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German Doctor Refuses Treating Americans, British

Calling for Coca Cola boycott

RENDSBURG, Germany, March 28 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - “I do not treat Americans, British, or their sympathizers,” is a sign on the wall of a German doctor’s clinic in Rendsburg, Germany. The German physician, by so doing, is expressing his protest at the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

Dermatologist Eberhard Hoffmann, whose practice is in the northern town of Rendsburg, said "this war has no legitimacy. There is no popular majority for it," according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Hoffmann’s anti-invasion sign prompted a warning from German medical authorities.

Medical authorities in Schleswig-Holsten state have urged Hoffmann to take down the sign. Meanwhile, they has lodged a complaint with state prosecutors.

As the bombs and missiles kept falling on the Iraqi cities, resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties and heartbreaking images of human suffering, Fappio Angilly, owner of “Austria” restaurant in the German capital, Berlin, decided to stop offering (U.S.) Coca Cola products to his customers.

Angilly’s decision is not a unilateral on though. Several French restaurants in Hamburg took the same stance against all U.S. products.

While acknowledging his boycott move alone may not be effective, Angilly added, “Should the owners of the 2000 restaurants in Hamburg make the same decision, this will sure be effective.

“My decision is a political one to protest that illegal invasion and to hit back at calls to boycott French products in the U.S.”.

The boycott campaign in Germany is attracting wide media coverage and is sure to play its toll on the boycotted products, on the one hand, and to give a great push to local German products, on the other.

A German soft drink brand, for years limited to the Cologne area restaurants where it stemmed, is now available throughout other cities and sold as “the season’s politically-appropriate drink”.

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