The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is planning measures to counter the recently stepped-up anti-Islam campaign in the United States.
In a news conference, CAIR introduced advertisements that will be broadcast on millions of American TVs on September 11, 2010, the ninth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center towers, a Press TV correspondent reported.
“I am a New York City firefighter, and I am a responder to 9/11, and I am a Muslim,” an American Muslim citizen says in one of the ads.
Other first responders to Ground Zero also speak on the ads, which are to correct the Americans' misconception of Islam and American Muslims.
“They're designed to fight back… against the voices of hatred and division, those who are trying to show American Muslims as foreigners,” CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said in the conference.
The group, which represents seven million American Muslims, is also putting out a Muslim Response Guide to advise American Muslims on how to respond to hate crimes and acts of insult and injury.
Muslim groups are also organizing what they call a grassroots Muslim Day of Public Service on September 11 to counter the growing opposition to the construction of mosques, says Imam M. Bray from Muslim American Society.
The latest CAIR efforts come at a time of increased anti-Islam acts in the US.
A Florida church is planning to burn a copy of the Quran on September 11. Arson attacks against mosques are growing and Muslims receive threats and are being attacked because of their faith.
