I was thinking today about the demonstrations throughout much of the Muslim world in relation to many companies outlets being vandalized in the process. And I could sort of hear the owner's conversations with the parent company which might go something like this: "It wasn't our fault that this happened. We hired guards but even they were overcome by the rioters. It wasn't our fault." And I can hear back from the parent company something like: "Well. This area appears to be too dangerous for us to open up any new outlets because Lloyd's of London and AIG will no longer insure for this area. So, we're sorry you no longer have an outlet of ours."
Whenever fundamentalism of any religion begins to harm big businesses they have no problem at all of redirecting their resources to more profitable and insurable areas.
I was thinking of one of the one of the first companies that came to here in the new world and I think it was called the "Hudson Bay Trading company" that bought pelts from native American and wild European trappers and brought them back to Europe and assembled them as coats and hats for the very rich. Even then that company had to allow for people of a different religion "Native Americans" having a different point of view in regard to everything and that was a part of that early business model.
So, unfortunately the demonstrations likely will first have the effect of making those international storefronts uninsurable which will prevent them from being reopened after being damaged or destroyed by rioters and looters. So, once again Big Business only really can operate within a Secular environment worldwide. So, even though locally in international countries there might even be prayer groups of whatever the local religion or religions might be right there at say lunchtime within that facility, still on an international level big businesses must be in the end secular and not religious based simply because of the number of different religions at different locations around the world which might be at odds with one another.
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