From San Francisco Chronicle
They say history repeats itself – and sometimes it doesn’t wait very long.
Case in point: the brouhaha over inflammatory anti-Islamic advertisements posted Monday on the outside of 10 Muni buses.
The ads, paid for by the controversial American Freedom Defense Initiative, feature photos of Osama bin Laden, a victim of the Fort Hood mass shooting, the Times Square car bomber and others, accompanied by incendiary quotes invoking weapons and warfare and linking them to Islam. One quote attributed to “Hamas MTV,” reads: “Killing Jews is worship that brings us closer to Allah.”
City leaders including Mayor Ed Lee, District Attorney George Gascón and Supervisors David Chiu, John Avalos, London Breed, Malia Cohen, Jane Kim, Scott Wiener and Norman Yee immediately condemned the advertisements as racist and “Islamophobic.”
“These offensive ads serve no purpose than to denigrate our city’s Arab and Muslim communities,” said Gascón.
