by Hugh Fitzgerald
Smashing in plate glass windows over Coca-Cola.
Do things go better without Coke?
Bradford, England has a large Muslim population. And recently some of those Muslims, enraged that a restaurant — Salah’s — carried Coca-Cola on its menu, attacked the establishment, smashing in the plate glass windows and attempting to break down the door. Coca-Cola, you see, is a brand of soft drink which many Arabs began to boycott in 1967 and 1968 because the company allowed a bottling plant to open in Israel. But that boycott ended long ago; it was simply too popular a drink to ban. The only countries that now ban Coca-Cola are Cuba, Russia, and North Korea. The Muslim bully boys in Bradford may not have gotten the glad news — it’s decades old – that Coca-Cola has long been accepted everywhere in the 57 Muslim states. Video of the trashing of Salah’s restaurant can be found here:
BREAKING:
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 25, 2024
Anti-Israel protesters attacked an Arab restaurant in Bradford, England last night and violently assaulted its employees
Why?
Because they sell Coca Cola which the protesters claim must be boycotted for not having left the Israeli market
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The running battles between the restaurant’s Muslim employees trying to protect their establishment, and the Muslim men attacking the restaurant, were ferocious. The restaurant is called Salah’s, an Arab name. The employees clearly looked Muslim. Besides, those attacking the restaurant must have scoped it out beforehand, possibly to check to make sure halal meats were indeed halal, and that’s when they discovered that Coca-Cola was on the menu. Did those smashing in the windows and fighting with employees realize that the restaurant they were destroying was Arab-owned? Yes. But these were fanatics, unwilling to drop the boycott of Coca-Cola even if Arab governments had done so. These Muslim rioters wanted to teach fellow Muslims in the U.K. – Arabs, Pakistanis — a lesson: do not weaken the boycott just because some customers would like to order a coke. Serve them Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Perrier water, Orangina. But not Coca-Cola, because more than half-century ago Coca-Cola allowed a bottling plant to open in Israel, and that must never be forgiven. This is one more illustration of the depth of the hysteria displayed by some Muslim Arabs against Israel, just like the woman complaining that the blue-and-white wrapper for her McDonald’s McChicken sandwich, would insidiously make people think favorably of the Israeli flag, and hence, of Israel itself. This woman in the U.S., complaining to McDonald’s about her wrapper, is clearly unhinged by her hate of Israel. But so, too, are the Arab or Pakistani rioters attacking an Arab restaurant in Bradford, perfectly ready to trash a restaurant whose Arab owner had dared to serve Coca-Cola in violation of what had once been a serious boycott during the ’60s and ’70s, but had fallen into desuetude many decades ago.
Several years ago, one of the most celebrated Turkish journalists, Burak Bekdil, described one more Muslim conspiracy theory, one that is decades old, and according to which not Coca-Cola, but its rival Pepsi-Cola turned out to be linked to support for the hated Zionists:
Pro-Palestinian Muslims have refused to drop their decades-long conspiracy theory that Pepsi Cola is essentially the code name for a Zionist plot – “Pay Every Pence to Save Israel.”
This columnist first heard of the theory when he was a teenager in early 1980s. “Don’t buy Pepsi Cola. Buy Coca Cola,” warned the always pious grocery store owner in the neighbourhood, then explaining why I should not buy Pepsi Cola. “It’s a sin. Good Muslims never drink Pepsi Cola.” I asked him: “So why do you sell Pepsi Cola?”…
Folly is a persistent thing. Even in recent years a member of Hamas, the darling of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his fellow Islamists, (Hamas member of parliament) Salem Salamah, told Hamas’s television station Al-Aqsa TV: “There are companies established by the colonialists and occupiers – large companies with branches all over the world, like Pepsi, Pepsi Cola. This is a well-known company. Pepsi is an acronym. P-E-P-S-I – Pay Every Pence to Save Israel. Pay every pence – pence is one-hundredth of a dollar – to save Israel. Pay every pence to save Israel…”
Egyptian cleric Hazem Abu Ismail called for a Muslim boycott of Pepsi because it stands for “Pay Every Penny Saving Israel.” He explained: “They took the first letter of each word – ‘Pay Every Penny Saving Israel’ – and they formed the word Pepsi. When you pay [to buy Pepsi], you are saving Israel … My little son knows more about the boycott than me. When we go shopping, he says to me: ‘Buy this, don’t buy that.’ He knows them by heart.”
I recalled all that man-made nonsense when a newspaper headline heralded that Mr Erdoğan inaugurated a $150 million Pepsi factory in western Turkey. Since Mr Erdoğan cannot be a crypto Zionist his fellow Islamist conspiracy theorists should rethink their “Pay Every Penny Saving Israel” acronym.
One might explain to those Muslim conspiracy theorists — and there are so many of them, wallowing in so many of these theories, dozens or hundreds of them, each more absurd than the last — that the soft drink Pepsi-Cola was first concocted in New Bern, North Carolina in 1893 by a pharmacist, Caleb Bradham, under the name “Brad’s Drink,” that it was renamed “Pepsi-Cola” in 1898, with “Pepsi” taken from the word “dyspepsia” (indigestion, which the drink would supposedly cure), and thus Pepsi-Cola came into existence half a century before Israel was even founded. Both etymology and chronology point up the absurdity of the belief that “Pepsi” means “Pay Every Pence Saving Israel.”
What should we make of this bizarre “Pepsi” tale? It’s one more illustration of the fantasy world that so many Muslims, especially Arabs, succumb to. They can’t allow themselves to believe that the Israelis alone could have successfully withstood the armed assaults of so many Arab states. They must therefore have had, and still have, all kinds of secret help, a cabal of rich and powerful Jews, whose support explains Israel’s otherwise inexplicable victories. And if something makes Muslims look bad, then it must really have been a plot by Jews. 9/11 was surely a Mossad plot, diabolically conceived so that innocent Muslims would be blamed. No Jew went to work on 9/11 at the Twin Towers. It’s a fact. They called in sick, every last one of them. But the Jews own the media and didn’t let this get out. As for the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, he makes Arabs and Muslims look bad, so of course he must be a Jew, a Mossad agent. Don’t be naive — what else could he be? And Anwar Sadat made peace with Israel, so Sadat must have been a Jew. That’s taken for granted in Egyptian Islamist circles. Who else would conclude a peace treaty with Israel?
Hugh Fitzgerald
Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/muslim-madness-zionist-soft-drinks/
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