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Muslim subway posters fall flatter than steam-rolled frittatas

Great cultures don’t need a hard sell, and the wacky subway posters painting Muslims as live wires are off track for preaching tolerance in America, when 10 of the 17 worst violators of religious freedom in the world today are Muslim nations, reports the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

The billboards fall flat, thanks to sheepheaded slogans:

• Muslims are “coming to strike with hugs so fierce, you’ll end up calling your grandmother and telling her you love her.”

• “The Ugly Truth About Muslims: They have great frittata recipes.”

• “Grownup Muslims can do more pushups than baby Muslims.”

Yawn.

Campaign creators and Muslim comics Negin Farsad and Dean Obeidallah say their advertisements will “inspire people to remember why bigotry and hate towards any religion or race is harmful to everyone,” but the dazed duo is barking up the wrong tree. President Obama has spent two terms patronizing hostile Muslim nations, and the latest FBI figures report only 154 hate incidents against Muslims in 2014, but a whopping 609 against Jews, who top the annual list and typically shrug off the anti-Semitism.

Farsad and Obeidallah know the Muslim brand is contaminated or they wouldn’t be defending it with a billboard campaign, but it will require more than a dog and pony show to eradicate the deep Islamo-association with radicalism, terrorism, misogyny, oppression, violence, dictatorships, and other contemptible conduct.

Muslims with public platforms should be exploring:

• Why many Muslims have an aggrieved view of the West while choosing to live in Western nations.

• Why many Muslims blame Western policies for their own lack of prosperity, instead of government corruption, lack of education, and radical Islam.

• Why many Muslims chant “Death to America” and call Jews descendents of “apes and pigs.”

Hokey subway posters trying to make Muslims out to be mellow fellows fall flatter than an Islamo-frittata because a community spawning a vast terror industry — and then ignoring it — is no laughing matter.

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