(PHILADELPHIA, 9/16/2008) - CAIR is calling on anyone who received the "Obsession" DVD in their newspaper to contact the papers publishers to ask why they believe it is appropriate to profit from anti-Muslim hate.
ACTION REQUESTED: (As always, be firm but POLITE. Hostile comments can and will be used to further defame Islam and Muslims.)
1. LOOK IN THE NEWSPAPER OR ON ITS WEBSITE for appropriate contact information.
2. CONTACT the newsroom, the editorial page and circulation.
Bill Marimow is the Editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. email: bmarimow@phillynews.com.
Letter to the Editor: Inquirer.Letters@phillynews.com or fax to 215-854-4483.OPED: oped@phillynews.com or fax to 215-854-4483.
Call the Philadelphia Inquirer at 215-854-4543
3. ASK WHY the newspaper believed it was appropriate to profit from anti-Muslim hate.
4. ASK WHO PAID for the distribution and how much it cost.
5. ASK WHETHER the newspaper would have distributed anti-Semitic or other racist DVDs.
6. ASK IF the distribution of the DVD in key election swing states was designed to aid a particular candidate.
7. Let CAIR know what responses are given by the newspapers representatives. E-Mail: info@cair.com
[NOTE: CAIR and other groups are formulating a broader pro-active response to the "Obsession" campaign, but these are some small actions that those who actually received the DVD can take today.]
SEE:
CAIR: MUSLIMS RAP DVD AD IN OBSERVER
PRO-MCCAIN GROUP DUMPING 28 MILLION TERROR SCARE DVDS IN SWING STATES
CONTROVERSIAL FILM ON ISLAM DELIVERED NATIONWIDE
NEWSPAPERS DELIVER MILLIONS OF 'TERROR' DVDS TO SUBSCRIBERS -- IN 'SWING STATES'
ANTI-MUSLIM FILM PRODUCED BY PRO-ISRAEL PARTISAN BOOSTS MCCAIN
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- Iftekhar Hussain
- Iftekhar is the Chair of the CAIR-PA Board of Directors and a member of the Executive Committee of CAIR-PA Philadelphia Chapter. He is engaged in local interfaith educational initiatives with a focus on 'Islam and the Middle East' and 'US Foreign Policy and the Muslim world'. On behalf of CAIR-PA, he has developed a 10-part course titled 'Understanding Islam and Muslims through History and Jurisprudence' and has taught it at churches, synagogues, mosques and local county night schools. He has presented this course at over 30 different venues over the past 6 years. Iftekhar serves as Friday prayer service leader at suburban mosques in the Delaware Valley. Iftekhar was born in Bangladesh, has lived in the Middle East and Europe and studied and obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees at Texas A&M University and worked toward a PhD at Penn State University. He works as a consultant in the Pharmaceutical industry, traveling in Asia Pacific and Europe on business process re-engineering engagements. Iftekhar is married to Bushra Kourani for the past 14 years and has three children Yousef (age 12), Omar (age 11) and Huda (age 7).