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Related: About this forumShocking New York mosque arson attack caught on camera
This is from ITN in the U.K. I've yet to see it on American (or Canadian) television.
Why?
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)show atrocities ,they can only make us fear them.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)applegrove
(118,880 posts)Survivoreesta
(221 posts)No difference NO DIFFERENCE from attacking a synagogue! HATE is HATE!
DeathToTheOil
(1,124 posts)This really hasn't gotten as much coverage as it merits.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)Violet_Crumble
(35,980 posts)The recent decision by Lowe's Home Improvement company to pull ads from the reality TV show All-American Muslim caps a very successful year for the growing anti-Muslim movement in the United States.
So successful, in fact, that anti-mosque protests, anti-Shariah laws, and anti-Muslim hate crimes could easily fill any list of top five religion stories in 2011.
The withdrawal of Lowe's from sponsoring a show about the daily life of five American Muslim families was apparently in response to objections to the program from a conservative Christian group called the Florida Family Association.
Wittingly or unwittingly, Lowe's action re-enforces the message anti-Muslim groups have been propagating for years: Portraying Muslims as ordinary Americans is problematic, if not wrong and dangerous, because it may lull the rest of us into ignoring the stealth threat of Islam and Muslims to the freedom and security of the United States.
Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/community/northwest/news/article/Religion-story-of-the-year-anti-Muslim-bigotry-2439214.php#ixzz1iUR8Gipq