{"id":3641,"date":"2014-05-17T05:59:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T05:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2014-05-17T05:59:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T05:59:32","slug":"free-quran-counters-anti-muslim-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/05\/17\/3641\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Qur\u2019an Counters Anti-Muslim Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/quranhadith\/quran1.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>A leading US Muslim advocacy group has handed out free copies of the holy book of Islam, the Noble Qur\u2019an, to anyone who wishes to verify the inaccuracy of a new anti-Muslim bus advertisement by a hat-group in Washington, DC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;We encourage those who view Geller&#8217;s false and inflammatory ads to visit CAIR&#8217;s &#8216;Explore the Quran&#8217; website to request a free copy of the Quran so they can read it for themselves,&#8221; Nihad Awad, National Executive Director of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),\u00a0 said in a statement obtained by OnIslam.net on Thursday, May 15.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Anyone who reads the Quran will discover that it honors Jews and Christians for believing in one God and calls on all believers to live in peace and harmony,&#8221; he added.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The initiative followed the publication of a new anti-Islam ad in Washington DCV buses, sponsored by a hate group led by Pamela Geller.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The ad falsely claims that the Qur\u2019an encourages Muslims to hate Jews.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Her organization, Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA), is designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). SPLC also named Geller as a member of the &#8220;anti-Muslim inner circle.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Geller, who has bragged online that she uses a Qur\u2019an as a doorstop, was the subject of a CAIR &#8220;Islamophobe profile&#8221; documenting the individuals and organizations involved in spreading anti-Muslim bias in the United States.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CAIR also listed her as a member of the &#8220;inner core&#8221; of those promoting anti-Muslim bigotry.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Her group SIOA was recently denied a trademark after an appeals court ruled that the name disparaged Muslims.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Along with handing out free copies of Qur\u2019an, CAIR, the nation&#8217;s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, offered a link to those wishing to obtain a free Quran (www.explorethequran.com\/request-a-quran\/american-public.html).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2012, a broad-based coalition of 127 organizations sent a letter to the Washington Area Metro Transit Authority (WMATA) expressing concern about Geller&#8217;s previous anti-Muslim advertisements.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A CAIR ad placed to counter Geller&#8217;s 2012 campaign featured a verse from the Quran stating: &#8220;<em>Show forgiveness, speak for justice and avoid the ignorant.<\/em>&#8221; (The Holy Quran, 7:199)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>OnIslam<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading US Muslim advocacy group has handed out free copies of the holy book of Islam, the Noble Qur\u2019an, to anyone who wishes to verify the inaccuracy of a new anti-Muslim bus advertisement by a hat-group in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c102-muslim-minorities"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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