They'll watch reality shows on TV with mothers whoring out their four year old girls in makeup and lingerie, they'll watch men and women paraded in front of each other in the name of "love", they'll watch quasi-celebrities detail their broken marriages, they'll watch their fellow rednecks fight and claw their way to infamy in ridiculous situations, they'll watch a half-term dimwit governor shoot moose, but when there's a reality show that favorably portrays happy families and their normal lifes, the teabaggers and other idiots go wild!
How dare them Muslims look happy! Now a
campaign has started to pull sponsors from the show.
Christian family group has called for a boycott of advertisers supporting a reality TV show about American Muslims, leading others to call for a boycott of the advertisers who caved to the pressure.
The Learning Channel show, called All-American Muslim, centers on families in Dearborn, Michigan, one of the largest Muslim communities in the United States. A group called the Florida Family Association has attacked the show, calling it "propaganda," that "is attempting to manipulate Americans into ignoring the threat of jihad" by "excluding many Islamic believers whose agenda poses a clear and present danger to liberties." In other words, because the show is about Muslims who aren't terrorists, it's clearly pro-terrorism.
The group is targeting the show's advertisers and claims that 65 of the 67 sponsors it has contacted have pulled their ads, although there is no proof the FFA campaign had any influence. (Some advertisers only bought one week's worth of ads and simply used up their allotment.) Only one company, Lowe's Home Improvment stores, has admitted to pulling its ads because of the trumped-up controversy. Now others are turning their wrath on Lowe's. A state senator in California has called for a boycott of the chain and many others have taken to Facebook and Twitter to denounce them. (The company issued a typical "sorry, you're mad at us" apology, but is not reinstating the ads.)
