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Join the buy Danish movement!
« on: October 28, 2009, 12:46:11 PM »
Judith Apter Klinghoffer
"BUY DANISH" ASK MY DANISH FRIENDS/ UPDATE


John Zimmerman is right. The Muslim countries have chosen to pressure liberal little Denmark in order to teach the media and governments, which stand by them, a lesson which does not bode well for free speech or satire. Kuwait has joined the Saudi boycott (the Saudi market alone is worth 1.2 billion) and I suspect the rest will follow. So, here is a plea from my Danish friends:

    "If you Americans look with this great sympathy on our case, couldn't you then raise a consumer support of DK in the US? The opposite of a boycott. A movement of: "Buy Danish!" Please?

    You can easily eat and digest all our famous Danish cheese at your millions of breakfast-tables from Seattle to Atlanta. Then the boycott (which is escalating fast down there now) will be harmless.

Well, we can and should. In fact the idea immediately occurred to the readers of Charles of LGF who was kind enough to post the news about the Saudi boycott on his popular site. They recommended you buy not only the always delicious Danish butter cookies but also:

Danish Havarti cheese

Carlsberg and Tuborg Beers.

Arla owns White Clover Dairy, a Wisconsin company so buy that brand. It comes under White Clover and Holland Farm.

Danish Crown hams ( DAK (sold at Sam clubs)... baby back ribs, because they come from Denmark.

You shop online at The Danish Foodshop and Danish Deli Foods.

You can also buy gorgious Danish porcelain and LEGO for the kids.

UPDATE: First, the speed with which this movement took flight is amazing and encouraging. Thanks, guys, for helping spread in on your blogs. The boycott is gathering steam. Our old friend Libya also withdrew its ambassador. But the Danes are standing firm and the EU (for the moment) is standing by them:

    EU trade chief Peter Mandelson met a Saudi minister at a meeting in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos on Sunday and "urged the minister to convey the seriousness of this issue to his government," his spokesman said.

    "Any boycott of Danish goods would be seen as a boycott of European goods," said spokesman Peter Power.

An opinion poll showed that 79 percent of Danes think Fogh Rasmussen should not issue an apology and 62 percent say the newspaper should not apologize.


http://www.buydanish.dk

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/740

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« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2009, 11:45:37 AM »
Also "Big Lots" sales a lot of international foods at reasonable prices. I makeup Christmas baskets with these items in it, for gifts on the pagan holiday.
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« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2009, 01:19:32 PM »
Also "Big Lots" sales a lot of international foods at reasonable prices. I makeup Christmas baskets with these items in it, for gifts on the pagan holiday.

Are you Christian?
What denomination?
If you are Christian why call Christmas a Pagan holiday

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« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2009, 01:22:39 PM »
Also "Big Lots" sales a lot of international foods at reasonable prices. I makeup Christmas baskets with these items in it, for gifts on the pagan holiday.

Are you Christian?
What denomination?
If you are Christian why call Christmas a Pagan holiday

Hmm...maybe she meant Santa Claus or what?
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« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2009, 01:30:22 PM »
Also "Big Lots" sales a lot of international foods at reasonable prices. I makeup Christmas baskets with these items in it, for gifts on the pagan holiday.

Are you Christian?
What denomination?
If you are Christian why call Christmas a Pagan holiday

Hmm...maybe she meant Santa Claus or what?

I want her answer not yours

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« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2009, 01:39:01 PM »
I LOVE Danish products.
I have Bang & Olufsen electronic equipment, and I eat Arla cheese! I think I will invite some friends and serve some Tuborg and Carlsberg!!!  8) 8) 8) 8)

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« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2009, 06:28:48 PM »
Also "Big Lots" sales a lot of international foods at reasonable prices. I makeup Christmas baskets with these items in it, for gifts on the pagan holiday.

Are you Christian?
What denomination?
If you are Christian why call Christmas a Pagan holiday

Yes. I come from a long line of Catholics but so far I'm nondenominational. Google it, nowhere in the bible does it say we should celebrate Jesus' birthday.
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« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2009, 06:32:56 PM »
Also "Big Lots" sales a lot of international foods at reasonable prices. I makeup Christmas baskets with these items in it, for gifts on the pagan holiday.

Are you Christian?
What denomination?
If you are Christian why call Christmas a Pagan holiday

Yes. I come from a long line of Catholics but so far I'm nondenominational. Google it, nowhere in the bible does it say we should celebrate Jesus' birthday.

First off I know what the word means.
So no need for that remark.
It does not say we should but it does not say we cannot.

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« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2009, 06:33:08 PM »
Hyperion,
 I was at Costco's today and I bought Danish Fontina for your cause.
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« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2009, 06:35:42 PM »


First off I know what the word means.
So no need for that remark.
It does not say we should but it does not say we cannot.
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What word....... You lost me?
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« Reply #10 on: October 29, 2009, 06:36:38 PM »


First off I know what the word means.
So no need for that remark.
It does not say we should but it does not say we cannot.

What word....... You lost me?
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« Reply #11 on: October 29, 2009, 06:40:37 PM »


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What word....... You lost me?
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 Nondenominational
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That's what I am. It has nothing to do with you.
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« Reply #12 on: October 29, 2009, 06:44:07 PM »



What word....... You lost me?
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 Nondenominational
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That's what I am. It has nothing to do with you.
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At least quote the post.

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« Reply #13 on: October 29, 2009, 06:49:29 PM »
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Yes. I come from a long line of Catholics but so far I'm nondenominational(. )Google it, nowhere in the bible does it say we should celebrate Jesus' birthday.
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There's a period after it.
Google it .....is Christmas a pagan holiday. thick head!
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« Reply #14 on: October 29, 2009, 06:53:27 PM »
Why call it a pagan holiday?  Is that necessary?  It is an important holiday to some members of this forum.  I have never experienced such divisiveness in all my time here.  It's fine to not observe something you don't believe in.  Why be so disrespectful?
Google what?  We don't derive our beliefs based on google. 
Be very CAREFUL of people whose WORDS don't match their ACTIONS.

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« Reply #15 on: October 29, 2009, 07:02:11 PM »
Is Google nondenominational?  :::D
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« Reply #16 on: October 29, 2009, 07:09:13 PM »
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Yes. I come from a long line of Catholics but so far I'm nondenominational(. )Google it, nowhere in the bible does it say we should celebrate Jesus' birthday.

There's a period after it.
Google it .....is Christmas a pagan holiday. thick head!
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« Reply #17 on: October 29, 2009, 07:29:27 PM »
I feel this way if your going to dish it out........you better be able to take it.
Nice match Americanhero- I hold no grudges.
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« Reply #18 on: October 29, 2009, 08:06:45 PM »
It's true we're not required to celebrate Jesus' birthday as Christians, but almost all Christians all over the world celebrate Christmas, in various ways in various cultures, because we love Jesus and want to honor Jesus' entire life. Just because something isn't required doesn't mean it's forbidden, and Christmas is a chance for Christians to pass on their values to their children through reading stories from the NT to them or explaining who is who in a nativity scene.

Many Christmas traditions do have pagan roots, and to be honest, I'm ok with that because it symbolizes the Christian faith replacing the old religions. To me personally I feel it honors my European heritage, in the sense of these traditions being developed by my ancestors, before they knew Christianity, and then changing the meanings of the traditions as they embraced the Christian faith. As long as you don't attach any evil or demonic meanings to most things, I don't think it has those meanings.

Take Halloween for example. You can dress up in a silly costume, have fun with your friends, and munch on candy. OR you can sacrifice an animal in a bizarre and painful ritual. The first one is obviously benign, the second one is strictly forbidden by Christian faith. I think most Christians are smart enough to know when the line would be crossed and I think most of these holidays that fundamentalists rail against are benign as long as the people celebrating them are good people who just want to have fun.

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« Reply #19 on: October 30, 2009, 06:49:47 AM »
". . . Learn not the way of the heathen,. . . For the customs of the people are vain- for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not... But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities"
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« Reply #20 on: October 30, 2009, 08:56:33 AM »
A bit harsh to call Christmas that way you did!