Sunday, July 16, 2006
Circulated earlier on the Muslim-American Society/Islamic Society of Boston moderated email list was this email purportedly from Howard Shultz of Starbucks, originally posted at the wildly anti-Semitic web-site, Ziopedia. The part that labels it a "parody" was snipped off. Even the commenters at the site recognize it as "fake but accurate" -- close enough for our local moderate Muslim groups.
...Without you, my valued customer, I wouldn’t be able to raise hundreds of millions of dollars each year to support Israeli citizens from terrorist attacks and keep reminding every Jew in America, to defend Israel at any cost. $5 billion per year from the US government are no way near enough to pay for all the weaponry, bulldozers and security fences needed to protect innocent Israeli citizens from anti-Semitic Muslim terrorism. Corporate sponsorships are essential.
Having the bigger picture in mind, Starbucks have donated a store to the US army to help in the “War on Terror”. I cannot emphasise enough, how vital the “War on Terror” is for the continued viability and prospering of the Jewish State...
This also appeared on the PC(USA)'s Israel/Palestine network. It was quickly recognized as a joke, but not by the original poster.