{"id":1110286,"date":"2021-12-11T22:43:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T03:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1110286"},"modified":"2021-12-11T22:43:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T03:43:31","slug":"exclusive-sam-brownback-calls-on-woke-corporations-to-pull-advertising-dollars-out-of-beijing-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-sam-brownback-calls-on-woke-corporations-to-pull-advertising-dollars-out-of-beijing-winter-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Sam Brownback Calls on Woke Corporations to Pull Advertising Dollars Out of Beijing Winter Olympics\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-sam-brownback-calls-on-woke-corporations-to-pull-advertising-dollars-out-of-beijing-winter-olympics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1110286&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Sam Brownback, former U.S. Senator, Kansas Governor, and U.S. Ambassador for international religious freedom, appeared on&nbsp;<em>Breitbart News Saturday<\/em>&nbsp;and called on woke corporations like Coca-Cola and AirBnb to pull their advertising dollars out of the Beijing Winter Olympics amid China\u2019s numerous human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>Breitbart News Saturday&nbsp;<\/em>host Matthew Boyle opened the show noting that Friday, December 10, was the United Nation\u2019s annual Human Rights Day. He asked the former Ambassador to lay out China\u2019s human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat they started against the Tibetan Buddhists, they perfected against the Uighur Muslims. and they got a million of them in concentration camps,\u201d Brownback said. \u201cThey have a high tech police state for everybody else. And they\u2019re persecuting them and trying to really drive their faith out.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve done that, as I say against the Buddhists, they\u2019re doing it now also against house church Christians, destroying the churches locking people up. They go against human rights lawyers, they are at war with faith, all faiths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brownback warned that China wants its religious freedom violations replicated by other authoritarian regimes worldwide. \u201c80 percent of the world lives in a religiously restricted, heavily restricted atmosphere. And China\u2019s leading the way on how to do it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11425387\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"42\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sam-Brownback.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11425387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sam-Brownback.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Brownback, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, speaks to journalists in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. Pakistan has &quot;a desire to change&quot; its ways and be removed from an American blacklist of countries that infringe religious freedoms, Brownback said Sunday on a tour of a Mideast long riven by faith. (AP Photo\/Jon Gambrell)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Brownback, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, speaks to journalists in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. Pakistan has \u201ca desire to change\u201d its ways and be removed from an American blacklist of countries that infringe religious freedoms, Brownback said Sunday on a tour of a Mideast long riven by faith. (AP Photo\/Jon Gambrell)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Brownback explained that the Uighur Muslim population in China is under constant surveillance that impacts their day-to-day lives in what he calls a \u201cwar on faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they don\u2019t like what you\u2019re doing, they give you a low social credit score so you can\u2019t travel. You can\u2019t get into the apartment complexes or the schools that you want to get into, can\u2019t name your child Muhammad, you can\u2019t fast during Ramadan. It\u2019s really basically to try to drive the faith out of the people. And that\u2019s why I call it a war on faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Brownback is optimistic in this war on faith because \u201cultimately, a person\u2019s soul will win out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boyle then mentioned President Joe Biden\u2019s lackluster \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d of the Beijing Winter Olympics and asked Brownback what the United States should do to send a message to the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhat a number of us called for this week was an advertiser\u2019s boycott of the Olympics. Hold the Western companies\u2019 advertising dollars,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoca Cola, Airbnb pull your dollars if the Chinese Communist Party won\u2019t announce a date for the closing of these concentration camps, then pull your advertising dollars so that kind of the Chinese Communists are not enriched by the Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then I hope our athletes will be as brave as [Enes] Kanter Freedom is, and will walk in the Olympic Stadium with pictures of people that are being held because they\u2019re religious dissidents or Hong Kong activists.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Brownback suggested that it should be the American athletes who turn the Olympic Games \u201cinto an embarrassment for the Chinese Communist Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boyle mentioned the woke chief executives of top companies and asked Brownback if now is the time for the American people to consider a boycott of certain companies. Notably, Boyle called out Coca-Cola for advertising in China despite&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/31\/business\/delta-coca-cola-georgia-voting-law.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attempting<\/a>&nbsp;to punish Georgia for passing election integrity laws.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16158926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"44\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/coke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16158926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/coke.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coca-Cola President and CEO James Quincey attends a press conference with International Olympic Committee (IOC) president and China Mengniu Dairy CEO and Executive Director, as part of the 134th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the SwissTech Convention Centre in Lausanne, on June 24, 2019. \u2013 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland, will elect in a final vote on June 24, 2019 the host city for the 2026 Winter Olympics. The two remaining host cities in the election process are Stockholm-Are, Sweden, and MilanCortina d\u2019Ampezzo, Italy. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI \/ AFP) (Photo credit should read FABRICE COFFRINI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt is absolutely ludicrous, that you would stand up on the All Star game in Georgia to move it to Denver, and then not stand up to the Chinese that are conducting a genocide at this very time,\u201d said Brownback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, really just have two seconds of thought about what you\u2019re doing and the inconsistency of that. So I would hope Americans would put pressure on these companies that are advertising in these Olympics, and it\u2019s not too late,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s so special about China that you can\u2019t stand up to China?\u201d he asked. \u201cYes, it\u2019s a big market. But it says your money speaks louder than your human rights and the dignity of these individuals that have been locked up simply for peacefully practicing their faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brownback then talked about the troubles that Christians and Catholics currently face in China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey face some of the worst persecution that they\u2019ve seen since the Cultural Revolution under Mao and this time, it\u2019s, it\u2019s both physical and it\u2019s high tech ,so their churches get destroyed, their pastors get locked up,\u201d he said. \u201cBut then also the people get surveillance on them with this pervasive nature of cameras, artificial intelligence systems, limiting people on social credit scores.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brownback warned that things could worsen once China finalizes its move to digital currency. \u201cAnd once they get control of the currency, then they can shut off all the resources, all the money that you have, they can, by a flip of a switch because they don\u2019t like you or what you stand for ,what you practice, they can shut it off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conversation switched gears from China to Afghanistan after Boyle brought up reported human rights violations that have occurred since Biden\u2019s disastrous withdrawal of American troops from the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re going to see a genocide of religious minorities in Afghanistan. This will include Shia Muslims, but it\u2019ll be Christians and it\u2019ll be Bahais,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd anybody that doesn\u2019t hone to the line of the Taliban or ISIS, on their view of Islam, many Muslims, they\u2019re just they\u2019re slaughtering them. They\u2019re starving them to death.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18232186\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Taliban-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18232186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Taliban-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Taliban fighters stand guard near the venue of an open-air rally in a field on the outskirts of Kabul on October 3, 2021, as the Taliban supporters and senior figures held their first mass rally in a show of strength as they consolidate their rule of Afghanistan. (Hoshang Hashimi\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taliban fighters stand guard near the venue of an open-air rally in a field on the outskirts of Kabul on October 3, 2021, as the Taliban supporters and senior figures held their first mass rally in a show of strength as they consolidate their rule of Afghanistan. (Hoshang Hashimi\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Brownback said Biden\u2019s withdrawal from Afghanistan was \u201cone of the most disgraceful things our country has done in the last several decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe left our people there on the battlefield and pulled out. And these are people that had worked with us and helped us and we left them, and we\u2019re still trying to get people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>To end the interview, Boyle asked Brownback what he thought about Secretary of State Antony Blinken\u2019s decision last month to&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/us-removes-nigeria-religious-freedom-list-ahead-blinken-visit-2021-11-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remove<\/a>&nbsp;Nigeria from a religious freedom watchlist.<\/p>\n<p>Brownback criticized the bureaucracy for being afraid to stand up to the militant Islamic terrorist sect of Northern Nigeria that is trying to build the \u201cnext caliphate.\u201d He also faulted the administration for being dishonest about the conflict and not recognizing it is rooted in a faith-based conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re a militant Islamic fundamentalist, religion has everything to do with it,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd we do no service by denying that and just say, \u2018no, climate change or it is farmer-herder conflicts\u2019 and it is not. At its heart, this is a religious division.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you got to call evil by its own name, and you got to speak about it. So that people know what you\u2019re fighting for. We\u2019re fighting for religious freedom, for people\u2019s rights to be able to do with their own soul what they see fit,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd you get killed for that in Nigeria, and we should stand up to these radical Nigerian groups and push the Nigerian government for justice and protection for all people in their country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Breitbart News Saturday airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Eastern.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Brownback, former U.S. Senator, Kansas Governor, and U.S. Ambassador for international religious freedom, appeared on\u00a0Breitbart News Saturday\u00a0and called on woke corporations like Coca-Cola and AirBnb to pull their advertising &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1110286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}