This is the same strategy that Islamic supremacists and their Leftist allies employ against counter-jihad speakers and writers: manufacture a controversy over their supposedly unacceptable opinions, such that people are afraid to have them speak or feature their work, for fear of accusations of “racism” and “bigotry.” They’re trying to rule resistance to jihad outside the bounds of acceptable discourse. Getting this costume taken off the market, while the keffiyeh remains, is all part of the same motion: only one point of view, only one set of political opinions, is now acceptable in the mainstream; all others are demonized and marginalized.
“Walmart Axes Pro-Israel Halloween Costume Under Pressure From Activist Groups,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, October 28, 2015:
Six-thousand people have joined a social media campaign opposing Walmart after it pulled a pro-Israel Halloween costume from its website following pressure from activists.
Walmart removed a children’s costume depicting an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldier from its website late on Thursday due to pressure from activists who deemed it “offensive” and “problematic.”
However, Walmart continues to sell a keffiyeh head wrap that often has been used a symbol of violence and resistance against the Jewish state.
The Israel Project, a pro-Israel organization based in Washington, D.C., responded by launching a social media blitz aimed at shaming Walmart and accusing it of not supporting the Jewish state as a result of its decision to pull the IDF costume.
The organization’s campaign, which accuses the retail giant of caving “to anti-Israel hate,” has attracted 6,000 signatures to a petition urging Walmart to continue selling the costume, according to information provided by the organization.
Walmart’s decision to remove the costume comes amid a surge in Palestinian terrorism that has killed several Israelis and wounded many more over the past several weeks. Pro-Palestinian activists have accused Israel of using too much force during the effort to protect civilians from the terrorist campaign.
“Israeli soldiers are heroes. They fight every day to protect innocents from terror,” the Israel Project wrote on its Facebook page. “But Walmart removed an Israeli army costume from their website. Why? They surrendered to a vicious hate campaign—a campaign to demonize Israel. If you support Israel, you must take action now.”
“Tell Walmart: Stand up against anti-Israel hate,” the petition states.
Walmart and other retailers have also removed a costume depicting an Arab individual with an exaggerated long nose.
Both that outfit and the IDF costume were removed after pro-Palestinian activists launched a pressure campaign online and elsewhere.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, an anti-Israel organization that has come under fire from human rights organizations, described the IDF outfit as “problematic” and claimed that the costume promotes “fear” and “violence.”
“The costumes are very problematic, and offensive to many people,” said Samer Khalaf, the committe’s [sic] president, in a statement. “The Israeli forces are responsible for the continued death and occupation of the Palestinian people. Such a symbol of fear, violence and a long history of dispossession should not be used for entertainment purposes.”
Omri Ceren, the group’s managing director, criticized Walmart for caving to pressure while continuing to sell other items that some might consider offensive.
“Palestinian and Arab terrorists have spent the last month stabbing Israelis and Americans in the streets,” Ceren said. “Walmart is choosing to feature terrorist costumes but deny Americans the ability to side with Israel. It’s disgraceful.”…
jihad3tracker says
TIME TO GET THOSE TYPING FINGERS FLYING ON THE KEYBOARD ! ! !
Go to the most direct path you can find for CORPORATE personnel. You might include some of the facts so abundantly available here at JW, and in other truth resources, about Islam’s commitment to the destruction of Israel.
AND DON’T FORGET TO MENTION THAT YOU WILL NEVER SHOP AT WALMART AGAIN !
Concerned Citizen says
I never shop at Walmart any way because I know first hand their bullying tactics with vendors selling to them and it makes me angry!
BOYCOTT WALMART!!!
Bamaguje says
Indeed boycott Walmart. Let’s see if Muslim customers and their Leftist enablers can sustain it.
particolor says
Can Your Government Bow Any Lower to the Barbarians ? !! And CAIR is for the ADVANCEMENT of ISLAM !! 🙁
Same as the Mob of Islamic Lying Barsted here in Australia ! 🙁
Jack says
They bow to the every wish from the small minorities in this country, when will they stop selling pork, I wont be surprised when they do, the Liberals that run Wall Mart today have nothing in common with Sam Walton’s Ideology. I have been disgusted with them for a long time, they move to an area and put up a super store and draw customers from several surrounding small towns offering low prices and fast and friendly service when they kill their competition this all changes completely. Question: Every post I make on this site I have to give all my information each and every time, is there a way besides paying a yearly fee to word press.
Mirren10 says
Yes. Register, then you can log in.
mortimer says
I saw an editorial cartoon in which the IDF soldier stood in front of children and the Pally terrorist knelt BEHIND a baby carriage.
That sums up Pally war crimes…the use of human shields. They should be prosecuted at the World Criminal Court.
Paul says
Some people walk around with the ultimate horror outfit representing
the genuine forces of darkness all year round, namely the burka :
ICH says
What the heck is wrong with the world.
Why are we caving in !!!
Linda says
What is wrong with you Walmart??? This is the United States not the Middle East!!! I am sick of these immigrants taking away our rights. Have immigrants from other countries moved here and dictated what we can and cannot do or wear? I think not Walmart! It’s high time our retailers stop allowing these people to have power over our rights as citizens. It is a halloween costume. Oh, and by the way, why do you sell terrorist keffiyehs? Perhaps Walmart could become a Middle East retailer when the rest of us refuse to shop at your stores.
Angemon says
Indeed.
miriamrove says
Problematic? I have a problem with Hijab. So should I call Walmarts? What a bunch of self concerning idiots. M
Jonno says
The IDF are government sanctioned thugs. I have no time for Islam, a foul medieval mindset, but Israel is just the other side of the same coin. Hatred and violence sanctioned by religion. Zionism belongs in the last century with Communism etc.
Standing at a checkpoint in Bethlehem watching Israeli youngsters in army uniform humiliate elderly Arab women was when I changed my mind about Israel.
They are as bad as each other.
Mirren10 says
”The IDF are government sanctioned thugs. I have no time for Islam, a foul medieval mindset, but Israel is just the other side of the same coin. Hatred and violence sanctioned by religion. Zionism belongs in the last century with Communism etc.”
Israel is ‘just the other side of the same coin’ ? So, where are all the Israelis strapping on bomb vests, and blowing up innocents ? Where are all the Israelis making TV programs showing little children lisping about stabbing, murdering muslims ? Where are the Israelis sneaking into muslim households and sawing off the heads of little babies ? Where are the Israelis kidnapping, blindfolding, and shooting in the head, muslim hikers ?
Israel exists. Get over it.
The IDF will defend Israel and its people. Get over it.
”Standing at a checkpoint in Bethlehem watching Israeli youngsters in army uniform humiliate elderly Arab women was when I changed my mind about Israel. ”
Yes, very ‘islamophobic’ of the IDF – after all, there have never been any female arab suicide murderers, have there ?
And of course, the IDF has **no right** to defend Israel from this, right ?
Wafa Idris, under Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, became the first Palestinian female suicide bomber on January 28, 2002 when she blew herself up on Jaffa Road in Central Jerusalem.[248]:221
On February 27, 2002, Darine Abu Aisha carried out a suicide bombing at the Maccabim checkpoint of the Israeli army near Jerusalem. On the same day, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the religious leader of the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas, issued a fatwa, or religious rule, that gave women permission to participate in suicide attacks, and stated that they would be rewarded in the afterlife.[245]:315
Ayat al-Akhras, the third and youngest Palestinian female suicide bomber (at age 18), killed herself and two Israeli civilians on March 29, 2002 by detonating explosives belted to her body in a supermarket. She had been trained by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a group linked to the armed branch of Fatah (Yasser Arafat’s party), more secular than Hamas. The killings gained widespread international attention due to Ayat’s age and gender and the fact that one of the victims was also a teenage girl.
Hamas deployed its first female suicide bomber, Reem Riyashi, on January 14, 2004. Al-Riyashi attacked Erez checkpoint, killing 7 people.[248]:171
”They are as bad as each other.”
This is just a witless attempt at moral equivalence.
Joseph says
Standing at a checkpoint in Bethlehem watching Israeli youngsters in army uniform humiliate elderly Arab women was when I changed my mind about Israel.
____________________________
Totality of circumstances.
Did you ask the Israeli soldiers for the whole story?
Were they threatening her with destruction, murder, pain and torture?
Did they threaten to wipe out all of Islam?
One question Jonno.
WHY O WHY when a Muslim threatens a Kaffir or actually does harm to someone people like you bend over backwards to give them a free pass. A free pass as to say that the Muslims are justified in their violence, murder, rape and destruction, BUT when the Jews do some heckling this is abhorrent and evil to you? Why can the Palestinians launch rockets, kill rape and torture Jews it is OK, but when Israel retaliates they(Jews) are the bad guys?
Jonno you REALLY need to examine your values and look at the total circumstances. The Arabs in that region are NOT persecuted, they brought it upon themselves. Look at it this way. If you torture and beat a dog and push him into a corner and that dog growls and bites his antagonizer, do you punish the animal even further? or do you chastise, fine and penalize the human that set the events in motion?
You obviously side with the sadistic human(Arabs). Stop giving the Arabs a free pass to do what they want. If you say that the Israelis started this whole mess then you should look up the real history of that region. Stop eating the BS that the media is feeding you, try thinking for yourself for a while. All you have to do is ask three questions, WHY, WHY, WHY.
voegelinian says
This is the same strategy that Islamic supremacists and their Leftist allies employ against counter-jihad speakers and writers: manufacture a controversy over their supposedly unacceptable opinions, such that people are afraid to have them speak or feature their work, for fear of accusations of “racism” and “bigotry.”
There it is again — for the 900,000th time; and still Angemon denies that PC MC racializes Islam and the problem of Islam (and still his friends ignore it when he does deny that while often attacking me for pointing it out). Recently, gravenimage offered a justification for such egregious behavior: this issue is of minor importance, apparently. Well, that’s one way to weasel out of one’s Counter-Jihad Softism.
Angemon says
voegelinian posted:
“There it is again — for the 900,000th time; and still Angemon denies that PC MC racializes Islam and the problem of Islam (and still his friends ignore it when he does deny that while often attacking me for pointing it out). Recently, gravenimage offered a justification for such egregious behavior: this issue is of minor importance, apparently. Well, that’s one way to weasel out of one’s Counter-Jihad Softism.”
And yet and again, voegelinian goes out of his way to misrepresent me and my stance. But I guess honesty is too much to expect form him… Apparently, dishonesty is a key requirement to “get” the problem of islam. And he should be very, very ashamed of the way he treats gravenimage. She has the patience of a saint, considering the abuse she endures from voegelinian on a nearly-daily basis. She’s been nothing but kind and understanding to him and what does she get in return? A swift kick to the teeth – the treatment voeg reserves to those who are not total sycophants.
jayell says
Well, just now I’m writing to you from sunny Hong Kong where they’re happily selling their Hollowe’en gear despite it’s nothing to do with Chinese.culture, crime is rock-bottom,, a young lady can.walk home late at.night in perfect safety (and in a mini-dress), I haven’t heard of a single taxi-rape despite the fact that there are thousands of taxis all over the place, and there.hasn’t been so much as a mention of bombs or explosions anywhere. But, oh dear, I’ve only seen ONE mosque tucked away out of sight, and only 3 or 4 women with the charming headgear (just ONE with face covered). Do you think that I should telll them that they’re being deprived of something fantastic in their lives?
underbed cat says
Maybe neither is the best choice.Israeli commando suit, and the isis outfit sold as Halloween outfits while Jews and muslims are in conflict is to me is insulting to the lives that have been lost in this time. I can’t imagine that after 9/11 children running around with trying to look like terrorists. They both should be pulled.
Now the situation could escalate Somehow it seems Walmart might get targeted for bad press. It really surprises me that it would even make to the store. Someone is not thinking clearly in the buying office, in my opinion.
underbed cat says
Just to add tha Israel is not aggressively entering countries to establish a caliphate, they are trying to protect their citizens. The global jihadist muslim movement,disguises itself masterfully, around the world.
Misinformation and misdirection by islamic organizations always blame claim victimhood as they raid countries with secular governments. This information is tucked away in the politically correct money belts.
I prefer these issues to be discussed with facts by governments and media, but that is not happening. The issue of Halloween costumes for children being used to soften facts and create hero’s from gruesome tactics, such as beheadings and stabbings,etc. muddies and creates more misinformation. As a business I think they should not side with either one, since it seems to be that no one understands the power of muslim warfare lawsuits, to only get out their message. Drop both…or keep both,(the later being most offensive to me.) Children should not be used in warefare or propaganda but sadly it appears that is the case. I wish Walmart to be a store, not a political punching bag,drop both. One goal of our enemy is to destroy American companies with lawsuits..this has to be acknowledged and stopped.
Larry A. Singleton says
Go to Wallmart’s Facebook page and Share This:
THIS IS CAIR
Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld, (CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood), That’s Conspiring to Islamize America by Gaubatz and Sperry.
Is CAIR a Terror Group? by Daniel Pipes (National Review Online)
http://www.danielpipes.org/15220/cair-terror-group#print
•”CAIR is a terrorist supporting front organization that is partially funded by terrorists”;
•”CAIR … is supported by terrorist supporting individuals, groups and countries”;
•”CAIR has proven links to, and was founded by, Islamic terrorists”; and
•”CAIR actively supports terrorists and terrorist supporting groups and nations.”
Getting to Know the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
http://www.danielpipes.org/biblio_cair.php (Assorted articles)
CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment by Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha (MEQ article)
meforum-org/916/cair-islamists-fooling-the-establishment#_ftnref60
CAIR’s silence on pastor’s apostasy death sentence is deafening” by Andrew G. Bostom (American Thinker)
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/10/cairs_silence_on_pastors_apostasy_death_sentence_is_deafening.html
Guess Who’s Not Coming to Dinner with CAIR by Andrew Harrod 10-18-15
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/10/guess-whos-not-coming-to-dinner-with-cair
JihadWatch director Robert Spencer has “heard of it happening many times before…that CAIR works to seal its events from all critical eyes.” As Middle East Forum director Daniel Pipes has noted, CAIR closed its January “Stand with Prophet” event in Garland, Texas, to reporters from Fox News, the Washington Free Beacon, and other outlets. CAIR even threatened United West reporters who had purchased tickets in advance with arrest and imprisonment.
Read the booklet “Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future” by David Horowitz and Robert Spencer.
“That term [Islamophobia] is an anti-concept that has been deliberately originated to make discussion of the issue impossible. And it’s similar to the term, in another kind of would-be debate that in the mainstream they want to silence… similar to the notion which functions as an anti-concept “climate change denier.” And what that does, it’s a package deal meant to silence… meant to destroy the ability to think, which is part of what makes it an anti-concept.” Ayn Rand Institute senior fellow Onkar Ghate.
Free Speech v. Political Correctness by Abraham H. Miller (Gatestone Institute)
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4862/berkeley-free-speech
FBI statistics show that hate crimes against Muslims, which are never justified, are actually quite uncommon, with hate crimes against Jews being over four times more common. Details here: http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2014/12/new-fbi-hate-crime-stats-another-blow-to-islamist
Many women and girls around the world have been brutalized and even killed for not wearing a hijab. A list of some of them, with further links to the relevant news stories, is at this link:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/today-is-world-hijab-day
CAIR and the MSA appear to have been involved in this event. Both were named unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land trial, which involved funneling money to the terror group Hamas. Both have demonstrable ties, documented and noted by the FBI, with Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. See, for example, these links:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/2340/federal-judge-agrees-cair-tied-to-hamas
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2011/March/Muslim-Student-Group-a-Gateway-to-Jihad/
11 of Canada’s highest-profile jihad terrorists tied to Muslim Students Association
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/02/11-of-canadas-highest-profile-jihad-terrorists-tied-to-muslim-students-association
Islamists Project Islam’s Worst Traits onto Christians by Raymond Ibrahim
http://www.meforum.org/2915/islamists-project-islam-worst-traits-onto
Muslims Project Islam’s Worst Traits onto Israel and the Jews by Raymond Ibrahim
raymondibrahim-com/8348/muslims-project-islam-worst-traits-onto-israel
Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat, (This is an Ass-Kicking little resource of 276 pages.)
And Holocaust in Rwanda: The Roles of Gun Control, Media Manipulation, Liberal Church Leaders and the United Nations. By Peter Hammond
Subscribe to Jihad/Campus Watch and the Middle East Forum/Quarterly, Family Security Matters, Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), NGO Monitor, Gatestone Institute, FrontPage Magazine, American Thinker, The Clarion Project, Cross Muslims, Palestinian Media Watch, Muhammad unveiled, Religion of Peace and read Raymond Ibrahim, Andrew Harrod, Efraim Karsh, Frank Gaffney, Patrick Poole, Caroline Glick, Bat Ye’or and others.
Read:
Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future by David Horowitz and Robert Spencer
Muslim Brotherhood in America by Robert Spencer
Subversive Mosques: Why Barack Obama Won’t Declare War on Radical Islam by Pamella Geller and Robert Spencer
Obama’s Immigration Fiasco and National Security by FrontPage Magazine.
Also I suggest you look up the name Frank Gaffney and his ten part course on the Muslim Brotherhood.
This is Islam: “She’s Buried Chest High”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXdy5Fwwfzg
The Council on American-Islamic Relations
10 Facts about CAIR
1. CAIR was created by the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic supremacist organization that pioneered 20th century Islamic terrorism and sanctions violence against civilians.
2. CAIR only has about 5,000 members, despite a membership fee of just $10.
3. CAIR represents the opinions of only 12% of Muslim-Americans according to Gallup.
4. CAIR receives financial support from foreign powers who have also provided direct support to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and Hamas.
5. CAIR has solicited money from sponsors of terror and received financial support from convicted terrorists.
6. CAIR founders have praised terrorists to Muslim audiences and said that suicide bombers are acting on behalf of Islam.
7. CAIR has raised funds for terrorists under the guise of helping 9/11 victims.
8. CAIR board members have called for the overthrow of the United States and the imposition of Islamic law. CAIR has suggested applying Sharia punishment (ie. the death penalty) to users who criticize Islam on the Internet.
9. At least 15 high-level CAIR staff members have been under federal investigation for ties to Islamic terror.
10. CAIR has discouraged Muslim-Americans from cooperating with law enforcement and has spent more time and money advocating on behalf of convicted terrorists than for their victims.
The CAIR Challenge
We have a standing offer to CAIR that we will take down our entire
website if this self-proclaimed “civil rights” group will simply answer
the following questions having to do with the most basic of human rights: discrimination, profiling, religious freedom, gender equality and terrorism.
1. Do you want to see Islamic law eventually in America? If not, then why not?
2. What is your position on religious profiling? Do you denounce Saudi Arabia for profiling non-Muslims and preventing them from traveling to Mecca?
3. Who are your foreign donors and how are religious minorities treated in their countries?
4. Do you believe that it is wrong for Muslims to force members of another religion to pay money to Islam in the form of a jizya tax?
5. Are non-Muslims who reject Muhammad and resist Islamic rule considered to be “innocent persons” in Islam?
6. Do you believe women should have the same rights as men? Should Muslim women be free to marry whomever they choose and wear what they want?
7. Hamas has deliberately murdered hundreds of Israeli civilians, including children, and left hundreds more with physical disability, mental impairment (from brain damage) and crippling physical pain. They have also killed Americans. Do you condemn Hamas as a terrorist organization?
8. Do you believe in equal rights for all religions? Should religious minorities be as free to promote their faith in Muslim countries as CAIR and other Muslims do here in the West?
9. Do you believe that the punishment for adultery should be death? If not, then why not?
10. Why have you refused to condemn the Islamic Republic of Sudan for the deaths of over 200,000 Africans in the name of racial cleansing and Jihad? Would you be just as apathetic if this were a non-Muslim government killing Muslims instead?
A poster distributed by CAIR to the Muslim-American community nine years after 9/11.
“From its founding by Muslim Brotherhood leaders, CAIR conspired
with other affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood to support terrorists.”
Assistant U.S. DOJ Attorney Gordon D. Kromberg
“Media in the United States is very gullible, ok? And they will see
that if you have something, especially as a Muslim, if you have something
to say, they will come running to you—and take advantage of that.”
CAIR Vice Chari Sarwat Husain
For information on CAIR, please see:
The Investigative Project’s report on The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
and CAIR Observatory
Joseph says
I wonder if that costume comes in adult sizes?
Evolution says
I get the feeling it does.
Perhaps we could ask this particular Walmart store if they have any in stock ?
http://www.walmart.com/store/345/details
William Hausman says
Every decision a business makes is intended to increase net profit. Simple. Walmart made its decision.. Now I make my decision. I’ll shop at its competitor, Fry’s. I will now consider Walmart an allay of my enemy.
underbed cat says
Not so simple. Consider that Walmart has to contend with” slander lawsuits” when CAIR comes calling. The agenda is to hurt our economy with lawsuits, so that may be why they agreed to drop the the costume, but they should drop both. Not shopping at Walmart, while that may be your protest, is exactly what is the goal by the person who is “offended by the Israeli soldier outfit.” The same reason why some disrupt air flights, demand, demand part of it is cash, the other is to harm the economy of the infidel in my opinion.
A phone call or letter also works. I am sure they want your business. But I cannot speak for them, just know how that stuff works.
William Hausman says
I understand that Walmart has to be sensitive about allowing itself to be vulnerable to law suits. This is the case now with all businesses and any other enterprise, The Islamists have now included in their stealth jihad law suits jihad. These law suits are highly disruptive and expensive, which of course is why companies like Walmart will usually buckle under to threats. But what I fail to understand is why Walmart. felt compelled to remove an Israeli icon;: that is, why they didn’t stand firm to freely advertise as is their civil right. If it comes about that an extraordinary number of national businesses give in to the threat of law warfare, then the Jihadists will have crippled us.