Boycott Best Buy

For funding terrorism. Best Buy is about to go tits up anyway, so you'll just be accelerating the inevitable.

A former Marine who served in Beirut in 1982-1983 and Iraq in 2003 looks into the camera and declares, “On behalf of myself and my family, we will no longer conduct business at Best Buy.” He cuts his card in half. The Marine joined over 8,000 others who have signed a petition to boycott Best Buy over the company’s financial support for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.

The federal government designated CAIR as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation, a charity discovered to be a front for Hamas. CAIR’s name appears on a list of entities belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood’s secret “Palestine Committee” set up in the U.S. to support Hamas. The FBI subsequently ended its use of CAIR as a liaison to the Muslim community. CAIR lost its fight to have the designation lifted in 2009 when it was ruled that there was “ample evidence” connecting CAIR to Hamas.

On January 23, the Facebook page of CAIR’s Minnesota chapter announced that Best Buy had become a “Platinum Sponsor” of its annual banquet to be held on February 11. CAIR says the event sold out with nearly 350 attendees.  The keynote speaker was Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of “Ground Zero Mosque” fame. The Master of Ceremonies was Hussein Khatib, a former official with the Holy Land Foundation who is also designated as an “unindicted co-conspirator.” His name appears on a list of those who “are and/or were a part of the HAMAS’ social infrastructure in Israel and the Palestinian territories.” He is also on the National Board of American Muslims for Palestine.