All-Minneapolis Muslim: Were Lowe’s and Kayak Right to Pull Ads?
Recently, at the urging of American Christians in Florida, Kayak.com and Lowe’s pulled sponsorship of the show “All-American Muslim.” The Florida Family Association insisted the cable reality show, which follows a number of Muslim Americans though their daily lives, was “attempting to manipulate Americans into ignoring the threat of jihad.”
As a sometime resident of Minneapolis, I find myself on a daily basis in close proximity to many American Muslims. Most Americans may not know this, but the largest city in Minnesota boasts the highest population of Somalis in North America. Almost all of them are Muslim. Dangerous Muslims. Just last month, a Minnesota woman was found guilty of sending money to Somali terror group al-Shabab. The group has even successfully recruited young men from the local community to travel back to Africa.
To test the contentions of the Florida Family Association, I secretly went out into Minneapolis’s Somali community to observe the true nature of the Muslim Americans not protected by the manipulative glossy Hollywood crap of The Learning Channel. (more…)
