"Gregory Morrow" > wrote in
oups.com:

> Boron Elgar wrote:
>
>> I think it would be nice to stand up to religious bigotry. There
>> are any number of ways it can be done.
>
> The pocketbook method is often a good way. Boycotting or
> supporting a group or cause or business via the bottom line is
> often very, very effective...tyrants and despots know this and so
> do us informed consumers :-)

The pocketbook approach works if you have leverage which you don't with
a lot of Muslim countries because you have alienated them. What are
you going to do? Tell them you won't buy things that you're already
not buying?

Desperate much?

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"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why
the poor have no food, they call me a communist."

Dom Helder Camara