Posted on 06/12/2014 6:37:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Rabbi in US tells group behind hateful adverts 'Keep the Quran out of it'
It has been posted on many buses in Washington, D.C., for few weeks provoking Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
The ad reads, “Islamic Jew-hatred; It’s in the Quran. Two thirds of all US aid goes to Islamic countries. Stop racism. End all aid to Islamic countries.”
Muslims in the US, supported by several Christians and Jewish leaders, united in their efforts to respond to the ads claiming that it is false that the Quran, holy book for Muslims, encourages Muslims to hate Jews.
They responded by posting another advertisement refuting the original ads placed by a group led by anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller.
“We normally ignore provocation of this nature because she (Geller) has been, along with other organisations, involved in propaganda against Muslims and Islam in the US,” said Nihad Awad, National Executive Director of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations).
But, “when their campaign tried to influence the public opinion with false information, then we have to counter that with accurate information about Islam and Muslims,” Awad added in an interview with Gulf News.
“Therefore, our message that is going on buses (from Wednesday morning) in D.C., is an inclusive, interfaith message. It helps the public learn about the Quran from the Quran itself,” Awad said.
While this particular campaign costs $41,000 (Dh113,888), CAIR has a larger campaign of $157,000, comprising several series to counter the propaganda about Islam in the US.
Also, CAIR plans to re-launch another campaign to distribute copies of Quran translated to English to anybody interested from the public.
Earlier, nearly 80,000 copies were distributed, “so the public has access to authentic formation about Islam,” Awad said.
Asked whether they plan to take another step, Awad replied “in the US, the first amendment (of the constitution) guaranteeing every one the freedom to speak, even to speak hatred. That is one reality we live,” Awad said.
“This is a distortion to facts and exploitation to history,” commented Mohammad Ghuneim, a veteran former Arab-American broadcast journalist on the ad, in an interview with Gulf News.
The ad’s declaration that two-thirds of the US aid go to Islamic countries is not true. Israel is the biggest beneficiary of US aid with nearly $11 billion a year, he said.
As for the picture in the ad of Adolf Hitler sitting next to the late Palestinian religious and revolutionary leader Haj Ameen Al Husseini, Ghuneim commented since “everybody is against Nazism, they are trying to relate Islam to Nazism,”.
Al Husseini, who was the Mufti of Palestine under the British mandate, was one of the main leaders in the Palestinian revolution in the thirties of the last century. Al Husseini was sentenced to death by the British colonial authorities, but managed to escape and travelled to Germany in 1939.
“Al Husseini was not a supporter to Nazism. It (Germany) was the only place he could resort to escaping the British pursuit,” he said.
Awad believes that those behind the provocative ad “are trying to spread false information about Islam and Muslims… These are experts in misinformation so the public will be confused.”
However, many non-Muslims criticised the campaign as hateful and prejudice, including some Jewish religious leaders.
Rabbi Rachel Gartner, board member of the T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights posted a response to the provocative bus ad.
“As an American, I insist on the right to free speech, even when I deplore the message. As a rabbi, I insist on the responsibility to speak out against hateful speech, particularly when it comes from one of our own,” she said in her article posted on the Huffington Post website.
“Ms. Geller, here’s what I have to say. If you have a political statement to make: first , check that it’s not actually hate speech in political garb. Secondly. Keep the Quran out of it. Unless you also want to reference suras like this one (there are many): “Indeed, I, God, sent down the Torah, in which was guidance and light, and the prophets judged by it, as did the rabbis and scholars.” (Quran 5:44). Thirdly, be righteous in the way you engage religious texts -- others’ and our own -- in all contexts.”
I can see it happening with many other religions, but never Islam.
Here you go - top 25 countries receiving US foreign aid.
Courtesy of http://www.dailypaul.com/223171/top-25-recipients-of-us-foreign-aid&sss=1 [quoted below:]
The FIRST figure is $US (in millions) of U.S. TOTAL Economic and Military Money - Fiscal Year 2010.
The SECOND figure is $US millions in Aid received PER PERSON of that country - Fiscal Year 2010 (In US dollars).
Afghanistan = $11,446.80 - $393.08
Pakistan = $2,853.50 - $15.47
Israel = $2,835.80 - $385.62
Iraq = $2,087.90 - $70.37
Egypt = $1,698.90 $21.11
Haiti = $1,408.10 - $145.94
Ethiopia = $981.80 - $11.16
Sudan = $975.90 - $22.21
Colombia = $863.70 - $19.54
Kenya = $818.70 - $20.05
Jordan = $767.10 - $119.72
Mexico = $718.20 - $6.39
Senegal = $702.10 - $56.97
West Bank/Gaza = 693.10 - Not known
South Africa = $567.80 - $11.56
Tanzania = $554.80 - $3.24
Russia = $505.90 - $3.63
Uganda = $487.40 - $14.59
Nigeria = $459.00 - $2.84
Georgia = $437.80 - $95.17
Mozambique = $404.40 - $18.04
Congo (Kinshasa) = $388.90 - $5.57
Indonesia = $338.00 - $1.39
Zambia = $331.80 - $24.65
Kazakhstan = $321.70 - $18.83
By my count, 13 of the 25 are Moslem. I may be off by one or two.
Truth is whatever the imams say it is — namely that which lies to and deceives the infidel, you know, the nazraini — not to be confused with the NASCAR
This is just crazy! I could swear I remember back in the early 80’s, President Reagan went on TV and said he was going to ask Congress to approve $10million in aid for some country (don’t remeber which). Can you just imagine?! 10 million! And asking Congress!?
I guess the LIEberals are going to have to learn their lessons the hard way.
The horror of it is, those of us who can see the error of the LIEberal’s ways will have to suffer, as well.
But not as much, because we see what is coming and are preparing for it.
isn’t there a passage somewhere in the koran thay says that ....rocks will call out to muslime saying that a Jew is hiding behind me.....
Yes. The only good thing about this onslaught of treachery that Obama is putting us thru is that even some stupid liberals can’t even miss it. sure most of them will still blame conservatives, but some of them will get enlightened somehow. And so the scales slowly move to our side.
SO, a call for tolerance of Islam is issued by a member of the Rabbinatrix.
KEWL! She is likely a Deformed, oops make that Reformed Jew.
‘Nuff said about such things.
End all aid to Islamic nations. Yeah. Sounds good to me.
The anti-muslim ads may have been more effective if they had quoted straight out of the queeran.
The ad reads, “Islamic Jew-hatred; It’s in the Quran. Two thirds of all US aid goes to Islamic countries. Stop racism. End all aid to Islamic countries.”The source for this op-ed masq as an article is in the Gulf states.
They “cannot handle the truth.”
Would it surprise them that the real truth is now starting to come out in a unlikely of places: Iraq in the last couple of days.
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Dhimmis = Dummies
Muslims are sworn to convert or kill you.
These are NOT Jehovah’s. Witnesses!!
Consider that stolen, with admiration.
” SO, a call for tolerance of Islam is issued by a member of the Rabbinatrix.”
Consider that stolen, with admiration.”
Enjoy.
;-)
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