS-CBN television that this has not stemmed the tide of counterfeits.
Mr Manzano said many armed groups around the world traffic in counterfeits to raise funds, and the Abu Sayyaf would be no exception.
'In the same way that the Yakuza (crime gangs) are behind them in Japan and the Hezbollah are involved in (counterfeiting) the Middle East, they are suspected of this,' he said, referring to Abu Sayyaf.
Although the government lacked 'documentary evidence' linking the Abu Sayyaf to the trade, he said recent government raids on suspected intellectual pirates in Manila's Muslim communities have turned up counterfeit DVDs and fake luxury goods packaged with illegal drugs, grenades and even mercury....
All Muslim owned and operated businesses must be boycotted because they fund terrorism and encourage more Muslim immigration. I would not even deal with a Muslim salesman or cashier at a department store. Thanks to the fact that most clothing in many department stores is made in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia I forces to make wardrobe decision on non-Muslim non-Chinese origin which is quite difficult. Sears and Macy's are the worst.
Ethan Allen, the furniture giant is run by a Muslim whose son died fighting with Al-Qeda. He imposts much of his inventory from Muslim countries.
Muslims own tons of gas stations, restaurants, Shesha cafes, food stands, convenient stores , real estate, used car lots. They also fund terrorism via smuggling cigarettes, narcotics, bootlegged items. Also, Muslims account for a considerable portion of identity theft and other cyber crime.
Please do your best not to support terrorism and Islamic terrorism. look at labels and you can live without a kebab stick.
Just following the way of the "prophet" MooHAMtheMUD. Looting, robbing, killing, murder, rape, and pillage from other cultures. There is nothing they can do as far as generating money. The only way the know is what has been set down as an example of the so called perfect man mohammed. Islam generates money by stealing and robbing. That is what it has done for the past 1400 years.
'crime pays'
That is why Islam should fall under 'organized crime/racketeering' investigation.
have_mercy:
That is exactly what I do. I do not buy goods from any UMMAH countries as far as I can help it. Unfortunately gas is something I do not have a choice right now. But food, clothes etc I look at the labels, and restaurants avoid any Islamic or Pakistani establishments do not want to end up eating human excrements or poisoned by the Mohmendenbots.
There is no (slum)lord but allah, and mohammed is his manager. allah is by far the biggest slum lord in galactic history, ruling the global public housing project known as the ummah. They got it all going down over at ummah gardens. Rape, robbery, murder, sexual perversion, so why not video piracy? Huh b*tch!
Islam and it's organized crime 'Boss', Mohammad, wouldn't have it any other way. Following his example is key to being a TRUE Muslim, afterall. Film pirating is also allah approved; so this demonic-duo must be very pleased. Keep up the evil work, Mohammadeans, as hell will burn brighter for your lot.
It's not just Macy's, have_mercy. The catalog stores used to make their own clothing in the US but have closed their factories and now almost everything they sell is made in China or Malaysia. I generally don't see much from any of the other countries you listed. China isn't Muslim but it's still a pirate. American businesses can whine all they want about Chinese piracy, they'll get no sympathy from me.
How many of the companies losing money from Islamic piracy saw it skyrocket AFTER they moved their operations out of the US and into those very countries or into neighboring countries?
Now if I see "made in Taiwan" on a label then I'm willing to buy it.
Islamist terror gangs - organised crime in the guise of religion...
Who knew?
"Drug dealing and now film piracy"
"recent government raids on suspected intellectual pirates in Manila's Muslim communities have turned up counterfeit DVDs and fake luxury goods packaged with illegal drugs, grenades and even mercury...."
-- from the article above
In short, every kind of illicit activity is engaged in. Don't forget the gang of Arab cigarette smugglers operating out of North Carolina who made millions for Hezbollah, or was it Hamas (I forget), until finally rounded up.
None of this should surprise. Crime committed by Muslims living in Infidel lands can be considered lawful; it is a kind of Jihad. It is permissible to break Infidel laws, to steal from Infidels, to rape "their" women if it is being done in the right, Islamic spirit. The women have it coming to them, for the disgraceful way they dress. The Infidel property should be handed over to Muslims as Jizyah, but since there is no payment of the Jizyah Muslims can decide to help themselves without waiting for Muslim rule that may be an annoyingly long time in coming.
Why should not
'Religion of Thieves'? 'Religion of the Lie'?
Anyone who has not yet done so: read M Scott Peck's 'People of the Lie'. He argues that one of the identifying marks of a truly evil person or group is ...lying, falsehood, self-deception and deception of others, confusion. (He also associates inveterate evil with murder, not simply physical murder but the desire and attempt to annihilate others spiritually/ emotionally/ psychologically).
The other book worth reading is Dorothy L Sayers' popular, accessible, quickly readable, and usefully annotated English translation of Dante's Inferno. Read it as a psychology of evil: an exposition in figural, concrete terms, of the relentless process of disintegration which devours the soul, and the city, when 'the good of the intellect'/ 'the intellectual good', 'il ben dell'intelletto', is lost. Note well Dante's observation that the damned souls blame everything except themselves (i.e. denial of responsibility).
(Charles Williams' thoughts on the meaning of the Inferno, in his book 'The Figure of Beatrice', are also very helpful).
Neither Peck nor Dante is focussing on Islam at all, though Dante, notoriously, and with deadly accuracy, placed Mohammed and Ali among the Sowers of Discord, in the Circle of the Maliciously Fraudulent.
Dante and Peck are, in the usual ruthless 'western' manner, occupied with unmasking and anatomizing, so as to try to cure, the deceptions and self-betrayals of humanity in general, as manifested in our own lives and our own societies. Dante excoriates Florence and the papacy; Peck was horrified by the My Lai massacre, for he was one of the psychologists who had to investigate it.
But when I reflect on those two very different books, ancient and modern, it is frightening how precisely their analyses illuminate the multiple pathologies of the ummah, and in particular, the practices and mindset of those who are setting out to wage jihad and enforce sharia.
I agree, we need to boycott known business that are Muslim owned. Within the law, we can make it that they do not want to come here.
exactly the same way the paramilitary organisations funded (and some still do) themselves in Northern Ireland - this is a popular method of funding for terrorists so don't buy pirated dvds/videos/music cds/software please - you're indirectly supporting them
mck
Check out too "your local hospital", by whom it is owned. The owner came in the early evening to my room, stating "what are you doing in MY hospital".
There is a dispute going on between the hospital and my 2 medical insurances.
I will never set a foot in that hospital again.