Anti-Muslim Ads Offend Just About Everyone In San Francisco
Anti-Muslim ads, including one reading “killing Jews is worship,” spark controversy. Despite public outcry, city officials say the ads will stay up.
1. Ads on the side of 10 San Francisco buses with quotes attributed to terrorists have drawn criticism from city and local Muslim leaders.
2. The quotes in the ads include language like “killing Jews is worship” and “mosques are our barracks.”
3. They were put up by American Freedom Defense Initiative, a group that also protested the “Ground Zero mosque.”
4. The ads cost $5,000 and will stay up for one month, according to ABC 7, and they include a disclaimer that they are paid advertisements.
5. The group has also run ads in Washington, D.C.
7. City officials said they disagree with the ads, but they will not try to take them down. American Freedom Defense successfully sued New York City to place similar ads in subways, and San Francisco authorities want to avoid the legal battle.
8. The public transportation company in San Franciso, however, will use the money American Freedom Defense paid for the ads to fund studies on the effects of discrimination on the Muslim community.
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- ireannl thinks Anti-Muslim Ads Offend Just About Eve... is Trashy, WTF & Fail
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levibenghazis 2 months agoWAY TO GO, American Freedom Defense Initiative!! Right on. Call things by their name. You will have those who throw stones (probably moslems, lol), because, in a world of lies, the truth is considered a crime.
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- SushiKahn thinks Anti-Muslim Ads Offend Just About Eve... is Win
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SushiKahn 2 months agoFirst let me start by calling Hunter Schwartz an anti-Muslim bigot. These ads are “anti-Muslim” only to those that think that terrorists like Bin Laden or Hamas represent all Muslims. Second, I would like to say that I think Pam Gellar is almost always shrill, boneheaded, and bigoted in what she sees as her struggle against violent Jihadis. These ads are the sole exception. Here she is showing, in the words of the terrorists themselves, that their inspiration for their blood lust comes from their understanding of this religion, Islam. These guys repeatedly tell us that Islam calls them to wage war against the Infidel. Now all those “moderate” Muslims that are getting offended at Pam Gellar should really be offended at the terrorists for perverting their religion and putting a bad face on it. That they refuse to call out the people that are making a bad name for Islam and instead point their anger at this infidel Pam Gellar, tells me exactly how they feel about these statements. Groups like CAIR aren’t offended at Hamas for saying killing Jews is worship, they’re offended at Pam Gellar for exposing this hatred to regular citizens in San Francisco and elsewhere that may not be paying attention to groups like MEMRI which daily expose the violent racism that is being preached in the Muslim world. Just yesterday we saw the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (the so-called moderates) condemn a draft of the UN’s Violence Against Women convention as a violation of “Islamic principles.” They condemned laws and conventions that would grant women and gays equality, that would prevent spousal rape, and that would allow women and girls to choose their own sex partners as being against Islam. Every Muslim in America should’ve been out in the streets with “not in our name” banners. The silence is suggestive of acquiescence to the Muslim Brotherhood’s definition of Islam. Moderate Christians are rightly offended by Westboro Church members and not at the media that exposes their bigotry. Moderate Jews are offended by fundamentalists like Ovadia Yosef, not the people who report his statements (and unlike CAIR, the ADL publicly and loudly condemned his bigotry). Don’t shoot the messenger. That Pam Gellar was able to find so many hateful messages to put in ads should be offensive to everyone regardless of their religion or lack their of. That 2/5 of the ads depicted by Buzzfeed are quoting AMERICAN CITIZENS, and another is quoting the leader of NATO ally Turkey is a stark reminder of how pervasive this bigotry is in the Muslim world. The offense should be directed at these people that are the public face of Islam and at the “moderate” Muslim community for not stating unequivocally that holy war against the Infidel has no part in Islam. Unfortunately, the moderate Muslims are terrified of radical Muslims, and condemning Pam Gellar emboldens the radicals and cows the moderates. Shame on you!
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- LaLaLisa thinks Anti-Muslim Ads Offend Just About Eve... is LOL & Win
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- Nilay311 Anti-Muslim Ads Offend Just About Eve... and thinks it’s Trashy, Fail & WTF
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andrewprestona 2 months agoDoes this group realize that not every Islamist is a radical like those portrayed in these ads? That’s like lumping every Christian in with Westboro Baptist Church. So much fail in one campaign …
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- andrewprestona Anti-Muslim Ads Offend Just About Eve... and thinks it’s OMG & WTF
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Jen T 2 months ago
The #MyJihad campaign states, “the purpose of the campaign is to bring forth the mainstream majority moderate voice that is often squeezed out between two extremes.” Their website (myjihad.org) features ads that show this perspective and not just the ones that express the views of extremists. This article shows only the ads that quote violent extremists, while the point of these ads is to show that jihad is not what the general public thinks that it is.
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- chEEkiD Anti-Muslim Ads Offend Just About Eve...
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Jen T 2 months ago
The #MyJihad campaign states, “the purpose of the campaign is to bring forth the mainstream majority moderate voice that is often squeezed out between two extremes.” Their website (myjihad.org) features ads that show this perspective and not just the ones that express the views of extremists. This article shows only the ads that quote violent extremists, while the point of these ads is to show that jihad is not what the general public thinks that it is.
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