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The Post has some fun stoking readers’ xenophobia with a story today about an upcoming subway ad campaign promoting Islam during Ramadan. Besides the predictable puns (“Train-ing Day for Jihadists,” “Allah board!” and “G-had train”), the story points to a connection between the “proselytizing” ad campaign and terrorism, an assertion based on a YouTube video intended to raise funds for the "You Deserve to Know" Subway Project.
One of the talking heads in the promotional video is Siraj Wahhaj, an African-American Imam of Al-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn. Wahhaj was named as one of 170 un-indicted co-conspirators in the case against Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind Muslim serving a life sentence for the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Wahhaj was never charged, but did serve as a character witness for Abdel-Rahaman’s defense.
The Post has it that Wahhaj has referred to the FBI and CIA as the "real terrorists" and sermonized that "in time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing, and the only thing that will remain will be Islam.” Yeah, probably not the best choice for a campaign to counter "Islamaphobia." Of course Wahhaj does strike a less inflammatory tone in the Subway Project video, seeking donations by asking viewers to imagine millions of subway riders “seeing the name Mohammad. Imagine them seeing the word Islam. Imagine them seeing the word hijab.”
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Why Islam? Because an illiterate had delusions of grandeur and ripped off not a few lines from the stinking religions called Christianity and Judaism. And same goes for the Mormons.
hijab = cover your western women so theyre not seen nor heard. this is a bad idea. are we in for an avalanche of religious themed ads now from every whackjob brainwashing group?
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Can't we get rid of those Jews for Jesus, while we're at it? I am sick and tired of free speech.
The people handing out the Jews for Jesus flyers are definitely For Jesus, but the ones I've met are not Jewish, not by birth or any other way. Its just a catchy name for a group handing out new testament excerpts...
Where are the Jews for Mohammad?
How about Scientologists for Buzz Lightyear?
I blame this on the Halal chicken and rice fad.
This campaign belongs in Subway sandwich shops. A natural combination for any Muslim, no?
Maybe they should start advertising in SkyMall too....
On July 21st, 2008 When asked about the inclusion of Imam Siraj Wahhaj on the list of 170 unindicted co-conspirators Former US federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy said on CNNs situation room "I think the list is probably an interesting footnote to people. I get asked about it every couple of years when some story or another about Wahhaj comes up. I think the list is a tempest in a teapot."
Tempest in a teapot means "a situation where people get very angry or worried about something that is not important" (According to idioms.Thefreedictionary.Com)
Another day, another dose of hate-bait from Gothamist.
Good campaign. Lots of misunderstandings, many good people with questions, a question line seems like a good idea.
What a sad day for America... People sit by while church and state begin merging, and so do business and state... but some Muslim organization posting ads in the Subway is our outrage of the day and front page news.
By the way folks, the NY Post is a really non-discriminatory publication that clearly cares about the average citizen. That's why, for example, it was necessary for them to publish a photo of an NYU student falling to her death on their front page...
Meanwhile Debbie Almontaser was also a "Jihadist" according the Post, despite the fact that she's seen in the Arab and Muslim communities as a "sellout." Almontaser happily worked for the Board of Ed for years... her son is in the service... and yet the Post had no problem still writing that.
The Post should be ashamed of itself, and those of you who read it should be ashamed as well. I bet if you were to go back and read what the crappy elements of the press (like the Post) wrote/said about Irish and Italians as they immigrated to the US, you might have a different take on this xenophobic crap.
Islam "overtaking" America?
If you think so, then you definitely deserve to sit in the subway and read the add.
The main point of the ad is clearly to dispel Islamophobic tendencies in America. The backlash proves that it is about time Muslims explain their religion, whether we want to read about ti or not is our choice....