New York City Begins Ad Campaign to Muzzle Hateful Speech Towards Muslims
In the wake of terrorist bombings in New York City and New Jersey conducted by an Afghanistan native obsessed with Osama bin Laden, New York City has begun a campaign to chide those targeting Muslims with hateful speech.
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration has a digital ad campaign that features pictures of Muslims with captions that read, “I am Muslim. I am NYC.”
“New Yorkers of all faiths deserve to live safely and free from discrimination. In NYC, it’s illegal to discriminate against or harass someone based on their religion or creed. #IAmMuslimNYC,” the ads proclaim.
A press release said the effort to protect Muslims was necessary to counterbalance recent events.
“Across the country, hateful speech has made Muslim residents the target of misguided attacks and threats, especially in the aftermath of terrorist incidents,” the press release said.
“According to researchers and law enforcement officials, reports of attacks and threats against Muslims have surged nationally, most likely fueled by national and international terrorist attacks and political vitriol,” it added.
The “I Am Muslim” campaign is just the beginning.
Next year, the Commission on Human Rights plans a “city-wide public information and integrated multi-platform marketing campaign on combating xenophobia and embracing religious diversity in New York City.”
“Now more than ever, it is important for every New Yorker to stand united as one city and reject hate and violence,” de Blasio said.
“Bill de Blasio has made it pretty clear he isn’t very interested in aggressively fighting against radical Islam,” commented Andrew Mark Miller on Young Conservatives.
“Nice to see that Bill has his priorities straight. De Blasio is part of the problem,” he added.
“Words aren’t killing people. Radical Islam is,” he concluded.
Readers of The Daily Caller were underwhelmed by the ad campaign.
“BS ad campaigns — none of them are as effective as a terrorist attack in motivating people in the opposite direction. DeBlasio must think that his fellow leftist morons will respond to idiot propaganda. Maybe he’s right about them, but not about anyone with a brain. Nevertheless, he skrews EVERYONE over with his waste of tax money,” wrote Time_4A_Change.
“I swear, de Blasio is the kind of PC clown who, if he’d lived during World War II, would have watched news footage of the Holocaust and thought to himself, “Oh my, that’s just awful. Not the gas chambers — the possibility that because of them, Nazis in America could experience animosity from everyday citizens,” commented a writer using the name Media Bladders. (For more from the author of “New York City Begins Ad Campaign to Muzzle Hateful Speech Towards Muslims” please click HERE)
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