Posted on 10/02/2005 6:53:25 PM PDT by Minutemen
WND Boeing apologizes to CAIR for ad Depicted U.S. soldiers rappelling onto roof of mosque Posted: October 1, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern
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A controversial Muslim lobby group in Washington said it has elicited apologies from the Boeing Co., Bell Helicopter Textron and the National Journal for publishing an advertisement depicting U.S. troops attacking a mosque.
The Washington-based Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, said it sent a letter Thursday to top officials of Boeing, Bell and parent company Textron asking for an investigation into how the ad was approved for publication.
"We thank Boeing, Bell and National Journal for their swift and decisive response to our concerns," said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad. "Mistakes can happen, but the true test of a company's integrity comes in acknowledging and dealing with those mistakes."
The ad for the CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft depicted soldiers rappelling onto the roof of a building, labeled "Muhammad Mosque" in Arabic.
CAIR noted the building "has a dome, crescent moon and minaret, all common features of a mosque."
A CAIR news release said Awad "will follow up with all parties involved to determine how the ad was produced and to help prevent similar incidents in the future."
American Muslim groups, according to CAIR, "are always ready to consult with corporations and media outlets on issues related to religious diversity and culturally-sensitive advertising."
In its reply to CAIR, Boeing stated: "The CV-22 advertisement that appeared in the National Journal is clearly offensive, and did not proceed through the normal channels within Boeing before production."
Mary Foerster, vice president of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Communications, said, "We consider the ad offensive, regret its publication and apologize to those who like us are dismayed with its contents."
Foerster said that when Boeing became aware of the advertisement, the company immediately requested its partner's agency withdraw and destroy all print proofs and replace it with one that was appropriate.
"Unfortunately despite our best efforts to have the ad replaced, a clerical error at the National Journal resulted in its publication this week," she said.
CAIR said representatives of Bell Helicopter and National Journal also contacted the Muslim group to express regret for the publication of the ad.
National Journal Executive Vice President Elizabeth Baker Keffer said the ad "was run as the result of a clerical error on our part. We had received specific direction from the agency representing Boeing/Bell to not run the ad. We have apologized to Boeing, their partner Bell, and their advertising agency for this mistake."
A Bell statement sent to CAIR said in part: "We recognize that some organizations and individuals may have been offended by its content and regrets any concerns this advertisement may have raised. Bell and our partners are evaluating creative processes to prevent this from happening again."
CAIR, which recently urged Congress to pass a resolution officially recognizing the Islamic fast of Ramadan, regularly seeks apologies for alleged offenses against Islam.
But the organization is a spin-off of the Islamic Association for Palestine, identified by two former FBI counterterrorism chiefs as a "front group" for Hamas. Several CAIR leaders have been convicted on terror-related charges.
Although CAIR signed a fatwa, or decree, condemning terrorism in general, the group repeatedly has attacked the prosecutions of Islamic terrorists arrested or convicted since 9-11 and the government's freezing of Islamic terrorist fronts, calling it a "war against Islam" by the United States.
Boeing, Bell apologize for “mosque attack” ad
| Posted by Eurotwit On News/Activism 10/01/2005 2:17:32 PM CDT · 24 replies · 556+ views Reuters ^ | 10/1/2005 7:00:00 PM GMT | Reuters Boeing Co. and its joint-venture partner Bell Helicopter apologized for a recently published advertisement for their V-22 Osprey aircraft that showed soldiers landing on the roof of a mosque. The ad, published on Sept. 24 in The National Journal, a Washington government magazine, prompted immediate complaints from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which demanded an apology and the withdrawal of the campaign. The advertisement showed troops rappelling down from an Osprey aircraft to the roof of a building labelled "Muhammad Mosque" in Arabic as smoke billows from a nearby burning car. "It descends from the heavens. Ironically it unleashes... |
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| Posted by Tangerine Time Machine On News/Activism 09/30/2005 8:41:03 PM CDT · 17 replies · 623+ views CAIR Press Release ^ | September 30, 2005 | CAIR WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group said this afternoon that Boeing Co., Bell Helicopter Textron and National Journal magazine have apologized for a print advertisement depicting U.S. troops attacking a mosque. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said it had received a statement of apology from Boeing, which sponsored the ad along with Bell. Boeing wrote: "The CV-22 advertisement that appeared in the National Journal is clearly offensive, and did not proceed through the normal channels within Boeing before production. "'We consider the ad offensive, regret its publication and apologize to... |
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Beoing doesn't want some goons sneaking on their various properties and hearing explosions take place. Whomever they have their employee health insurance probably told them to appologize.
We have so got to grow a pair and tell CAIR where to stick it.
I know this is a family friendly website but $%#& CAIR.
They're a terroist support organization whose goal is to impose islamofascism on this country.
All its members should be thrown in jail for treason.
FAITH UNDER FIRE: Does website show Christian massacre? (Religion of Peace Alert)
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | October 2, 2005 | Jeremy Reynalds
Posted on 10/02/2005 10:45:38 AM PDT by Jacob Kell
An American-hosted soft porn Internet site also doubles as a cyber home for radical Islamic video propaganda.
One approximately six-minute video housed on the Japanese site which we will not list because it so horrendous. Titled, "The Ambon Massacre," it starts with a picture of the ocean waves lazily lapping at dusk.
The scene soon shifts to video of a burning building and people being massacred. Then viewers see rows of dead bodies covered with newspaper, followed by scenes of burning, decimated houses.
The horrifying footage is followed by graphic video of burned, dead bodies with holes in their heads, as well as chopped off body parts. The dead include babies and the mutilated corpses of young people with gaping holes in their necks.
The video is apparently of the 2002 Ambon Massacre.
Shows to go ya' where CAIR focus's their concerns.
A multi billion dollar company who has done nothing but promote good for humanity and "CAIR" is p!ssed.
Isn't it time for CAIR to pack their belongings and move to a more deserving country to tote their rhetorical concerns?
Perhaps they find the cash flow in the GREAT USA too lucrative to give up.
Apologize then bomb them
then maybe apologize again
Boeing should show this PROUDLY! Enough political correctness BS!
Then weren't attacking a mosque, they were attacking raghead terrorists in the mosque.
In its reply to CAIR, Boeing stated: "The CV-22 advertisement that appeared in the National Journal is clearly offensive"
The only thing that's offensive here is Boeing's wussification.
CAIR, which recently urged Congress to pass a resolution officially recognizing the Islamic fast of Ramadan, regularly seeks apologies for alleged offenses against Islam.
An unoffended Islamic is a nonexistent Islamic.
political correctness is ruining our country!
And of course somebody was probably fired as well.I'll bet CAIR is still laughing.
If Boeing advertised such a scene in the first place then they should have had the guts to tell CAIR to go shove it. In retro-spect perhaps they are not sorry they did not include Jihaddest firing rockets into the mosque as United States Airborne Special OPS soldiers landed on the roof firing at the goons to protect the mosque. That would have made one hell of a statement. Then how could CAIR complain. After all our troops where simply protecting the mosque from Islamofacist goons the CAIR goons secretly love.
Too late...you may use the past tense from now on. And try to learn to speak weasel or quisling or some other language of cowards.
We mustn't offend the effendis and impotentates!~
Accidental? Hmmmm.... Who cairs anyway?
They weren't attacking a mosque.
They were attacking the terrorist ragheaded bastards holed-up in the mosque and fighting and resupplying themselves from said mosque.
Besides, when this is the case, which it HAS been on occasion after occasion, we should LEVEL the mosque with artillery, tanks, and/or airpower, and OBLITERATE all of those inside.
F**k CAIR and the arabian horse they rode in on.
Doesn't CAIR have better things to do like explain why 16 Muslims reportedly rape a Pakistani Christian girl who would not renounce her faith in Christ and return to the peace loving religion of Islam?
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