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CAIR Action Alert:

Don't Let Lowe's Off the Hook for Appeasing Anti-Muslim Bigotry
Take a letter to your local Lowe's store manager, post a photo online

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/21/2011) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today urged all people of conscience to continue to hold Lowe's corporate headquarters accountable for its decision to appease anti-Muslim bigotry by delivering a letter of protest to a store manager and posting a photo of that action online. Nearly 250,000 people have already expressed their disappointment in Lowe's.

A sample letter to Lowe's managers provided by CAIR states in part: "Lowe's should agree to undertake reasonable actions to show the broader American public that it's business model includes no room for bigotry. Until that time, we have no interest in your products."

The home improvement chain recently pulled its advertising from TLC's new reality series "All-American Muslim" because of an anti-Muslim campaign initiated by fringe right-wing groups like the Florida Family Association (FFA) and Internet hate sites such as "Bare Naked Islam" -- which recently featured a number of threats of violence targeting U.S. and European mosques. The hate groups objected to the show's non-stereotypical portrayals of American Muslims.

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Lowe's officials have ignored requests to meet with community organizations.

A number of spontaneous protests have take place outside Lowe's stores nationwide and the retailer was forced to delete thousands of anti-Muslim comments from its Facebook page.

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"Lowe's seems to be betting that the upcoming holidays will distract people from the corporation's decision to appease anti-Muslim bigots," said CAIR National Legislative Director Corey Saylor. "If everyone takes a few simple steps we can remind Lowe's that caving in to bigotry is a bad business model."

Saylor noted that numerous politicians, celebrities and journalists have already spoken out against the decision to pull the ads. This week a group of Baptist and Jewish leaders delivered a petition with 200,000 signatures to Lowe's headquarters. A separate petition has over 40,000 signatures and is growing.

CAIR is working in coordination with the National Boycott Lowe's Network and the Boycott Bigotry campaign.

ACTION REQUESTED (As always, be polite but persistent. Forward this alert to your friends and family and ask them to take similar actions.)

1) Deliver a letter to Lowe's and take a picture. (For Muslims this is a simple action to take right before or after Jummah prayers.)

• Find a Lowe's outlet near you.
  
• Print a letter and have some friends and family join you in signing it. To print out the letter, go here.
  
• Make a sign that says "Boycott Bigotry."
  
• Go to your local Lowe's.
  
• Take a picture outside with your sign and the Lowe's logo.
  
• Deliver the letter to the store manager and ask him or her to send it to the regional manager.
  
• Later, post your photo on Boycott Bigotry, your Facebook and on Twitter (Sample: @Lowes caves to bigots over "All-American Muslim" so I will take my money elsewhere #boycottbigotry)

2) Friend both "Boycott Bigotry" and the "National Lowe's Boycott Network" on Facebook. These networks will keep you looped in and offer you additional ways to reject bigotry.

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