“‘My Jihad’ Ad Campaign Launched on SF Buses”

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The Hamas-CAIR #myjihad ad campaign, one of the most ridiculous and insulting to the intelligence of every American and freedom-loving human being, has now been posted in San Francisco. Hamas-CAIR launched this joke in Chicago last month. Our counter campaign (scroll below) was submitted in Chicago over three weeks ago and we are still awaiting approval (or rejection). But these tools can't get the Hamas-CAIR ads up fast enough. Bend over, boys. 

We have submitted the ad to San Francisco as well. Knowing what gutless wonders the officials of the SF transit authority are, this should prove interesting, I wouldn't be surprised if the SFMTA posted its own ads to counter ours, saying, "#myjihad is trying to keep AFDI's ads off our buses!"

According to the reporter, Laird Harrison, "the understanding of 'jihad' in English seems to be evolving." Tell that to the 270 million victims of jihadi wars, land appropriations, cultural annihilations and enslavements.

Harrison attempts to "broaden" the meaning of jihad, but as you can see, all the definitions pre-2001 refer to holy war. But the Islamic supremacist war in the information battle-space has been successfully launched. Imagine, they are passing off this garbage in post-911 America. It's appalling. Oceans of blood dismissed by these ghouls.

'My Jihad' Ad Campaign Launched on SF Buses" KQED, Janaury 3, 2013

What does "jihad" mean to you?

A "My Jihad" bus advertisement. (Council on American-Islamic Relations)

Concerned that many people misunderstand the term — and have
negative stereotypes of Muslims — the Council on American-Islamic
Relations has launched a an advertising campaign on San Francisco buses.

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"Jihad is a central tenet of the Islamic creed which means struggling
uphill in order to get to a better place," CAIR said in a media
release.

"My Jihad is to build friendships across the aisle," the ads say. "What's yours?"

CAIR started the advertising partly to counter an earlier bus advertising campaign
by Pamela Geller. "In any war between the civilized man and the savage,
support the civilized man. Support Israel," said Geller's ads. "Defeat
jihad."

Muni began running Geller's ads in August after a federal judge ruled
that New York City had accept them on public transit there. The San
Francisco agency later posted its own ads on the same buses explaining that Muni disavowed Geller's message.

The CAIR campaign started last week in San Francisco, and as of Jan.
3, ads were circulating on the sides of 35 Muni buses, according to the
media release. It extends a similar campaign that began Dec. 11 in
Chicago.

The understanding of "jihad" in English seems to be evolving.

The 1895 book "A Dictionary of Islam" by Thomas Patrick Hughes gives this definition:

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Lit. "An effort, or a striving." A religious war with
those who are unbelievers in the mission of Muhammad. It is an incumbent
religious duty, established in the Qur’an and in the Traditions as a
divine institution, and enjoined specially for the purpose of advancing
Islam and of repelling evil from Muslims.

My 1971 edition of the Compact Oxford English Dictionary similarly
defines jihad as "A religious war of Mohammedans against nonbelievers in
Islam, inculcated as a duty by the Koran and traditions."

But according to the 2010 book "Essential Islam: A Comprehensive Guide to Belief and Practice"
by Diane Morgan, "jihad" has long been used within the religion both to
mean an internal struggle and a fight against the enemies of Islam.

And the Free Online Dictionary gives three definitions:

1. Islam An individual's striving for spiritual self-perfection.

2. Islam A Muslim holy war or spiritual struggle against infidels.

3. A crusade or struggle: "The war against smoking is turning into a jihad against people who smoke" (Fortune).

Here's how the current campaign started, according to the media release:

Volunteers working on the campaign include activists and
students, but the crux of the volunteers have been a group of working
moms who are disturbed by the prospects of their children growing up in
an environment of gross misinformation about Islam that sometimes spills
into outright hatred such as with the recent anti-Islam ads sponsored
by Pamela Geller.

The CAIR campaign has a website and extends to Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter where users are asked to tweet about their own jihad #MyJihad hashtag.

Many tweets follow the spirit of the CAIR campaign, such as this one:

Alia Ganoub.
@3alia2_

Okay new intentions. #MyJihad for this month is to study harder and keep my prayers on time. Starting tomorrow.

3 Jan 13

But others tweets are taking a more critical tone, including this one from Pamela Geller:

Pamela Geller
@Atlasshrugs

#myjihad: Muslims in Nigeria murder 22 in jihad attacks, force Christians to convert to Islam on pain of death: … bit.ly/VR8yDu

30 Dec 12

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