The boycott nonsense

           I am not trying to interrupt those who think what is right or wrong to them. I just have my own opinion, if you have yours to stick to, than let it be yours, I have my own. Personally, I doubt that by boycotting Jewish products will help the war in Gaza. Why? Well, by boycotting those products do you not think that it would effect our own economy. Think of those who work in the company itself, now, Starbucks, intel, Cocacola, Estee Lauder etc. is not a small company.

    People who work in there and actually need a job are muslims too. So, what if a small amount of muslims decided not to buy their products. Do you not think that they do not have strategy plans to make their company grow, I mean you can never run away from Jewish products. Advertisements everywhere, good advertisements they are like the big brothers of the world, they are companies that never fall no matter how many people you recruit to boycott the company.  People all over the world buy their product and a tiny amount of people would not hurt them at all, even if it does, it would just be a pinch for them. If you make a statistic on how many malaysian muslims work in the company, you would think twice to boycott the big companies. 

     Not only that, maybe our government has some funds/investment of the company itself. So, if all the Jewish companies are gone here in Malaysia, do you think we would get attention from tourists or expatrates, maybe you think we do not need their attention, no, actually we do. Here is the thing, have you ever looked went into a mall and think its dodgy and suddenly starbucks is right at the corner and you just think oh alright this place is alright, why? just because starbucks is there. What about mac donalds? Walk in to a mall, you do not know what to eat, and suddenly you see this really familiar logo and the red and yellow cheerful colour, you instantly feel like eating something from mcdonalds, because everyone knows mcdonalds just like everyone knows cocacola. So, with these so called tools, people would come to our country and think "oh, malaysia is not a backward country after all it has all the main shops, I don't mind coming here again". 

    So, if we can't boycott the companies, what can we do to help as muslims? Well, as muslims, we can't just pray and not do anything about it. I am not saying praying does not help, it does! but, we have to do something right. Well, come to think of it, we have rich muslims around the world. Instead of fighting with each other, we could keep the energy for those in need, but, ofcourse that won't happen. We can also have our own product, and make all muslims buy it, well, not just muslims but everyone all over the world. Try to do what the jews do. If they can do it, why cant we do it too?