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| US Muslim campaign to foster understanding Islam |
| 2003-02-17 |
| Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today announced it will launch a year-long "Islam in America" advertising campaign designed to foster greater understanding of Islam and to counter what the group says is a rising tide of anti-Muslim rhetoric in the United States. That looks like two antithetical goals. The more people understand Islamism, the less they like it... The campaign will kick off with an ad, headlined "We're All Americans," in the New York Times editorial page on Sunday, February 16th. That ad features images of an African-American girl, an Asian man and another man of European heritage, and asks the question: "Which one of us is a Muslim?" The response: "We all are...we're American Muslims." Hey, show some pictures of cannon fodder! That'd be pretty neat. Maybe you could ask, "Which one of us slaughtered the Hindoo pilgrims?" and "Which one of us blew up the Jews in the pizzaria?" Or how about, "Which one of us flew the plane into the WTC?" CAIR's weekly ads, each explaining one aspect of Islam, will be distributed to Muslim communities around American for placement in local newspapers. As each ad is published in the New York Times, it will be available on a web site, www.americanmuslims.info, specifically designed to promote the campaign. "Without accurate and balanced information about mainstream Islam and Muslims, ordinary Americans are vulnerable to the purveyors of hate, in this country and around the world, who seek a perpetual religious and civilizational conflict," said CAIR Board Chairman Omar Ahmad. Without an explicit admission that a large element of the Islamic world wants to see us infidels dead, our wives and daughters in their harems, and our children bowing down toward Mecca, and a plan to do something about it, I don't even want a postcard from CAIR. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #5 I'm eagerly waiting to see the Photoshopped version of the NY Times ad, with the faces of the 911 hijackers substituted. |
| Posted by: Tresho 2003-02-18 00:34:56 |
| #4 You're an American Muslim. All over the world, your co-religionists are committing all murders and all sorts of other atrocities and using your holy book to justify their acts. People who called themselves good Muslims flew airplanes into New York skyscrapers and killed 3,000 people. And lots of other people who call themselves good Muslims want to kill every American they encounter. You've got some money in the bank. One would think that you'd spend it on a world-wide ad campaign to tell those foreign Muslims how they are perverting the teachings of Mohammed and destroying Islam in the minds of the West. But if you're CAIR, you spend it on an ad campaign in America telling Americans, who lots and lots of foreign Muslims would like to kill, what jim dandy people Muslims are. CAIR has got to be the most tone-deaf group of people in existence. |
| Posted by: Christopher Johnson 2003-02-17 22:29:04 |
| #3 "...it will launch a year-long " "We're All Americans," Yeah? Institute the draft and we'll see who the real Americans are. |
| Posted by: RW 2003-02-17 16:53:05 |
| #2 For some perspective on CAIR, may I refer readers to www.danielpipes.org. CAIR has been attacking Daniel Pipes for his publications(including: Militant Islam Reaches America, a must-read). Daniel Pipes exposes CAIR - its founders and funders. Don't be an ostrich. Check it out! |
| Posted by: Seattlite 2003-02-17 16:17:48 |
| #1 CAIR must have gotten another big grant from a fat cat in soddy arabia. However, the donors probably don't realize that CAIR has outlived its usefulness as apologists for Islam. |
| Posted by: mhw 2003-02-17 14:50:13 |