Civil War on the Left, Part 42: Hot Water at Starbucks

Starbucks thinks of itself as a fully progressive company. Which is what makes this story all schadenfreudey to the max:

Muslims Are Boycotting Starbucks Over the Company’s Pro-LGBT Stance

Parkasa, a hard-line Muslim group in Malaysia that touts around 700,000 members, is joining another Muslim group in Indonesia, Muhammadiyah, in calling for the boycott of Starbucks.

Almost 30 million people belong to Muhammadiyah, the second-largest mainstream Muslim organization in Indonesia. They have denounced the popular coffee chain over the company’s former chief executive’s past praise for the gay community. Both organizations want Starbucks’ operating license to be revoked because the stance goes against Islamic teachings.

“Our objection is because they are promoting something that is against the human instinct, against human behavior and against religion. That’s why we are against it,” Amini Amir Abdullah, head of Perkasa’s Islamic affairs bureau, stated to Reuters in an interview earlier this week. Homosexuality goes against the country’s constitution.

Since for the Progressive mind Muslims are an oppressed people, whatever will Starbucks do?

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