EOHR condemns the racist trends against Islam in the American media.

  EOHR expresses its extreme condemnation of the racist trends of American media and press,  which embodied hatred feelings against Muslims and Arabs. In this regard, the information included in the last press release of the Council on American- Islamic Relations (CAIR) indicated a provocative insulting cartoon published by Tallahassee Democrat newspaper in the state of Florida. The famous cartoonist Doug Marlette depicted a man as the prophet Mohammed, showing him driving a nuclear bomb-laden truck similar to the one used by Timothy McVeigh in the 1995 Oklahoma bombing. The cartoon was headlined” What Would Mohammed Drive?”

Noteworthy is that CAIR has recently protested some works that hurt the feelings of Christians; a commercial in which the Jesus was depicted in an improper way.

 EOHR casts its vote along with the vote of CAIR to call upon an urgent apology for this racist defamatory cartoon which hurt the feelings of Muslims inside and outside America. EOHR affirms the necessity of the cessation of all racist practices in the American, western or any other media. Such practices would hatred feelings and would threaten the peaceful climate among different religions and would hinder the effort exerted to create a constructive dialogue among various cultures.     

http://cagle.slate.msn.com/politicalcartoons/PCcartoons/marlette.asp

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