Jewish, Christian groups urge tolerance toward Muslims in New York subway ads

Now Muslims are the victims in the eye of the World,and jews are the agressors.

Until then...

what is anti-muslim about the poster? Doesn't mention muslims! Love your Jewish and Christian neighbours.

For the ignorant amongst us. In Islam, Jihad does not only refer to armed struggle. Jihad varies from earning your family's daily bread, working to do the right thing, promoting peace and tolerance.....etc As far as Muslims are concerned, armed Jihad is of minimal importance, compared to the jihad of everyday struggle (looking after your family).

'Jihad' simply means 'struggle' - the highest form being the internal personal struggle against sinfulness and evil. It is a central principle within Islam and oher religions as well. Jihad as a term has been ubused by muslim extremists and islamophobes alike. The point? anyone with half a brain can see that the initial advert is inflamitory and uses bigoted language based on wilful ignorance. Its the type of thing that any neo-facist party would be proud of.

The poster is anti-Muslim because it misrepresents "Jihad" as having only one meaning (ie. "Holy war"). Islam is then mischaracterised as being that mischaracterised definition of Jihad. So by implication, Muslims in general, not Muslim extremists, are the "savages" referred to in the poster. "Jihad" simply means "struggle". First and foremost, a Muslim's "personal internal struggle" to live out the Muslim faith as well as possible. Secondly, it also mean the "struggle" to build a good, peaceful and cohesive Muslim society. And lastly, it can mean "armed struggle" or what is deemed a holy war: but even then it refers to the struggle to "defend" Islam, with force only if necessary. These precepts exist also in Judaism. In fact, they are miztvot. It would be equally anti-Semitic to put up a poster in the Subway saying: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Lebanon. Defeat Mitzvah." That would be to mischaracterise a mitzvah as concerning only a holy war (and even then, only as an offensive, not defensive war), and by implication Judaism as an offensive holy war, and Jews in general as savages. But this is despite the fact that there are hundreds of mitzvot, only some of which represent the concept of a holy war (defensive, just as in Islam). This hypothetical poster would be anti-Semitic just as the poster in the subway is anti-Muslim. The proof is in their choice of word. Why not just say "Defeat Holy War" so that it applied to everyone; to the savages within every religious group. But the fact of the matter is that they chose an Arabic term, and mischaracterised it, to scaremonger and vilify Islam and Muslims in general, just as choosing a Hebrew word (mitzvah), and mischaracterising it, could be used to scaremonger and vilify Judaism and Jews in general. In fact, if the lawyers of the group trying to prevent the initial posters going up, had instead argued the flawed straw-man logic of the poster, and mischaracterisation for the purpose of vilification, I believe they would have won their case. The Jewish group and Christian group who set up the competing posters acknowledge that deliberate flawed straw-man logic in Jewish extremist Pamela Geller's original posters. I congratulate them.

civilized man.

Denouncing Holy war is racist now? May your god help you!

Pamela Geller is not a pro-israel ad. it is a white supremacist 's ad, similarly to those of anti-gay, anti-African American (including those who claim Obama is a covert Muslim... follow my drift), anti-Jews. I refer you to the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Centre for you) literature in the USA thank to the counter-ads, NYC subway is almost clean again,

Rabbi's for Human Rights should confront Muslim leaders about their silence concerning intolerance towards others and their support for Jihad!! However, they choose to blindly support the 'other' rather than their own brother and sister. That's why main stream Jews don't care what they say!!Pity and unfortunately they often become an instrument of anti semites rather than being a light for the Jewish people they claim to be!!

Where does the ad use the term Muslim or Islam? I don't see it. Whoever keeps referring to the ad as being anti-Muslim has an agenda.

Any Muslim who takes offense at a comparison of JIHAD to savagery is extremists, and who cares about offending extremists?

But Pamela Geller,a jewish extremist doesn´t agree with them.

As a people with a history of being persecuted based on religion and nationality, Jews know better. Pamela is just a mouth piece for the most extreme bigoted hate & fear mongering voices in America! Any Jew who approves of this approach is a total hypocrite!

What I'm referring to is a serous committment by the Muslim community to encourage acceptance of diversity by Muslims, to discourage violence aimed at others. That, afterall, is the reason that the anti-muslim posters are going up. Those posters are not going up because of individual acts of violence by some peple that happen to be Muslim. Those kinds of acts are despicable but are commited by individuals of all faiths. The problem isn't even how pervasive those acts are within the Muslim community. That matters but its also how the entire Muslim world reacts to that. Peace begets peace and violence begets violence. Violent self defence begets violence too but that is completely unwarranted. Of course, I'm talking about Israel.