CAIR’s campaign will also include a PSA that features interfaith leaders offering an implicit challenge to the Florida church that plans to burn copies of the Qur’an on Sept. 11.
“The stepped-up rhetorical and physical attacks on the American Muslim community and Islam require a positive, proactive response that will help counter the almost hysterical campaign of misinformation by a vocal minority of bigots,” said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad.
“These public service announcements have the potential to reach millions of Americans with a message of religious inclusion and mutual understanding.”
Two of the three PSAs, which will be distributed to television stations nationwide and online through social media sites, feature Muslim first responders to the 9/11 terror attacks, with the theme “9/11 happened to us all.”
The third PSA features Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders describing the “golden rule” as expressed by their respective faiths — and ends with the phrase, “We have more in common than we think.”
Other national American Muslim organizations will take part in the news conference to outline each group’s individual and joint initiatives designed to promote religious freedom.
