I am calling on the blogosphere to BOYCOTT MARRIOTT HOTELS.
Brigitte Gabriel was good enough to share the latest act of dhimmitude by an American company by capitulating and accommodating CAIR but refusing to serve those of us fighting for America. If the Marriott Corporation wants to operate in America, make money in America, be free to pursue their profits in America, enjoy the freedom of America - then don’t stand in the way of the very people putting their asses on the line to makethat happen.
Buttkissing, terror loving, America hating Marriott - banish them to France! Brigitte is one of the Keynote speakers at People’s Truth Forum anti terrorism conference along with her colleagues Dr. Harvey Kushner, Robert Spencer and Laura Mansfield. Sleeping with the enemy at the Marriott, Worldnetdaily.com
The Georgetown Marriott Conference Center rejected a "terrorism" symposium on
the grounds that the sponsoring organization was too controversial and the venue inappropriate for this type of forum. Concurrently, another Marriott Hotel in the Washington area is hosting the Council on American- Islamic Relations’ annual conference and participating as a panelist at the gala will be an alleged co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
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According to the Georgetown Marriott executives, the decision to reject the event, being hosted by the People’s Truth Forum, or PTF, was based upon business considerations: The event would call for heightened security since protesters might be attracted from both the student body and off campus. These same protesters might block the front entrance leading to confrontations with hotel guests and/or room cancellations." COWARDS!
After researching the matter, the Marriott’s corporate office supported the local decision and issued the following statement: “Due to the high density of Muslim students on campus, we’re afraid of the potential for violent protests, injured employees and damage to the facility. According to PTF’s president, Jeffrey Epstein, The People’s Truth Forum, a fact-based, non-partisan organization, is dedicated to educating Americans on topics of national security. Controversy and resistance is nothing new to us given our commitment to disseminating ‘unpopular’ truths.”
Epstein added: "Although I don’t harbor ill feelings toward the Marriott Corporation for their weak-kneed ‘business’ decision pertaining to the Georgetown property, I am deeply troubled by the realization that a major American corporation could fear reprisal from enemy sympathizers, within our borders, during a time of war. This situation certainly begs the question as to what degree our national security has already been compromised.”
He may not harbor ill feelings but as an American engaged in a world war I surely do - Atlas
Today, CAIR will host its 11th Annual Banquet at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Va. CAIR is a self-proclaimed Muslim advocacy group that has its roots in the Palestinian Hamas. CAIR’s parent organization, the Islamic Association for Palestine, was founded by Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook. CAIR, itself, has had numerous individuals convicted in and/or deported by the United States for terrorist activity. And CAIR is the defendant in a lawsuit put forward by the family of a lead FBI agent for that agent’s murder during the September 11 attacks.
CAIR has advertised on its website that it will be featuring Siraj Wahhaj as one of the speakers at the banquet. Wahhaj, an imam at the At-Taqwa Mosque in Brooklyn, N.Y., is known for having his name on the U.S. attorney’s list of potential coconspirators of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Two of the individuals convicted in the bomb plot, Omar Abdel Rahman (the leader of the conspiracy) and Clement Rodney Hampton-El (an expert bomb maker), worshipped at Wahhaj’s mosque. Wahhaj was also a character witness for Abdel Rahman at the 1995 trial against him.
What does this say about our current state of affairs, when one of the largest American corporations is willing to silence an ally and give voice to the enemy? It says that we, as a nation, are on a dangerous path that only starts with appeasement, yet ends in our destruction. If the Marriott is a test case for the future consciousness of America, then we can be assured that we will have no future.
Marriott’s email Webform with which you can mail comments and complaints.
Marriott’s phone, snail mail and fax contact info page.
Contact and info page about the Georgetown Marriott Hotel and ConferenceCenter.
simon.cooper@marriott.com - Simon Cooper, Divisional President
thomas.marder@marriott.com — Thomas Marder, unsure of position or current status at the company.
Give the people at the specific hotel grief as well, so they can report the feedback to corporate HQ second-hand.
Here’s a good email address to send your opinions to: investorrelations@marriott.com
Want to drive Marriott into corporate insanity? Just claim that they’re being RACIST for implying that Muslims are more violent than other groups.
Send those emails. Act like a liberal or a Muslim. Say you areoutraged that Marriott thinks Muslims are violent and bases their policy on their racist attitudes.
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La Shawn:
Where is the NAACP to attack Marriott?
A while ago, a hotel was sued for shutting down rather than host a “Black Student’s Week” where much damage had occurred in the past from similar events.
Were they implying that Blacks were more violent than others?
If you have a Marriott Rewards number, I suggest you use it in all communications with them.
I’ll refer to a principle articulated by the Independent Conservative in a previous thread:
A private institution that the public can’t control. Oh the agony of it all.
I agree with the boycott, but lets be clear.
The fight is with CAIR.
Suppose CAIR decides to organize against Barnes and Noble to stop them from stocking books that present “unfavorable” views of Islam. As always, in such cases, it is the clerk and the shift manager who are on the front line and must deal with the screaming loonies. The real management is on the 18th floor in a place far, far away where they bunker down with lawyers, consultants and their own egos.
Marriott has proceeded ham-handedly in this. They are being “outed” for their largely small-minded decision process. Good.
But understand, Marriott is completely correct in assuming that they will encounter far greater grief by confronting or irritating CAIR supporters than nearly anyone else on the horizon.
There is an excitable CAIR contingent in this country which so far has not broken out into the activities we have witnessed in London and throughout France.
You can not appease these people, because they have a radical agenda. Neither can you ignore them.
“A private institution that the public can’t control. Oh the agony of it all.” -says Bleacher Dave.
Marriott is not a private instution by any definition economic, social or governmental.
Marriott is a publicly held business entity which can rise or fall just like any other such as ATT, Xerox, Polaroid, Studebaker. I mention those, because they were all giants that lost their public.
Oh, the agony of the reality.
I was about to send a message to Marriott (platinum member too) and followed the link above to the People’s Truth Forum site to get more information.
Unfortunately, there is no warning of some very graphical and shocking photos on their front page. I was in the Army and have seen dead bodies in real life, so I have a tough enough stomach. But to show up front the picture of one of the girls butchered in Indonesia/Malaysia without warning is excessive. I am glad I was not doing this at home with one of my children nearby.
Perhaps I can understand a little better that particular hotel’s concerns on PTF. However, the CAIR decision is still wrong of them. I will send them my opinion on hosting that group, but won’t push them on PTF.
There is a clear difference, even objectively, in hosting a political conference and holding a celebratory dinner. A symposium is necessarily controversial, and is probably granted closer scrutiny than an Annual Dinner.
The reality is, Marriot likely uses an objective standard in determining what they allow and do not allow. They probably grant a lot more leeway as far as an organization (even on as openly hostile as CAIR) is concerned when they are holdin an event, than they do when there is a potentially volatile political event being held. A symposium may go on for days, and as such the protests would go on for days, interrupting and perhaps effectively destroying the Marriots ability to cater to its regular customers in those particular days. A banquet is over in a few hours, unlikely to require extra security, and would not interfere in the least with guests. If I were simply looking at these two events as “Events” and not through a poltical lens, I would make a similar decision.
Marriot is a private corporation, and as such, is able to do this. Boycott them, if you must, but get all of your information first. Find out Marriots actual intent, find out how they determine what events are registered before you accuse them of being pro-Muslim.
Hmmmmm…please tell me The Hampton Inn doesn’t engage in this kind of thing because I am booking a weekend stay at a hotel in Virginia in January. Either that I am going to have to book in a hotel in a nearby town. I’ve been hired to sing at a party and I would rather worry about my voice and remembering words than worrying about where I am going to sleep at night.
The Marriott’s kowtowing to CAIR, and its discrimination against the People’s Truth Forum seems to me to be all of a piece with its Scrooge-like behavior in San Francisco on October 18, 1989. On that date the Loma Prieta earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay Area, resulting in much damage. Of most immediate local concern (more even than the postponement of the World Series) was the collapse of a section of the Oakland Bay Bridge, stranding many thousands of commuters in San Francisco. Among those stranded were my wife and me.
By coincidence October 18, 1989 also marked the opening of the San Francisco Marriott Hotel. For months before its opening Herb Caen, the universally read San Francisco columnist, had derided the hotel as the “Jukebox Marriott.†My wife and I had no idea when we would be able to get out of the City, so we decided to spend the night in San Francisco. We looked for a hotel. I thought, What a lucky break for the Marriott! Instead of being laughed at, they can now become a part of San Francisco lore, opening on the day of the big earthquake, providing shelter to a great many of the stranded commuters.
Alas, when we got there, the Marriott had locked their doors. They wouldn’t let anybody in unless they already had a doorkey to a room at the Marriott. I suppose it might have cost them a few extra bucks, with perhaps some overtime and extra help. Fortunately other hotels in the City were far more hospitable, trying to make people comfortable while the hotel waited to see how many no-shows they had as a result of the quake.
Alas, the Marriott bean-counters really blew it. I see they haven’t changed.
John Judge
Alameda, CA
Whats MARRIOTS doing showing this anyway just look at PROCTOR and GAMBLE with their cresent moon logo
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