Describing the latest in “its continuing effort to combat hate and bigotry,” the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee announces (10/22/08) it “has launched the ‘Mail Back the Hate’ campaign” to “counter the most recent attempt using the politics of fear as a tool to spread hate and division; the distribution of 28 million copies of “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” via dozens of U.S. newspapers. This novel drive plans to
use some of the resources of the recently created Voter Protection Unit by calling on all its supporters to mail back the hate and send the copies of Obsession, with their packages, to the ADC Voter Protection Unit. Those sending the DVD and its package may cover or remove their name and mailing address if they wish. Upon receipt of the DVD’s, ADC will mail back the packages of hate to the Clarion Fund.
Read more about corporate media complicity with racism and xenophobia at the web site for FAIR’s new report that Unmasks the Smearcasters: How Islamophobes Spread Fear, Bigotry and Misinformation.
