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US Muslim campaign to foster understanding Islam
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 2003-02-17
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=10334