Alrighty then, suit yourselves! Either way we're gonna teach you!
...."Everyone deserves to know what Islam is all about" is the slogan of a $48,000 ad campaign that will be running during the the (holy) month of September (11th) on New York subways in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
How very special!
Better yet, may I suggest relocating the Muslim pilgrimage from Mecca to the holy Ground Zero next year? I mean why not? Who says we can't keep on expanding? The sky is the limit!
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Ads promoting Islam are to be placed on New York subway cars in September, but a U.S. congressman finds people sponsoring the messages unacceptable.
"I have no problem with the ad itself, but I have a very, very real problem with those behind it," Rep. Peter King, a New York Republican, said Tuesday. He is urging the Metropolitan Transit Authority to reject the ads.
The campaign is to feature ads on 1,000 of the subway system's roughly 6,200 cars. The main sponsor is a grass-roots organization, Islamic Circle of North America.
The ads, simple black-and-white panels, will feature key words or phrases about Islam on one side of the panel such as "Head Scarf?" or "Prophet Muhammad?" and the words "You deserve to know" along with the Web site address WhyIslam.org on the other side.
"The idea is to evoke certain thoughts in the mindset of the person who is looking at the ads and get them to a point where they can reflect upon certain words that one could define as hot words or keywords that get thrown around a lot but are not necessarily defined in the most proper context," said New York University's Imam Khalid Latif, a cleric who is promoting the project in a YouTube video created by the Islamic Circle.
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