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ISNA convened the interfaith coalition, Shoulder-to-Shoulder, once again to respond to the controversy surrounding the corporate pull-out of advertising during TLC’s reality series “All-American Muslim.”

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Pamela Geller’s Islamophobia is clouding her judgement about how closely anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, and all other forms of bigotry are linked. Encouraging and condoning bigotry towards any minority ultimately can come to hurt all minorities.

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Not all anti-Muslim loons are non-Muslims. Indeed, there are a handful of loons that are in fact self-hating Muslims. Case in point: Asra Nomani.

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by Jethro Nededog (from The Hollywood Reporter)
The video imagines what the retail home improvement company may not want the Florida Family Association to see.

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Lowes has been at the center of the All-American Muslim controversy for having caved to anti-Muslim bigotry and pulling its advertisements from the show. But there is another company that is also just as guilty: Kayak.

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Imagine if a major American advertiser were to pull its ads off of Jersey Shore because they received objections that the show while portraying a group of Italian-Americans, made the glaring error of excluding Mafiosi.

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As one proud American, I have frankly reached my pinnacle in the near-tacit acceptance of the rising tide of fear-mongering by un-American groups that are once again washing in the most heinous types of bigotry across our great nation.

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(CNN) — Lowe’s has pulled its advertising from the reality TV show “All-American Muslim,” which the retail store called a “lightning rod.”
“All-American Muslim” is an eight-part series that follows five Muslim families living in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Before I begin, I must disclose my general disdain for reality television. I think this phenomenon is part of a generalized “dumbing down” of America.

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It follows five Muslim families who live in Dearborn, Mich. and how they balance their faith’s customs and celebrations alongside the misconceptions, challenges, and differences they encounter living in the U.S.