RE: Pardon me for being stupid, but I don’t understand the first bus ad. Why is physical fitness treated the same way the other ads treat things like killing Jews?
Here’s the background on the bus ad in question:
Atlas Exclusive: Robert Spencer: Jihad with a Human Face - http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/12/atlas-exclusive-robert-spencer-jihad-with-a-human-face.html
Pamela Geller has described the new #MyJihad ad campaign from by the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as an “insult to our intelligence,” and that it certainly is. In one of the CAIR ads, a hijabbed woman lifts a barbell while explaining, “My Jihad is to stay fit despite my busy schedule.”
The whole endeavor is reminiscent of Alexander Dubcek’s “Socialism with a human face.” In Communist Czechoslavakia in 1968, Dubcek limited the power of the secret police and relaxed restrictions on speech; but when the Czechs got too much of a taste for freedom, the Soviet tanks rolled in to remind them of just how human the face of socialism really was.
And now Hamas-linked CAIR is trying to paint a human face on the Islamic doctrine that has caused untold suffering for human beings worldwide for fourteen centuries, and continues to do so today. The leading Islamic supremacist advocacy group in the U.S., treated as a reputable authority by the mainstream media, as well as politicians and law enforcement officials around the country, is trying to manipulate Americans into thinking that because some Muslims think of jihad in benign, peaceful ways, therefore the ones who think of it in its traditional Islamic sense, as a divine command to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers, somehow don’t matter and are unworthy of attention.
(More at the source.)
Ah, now the whole thing makes a lot more sense. Many thanks to Perseverando and tanknetter for this information about the context!