Ahli Mesyuarat Tingkap

Assalamualaikum

Suddenly I got a new idea last night, when I was lying on my bed.

We know that the US economy is severely stumbling right know and the US gorverment is spending hunred billions to bailout important companies across the states such as banks, insurance companies, car makers etc.

CAR MAKERS

we know that automotive industry is one of the most affected business due to credit crunch crisis lately. for example Nissan need to cut jobs around 1200 (if i'm not mistaken), Honda need to halt UK production until June 2009, Jaguar might need government bailout and the list goes on.

The same thing happen to 3 giant US car makers; GM, Ford and Chrysler.

I believe this can be used as an ultimate weapon if president elect Barack Obama won't change their policy towrads GAZA/Palestine conflict.

I believe if we carry out massive boycott campaign against these 3 car makers, they will colapse and maybe US economy profile too, by god will.

There are loads of reason why we could be successful:

1. US cars are not as good as European or Japanese cars.
2. We can influence Middle East countries and developing countries not to buy US cars. Not to be forgotten, there is quite big population of muslim in Europe especially France.
3. These companies are dying even before we put on any boycott
4. There is nothing addictive in cars. like some people they must drink coca-cola because they addicted to it, some of them must go to Tesco because it is really, really, really cheap, near their house, handy etc, again, some people feels like they can't breath if they don't eat mcdonald once weekly.
4. One car cost about £10 000-50 000, up to 50 000 times more expensive than a bottle of coke maybe, mean one person boycott same to 50 000 peoples boycott on coke. However I would suggest current boycott on Israel-related companies must keep going on.

and finally I enclosed part of Mr Farish Noor's article:

"....In a space of 12 months after the crisis broke out, I had written 2 academicpapers, given 8 talks and took part in six international conference on theissue. Now let me recount one of these conferences in some detail. It was aconference held in an Arab country that was put together by an American-Europeanbusiness planning institute and present at the meeting were CEOs of some of thebiggest players in the capitalist world. I am not at liberty to go into thedetails of the discussions we had due to the Chatham House rules by which weoperated, but let me just say that one CEO in particular was at the helm of oneof the biggest automobile companies in Europe.This is what the CEO of the European car company had to say to me: 33 percent of our exports go to the Arab world, and 15 per cent goes to the developingworld. If a major global boycott of our cars is carried out, we can hold out for6 months before retrenchments begin. After 12 months we close down for good,because we can never recover after such a thing.
Now these were the words of one of the most important CEOs on the planet.Cognisant of the fact that their luxury cars are increasingly bought in Asia andthe Arab world, he knew very well what a boycott of their cars would do. And theman was scared. Terrified in fact.That the CEO of a company as powerful as this could tremble before the prospectof a clientele that exercises their collective will is instructive. I saw thesame with the other CEOs and at all the business meetings I took part in during the 12 months after the Danish cartoon controversy..... "

I'm more than happy to hear from you soon.

Yours sincerely,
Mohd Nubli Fahimi Mustapa
3rd year Medical student
Queen's University Belfast