Fascism
creeping
...a black couple in Baltimore… had contracted with the Church’s Chicken restaurant chain to open a new outlet in Baltimore. Unfortunately for the entrepreneurial couple, as they were investing in their chicken outlet, Church’s Chicken was purchased by Crescent Capital Investments Inc., the US affiliate of the Bahrain-based First Islamic Investment Bank BSC. And, upon the restaurant chain’s purchase, these new Islamic corporate owners decided to institute Shari’ah laws upon their investments.
This caught the Beasleys new restaurant in a tough spot because pork products were on the morning breakfast menu for the Church’s Chicken chain. Because Shari’ah law principles had been imposed on the Beasleys’ new restaurant, they would be barred from serving their breakfast menu items, their corporate owners informed them. This barring from being able to serve their breakfast items, the couple maintains, contributed to the restaurant’s failure and their eventual bankruptcy.
... older Church’s Chicken establishments, stores already open and operating, were grandfathered in and allowed to continue serving the pork food products. The new corporate masters decided that only new establishments would be barred from serving pork....
...if an investment bank cannot allow its customers to operate under normal American custom, then they should not be lending money and doing business with American customers who are not interested in submitting to Shari’ah laws.
So I guess if they take over MasterCard they’re gonna disallow all charges from Victoria’s Secret?
It seems a simple notion, that if you do business in our country, you play by our rules.
Has anybody asked what would happen if an American business - say, McDonalds, f’r’instance - were to set up shop in Riyadh or maybe Mecca, offering pork sausage biscuits for breakfast?
Yeah, yeah, I know: “Aieee-e-e-e-e-e!!! We are offended!!!”
Posted by ZZMike on 04/29/08 at 09:45 AM
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