{"id":8050,"date":"2011-12-15T14:32:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T19:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/?p=8050"},"modified":"2011-12-15T14:32:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T19:32:23","slug":"the-one-stop-jihadi-superstore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/the-one-stop-jihadi-superstore\/","title":{"rendered":"The One Stop Jihadi Superstore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all this controversy around the <em><strong>One Stop Jihadi Superstore<\/strong><\/em> aka <em><strong>Lowes<\/strong><\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/tue-december-13-2011\/kabulvision---a-new-lowe?xrs=share_copy\">(as Aasif Mandvi oh so eloquently put it in this <strong>Daily Show<\/strong> bit)<\/a> and their caving to a Christian fringe extremist organization (<a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/11\/lowes-protects-all-americans-from-dumb-reality-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\">as Phillygrrl blogged about here<\/a>), it was only a matter of time before the ads that were pulled off air for <a href=\"http:\/\/tlc.howstuffworks.com\/tv\/all-american-muslim\/all-american-muslim-families.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the TLC show <strong>All American-Muslim<\/strong><\/a> took the viral airwaves. Exclusively for Sepia Mutiny mutineers, we were able dig up one of these lost commercials starring former <strong>Outsourced<\/strong> stars <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/riz_manji\" target=\"_blank\">Rizwan Manji<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Parvesh\" target=\"_blank\">Parvesh Cheena<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/qQhls5PEmeQ\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/qQhls5PEmeQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>As the token Muslim mutineer, I will attest, my folks also have holiday lights up at their house, I buy candy canes and we even mail out holiday cards. This parody ain&#8217;t so far from the truth. <em><strong>Happy holidays, from our mutiny to yours!!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>P.S &#8211; Continue to <a href=\"http:\/\/signon.org\/sign\/defend-our-american-values?source=s.tw&amp;r_by=1771302\" target=\"_blank\">boycott, sign petitions and write letters to Lowes<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s been a week and they still haven&#8217;t come up with an acceptable response. And while you are at, <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/technology\/2011\/12\/all-american-muslim-kayak-calls-show-terrible-but-apologizes-to-customers.html\" target=\"_blank\">boycott the website Kayak.com too for their backhanded apology<\/a> for pulling their ads off the show. But do support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/12\/12\/russell-simmons-buys-all-american-ad-space_n_1144966.html?ref=entertainment\" target=\"_blank\">Russel Simmons and all his business ventures for buying ad space when no other corporations were willing to<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all this controversy around the One Stop Jihadi Superstore aka Lowes, (as Aasif Mandvi oh so eloquently put it in this Daily Show bit) and their caving to a Christian fringe extremist organization (as Phillygrrl blogged about here), it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/the-one-stop-jihadi-superstore\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,48],"tags":[174,61,170,175,176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8050"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8056,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8050\/revisions\/8056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}