New Ad Campaign ‘Islamophobia?’ launched as Global Jihad Violence Grows

The American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) has launched a new ad campaign designed to show the absurdity of the mainstream media focus on “Islamophobia” amid growing jihad violence worldwide. The ad campaign will target New York City, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Miami, Houston, and Jacksonville, FL.

According to AFDI, “The charge of ‘Islamophobia’ is used to intimidate people into thinking there is something wrong with opposing jihad violence. Our ads are designed to increase awareness of the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, and put an end to the denial and willful ignorance about that threat, so that we can adopt effective counter-terror measures based on that realistic appraisal. The Muslim groups that complain most loudly about ‘Islamophobia,’ like Hamas-tied CAIR, have opposed every counter-terror program that has ever been proposed or implemented.”

Atlas Shrugs Pamela Geller notes:

The ad lists some of the recent victims of jihad. Those people and preventing others from joining them should be our focus, not the fictional “backlash against Muslims” upon which the media always focuses.

We hope to raise awareness about the need for Muslims in the US not just to denounce ISIS, but to teach young Muslims why this understanding of Islam is wrong and must be rejected.

If the Islamic State is not Islamic, what is it? How did this misunderstanding of Islam become so widespread? Why are so many more US and UK Muslims than ever joined al Qaeda joining the Islamic State?

And while Muslims in the US condemn the Islamic State, where are they teaching against the ideology that gave rise to it?

Right now, nothing is being done to stop jihad recruiting in US mosques, even as several hundred young Muslims from the US have gone to wage jihad for the Islamic State.

If the moderates really reject extremism, let them show it by instituting genuine programs to teach against the jihadic doctrine.