Global faces of terror

SEATTLE —

The FBI says it's pulling advertisements off 46 Metro buses in the Seattle area, after some people complained that they stereotyped Muslims.

The ads, which began running this month in connection with a State Department program, features pictures of 16 men wanted around the globe for terrorist activities below the words: "Faces of Global Terrorism."

Among those criticizing the ads was U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott of Seattle, who suggested they gave the impression that "terrorism only comes from one religion or one color of people," and said the ads might increase the risk of hate crimes against Middle Eastern, South Asian and Muslim Americans.

"That is not the face of terrorism," McDermott told KIRO 7 on Wednesday. "Terrorism is what's in people's minds. There are white terrorists and there are brown terrorists and black and there's all kind of terrorists. So to put it on the bus and say this is the face of terrorism is to really brand one group of people unfairly."

Although the ads do not identify the terrorists by religion, Jeff Siddiqui of American Muslims of Puget Sound says the message is clear.

"Anyone who looks at this ad is going to say Muslims are the face of global terrorism and the bigots are going to have a heyday," Siddiqui said.


Arent all the muslim terrorists stereotyping themselves?

Well, they call it the bloody borders of Islam for a reason.

Big Pun wrote:SEATTLE —

The FBI says it's pulling advertisements off 46 Metro buses in the Seattle area, after some people complained that they stereotyped Muslims.

The ads, which began running this month in connection with a State Department program, features pictures of 16 men wanted around the globe for terrorist activities below the words: "Faces of Global Terrorism."

Among those criticizing the ads was U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott of Seattle, who suggested they gave the impression that "terrorism only comes from one religion or one color of people," ...

 Well...I mean c'mon.  It pretty much does.  True there are terrorists of other races, Chechen, etc, .  But the face of terrorism pretty much is Arabic.