By Liza Veale, KALW Crosscurrents
Earlier this fall, San Francisco Muni buses displayed an ad that may have upset you. Or angered you. Or made you feel threatened. The Muni ad was part of an anti-Islam campaign calling itself the American Freedom Defense Initiative. It was not the first time the campaign’s ads ran on Muni buses, and it probably will not be the last.
There have been several versions of the ads. The most recent one featured before and after pictures. The first is of British-Egyptian amateur rapper, Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, and the quote is “before becoming a jihadist,” it says. The “after” is also Bary, dressed in black, wearing a mask, standing next to a captive, and the quote is “after becoming devout.” The images are underscored with the slogan, “it’s not Islamophobia, it’s Islamorealism.”
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