Comments on: Cadbury: Inadvertently funding terrorism?

By: Your Mum

Your Mum — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:37:10 +0000

I LOVE Cadbury chocolate, and wont stop eating it

By: sharma24

sharma24 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:36:34 +0000

Halal, I thought was about the way meat is prepared, especially butchered, as far as the culinary part goes. Obviously, it extends to other products also. The Arabic meaning of Halal is the Islamic way of life and encompasses more than just food. But it is true that companies go to ridiculous extent for another percentage point of market influence. Besides, it is never clear as to where the money is going. Thanks for pointing this out.

By: Professor Dumbledore (a.k.a. Thomas Rawinski)

Professor Dumbledore (a.k.a. Thomas Rawinski) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:03:52 +0000

You neglected to mention that not all terrorist groups are islamic. The general public is only aware of the islamic terrorist groups because they are attacking Americans (mostly) and are therefore villified.

By: Daniel Carabellese

Daniel Carabellese — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:11:35 +0000

Thanks Aisha,

Although I myself am an Atheist, I find such blatant stereotyping of any group summarily offensive. The tone of this e-mail really bothered me, addressing its recipient as though it was self-evident that Muslims were evil, nasty terrorists. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR MONEY IS GOING?!!!!! How inane.

Thanks also for the heads-up on Cadbury. I’ve amended the post to read “Australian branches of”, to avoid ambiguity.

By: Aisha Baranowska, UK

Aisha Baranowska, UK — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:18:19 +0000

THANK YOU!;-))))) At least one blogger out there is more enlightened and understanding person! Thank you, Dear. The e-mail was perhaps sent by an Islamophobe who knows nothing about our Religion, except of what he can find out in TV news…;(- Thank you once again. I’m so tired of doing one ad the same job of telling people how it really is and that true Islam has nothing to do with terrorism and Muslims are in no way a threat to any Western society. Unfortunately, not many people can understand… We just want to live according to our religious teachings, that’s all. And btw, Cadbury is a British corporation, yet popular worldwide. Tc.
Aisha, UK;-))))

By: James

James — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:18:55 +0000

Daniel, you have simply stated the bleeding obvious. However, the need for you to do so is the great shame. Leaving aside your well made points, has the author of this email, whom I shall refer to as the ‘Bigotry King’, or any other for that matter, stopped to consider the Halal certification in itself? What is so undesireable about animals killed in an ethical manner, and ingredients being of appropriate quality? I would suggest that a probuct bearing such a sigil is liable to be of superior quality. It is somewhat less likely to be responsible for destroying a landmark near you, ‘Bigotry KING’!

By: Daniel Carabellese

Daniel Carabellese — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:54:22 +0000

Indeed, Clayton.

I respect people’s right to be discerning consumers on a factual basis. Taking your Neo-Nazi group as an example, I can appreciate why people would be hesitant to buy their chocolate. Personally, I would probably opt for a third type of chocolate, neither Nazi nor charity.

However, in this e-mail, people are being encouraged to boycott certain brands based on vague suspicions grounded entirely in bigotry and religious discrimination. Not all Muslims are terrorists, unlike Nazis who are, at least in the last several decades, fairly polarized into the evil category.

By: Lee Burgess

Lee Burgess — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:15:04 +0000

Daniel,
Once again you are indeed right especially with this remark “Do I really know where my money is going when I buy anything from a major corporation?” when you really think about it not only do we not know where our money goes from cooperation’s such as Cadbury but what of the check out person whom due to our service gets a form of money, what will they spend it on? for all we know they could gamble it on illegal rooster fights, the truth is when it comes to our own spending we buy what we like and need, not on what or whom the money goes to in the end.
To those out there who are reading this and saying I care where my money goes consider this choice (keeping with the chocolate theme) There are two chocolate bars both of which are the same price: One is your favourite chocolate bar but you know the money goes to a Nazi appreciation group or the other is a chocolate bar you can’t eat due to it tastes very very terrible but the money goes to a charity foundation. So which one would you choose?