Best Buy Advertisement with a Muslim Holiday Greeting -Truth!

Best Buy Advertisement with a Muslim Holiday Greeting -Truth!

Summary of the eRumor:
A forwarded email with an image of a Thanksgiving sale ad for the consumer electronics store Best Buy. At the bottom of the ad is a greeting for the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday. Some versions of this email call for a boycott of Best Buy because they are ignoring the mention of Christmas.

The Truth:
The November 2009 sales ad was real and did include a "Happy Eid al-Adha" greeting for the Muslim festival of sacrifice.

It appears as if Best Buy is being inclusive in December 2009 ads by wishing readers holiday greetings for Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanza. Below are clips from a sales ad we received on December 12, 2009:

updated 12/13/09

A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet:

Version 1:

TAKE A GOOD LOOK...THE MUSLIM GREETING IS CIRCLED IN RED. WHERE IS "MERRY CHRISTMAS"?!!!

Version 2:

TO BEST BUY CORPORATE:

Our family in the past 15 or so years have spent THOUSANDS of our hard earned DOLLARS at your stores in Memphis, Tennessee. camcorders (2), computers both desktop (2) and laptops( 3) audio systems, surround sound system (1) and HAD PLANNED to buy a laptop for my wife this CHRISTMAS, but since you choose to eliminate MERRY CHRISTMAS from your advertising, and showing wishes to the Muslim holiday instead, we will NEVER darken your doors again. I am emailing this to people on my contact list who are CHRISTIANS and asking them to do the same.

Have a Happy and Holy Merry Christmas!!

TAKE A GOOD LOOK...THE MUSLIM GREETING IS CIRCLED IN RED. WHERE IS "MERRY CHRISTMAS?"

I'll skip Christmas shopping at Best Buy