As posted on earlier on this blog, Miller had been advertising in some extremely sacreligious ways. Due to an intense boycott, especially in the Archdiocese of Detroit, the brewer has recently pledged never to support events that insult and offend religious sensibilities again.
Chaldean "party"store owners of Detroit to put some force into the boycott by not selling any Miller beer at their 2,000 locations (which comprise about 90% of Detroit's total party store market). They were inspired by the fellow Chaldeans in Iraq.
"Our religion is important for us. I told our people Sunday (Oct. 28), 'Look how it is in Iraq, with all the pressure on them, not one (Chaldean) family has changed their religion. And here we are in the United States, and someone is mocking our religion, and we are going to do nothing?' I told them that if they support someone who is supporting such activities, it is just as if they were doing those activities too," Bishop Ibrahim, the Chaldean Bishop for the Eastern half of the U.S., said.
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