by Bill Weimberg
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Aug. 9 approved a bus advertisement protesting the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” (which, as we have pointed out, is neither at Ground Zero nor a mosque). AP writes that the ads depict “a plane flying toward the World Trade Center’s towers as they burn along with a rendering of the proposed mosque near Ground Zero.” But we question whether the ad’s depiction of the “proposed mosque” (sic) is accurate. An image of the ad at MSNBC shows a tall building inlaid with a giant star-and-crescent, whereas a rendering of the proposed Cordoba House (actually an ecumenical community center, now dubbed Park51 for its address on Park Place) on the progressive Jewish website Tikkun Olam shows it without the star and crescent. Poking around on the site of the Cordoba Initiative, the group behind the project, we were unable to find a depiction. The ad’s caption reads “WTC Mega Mosque—Why There?” The ad was produced by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, whose website banner (in vivid contrast to pacifistic imagery at the Cordoba Initiative site) features an image of a charging soldier with an assault rifle below an American flag. CONTINUE LEYENDO (Continue reading) Islamophobic propaganda: coming to a bus near you
