The Tampa Tribune published an article on the Florida Family Association's (FFA) campaign against the cable news network Al Jazeera America, failing to note the FFA's fringe Islamophobic and anti-LGBT views.
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Al Jazeera America's journalism has been lauded by media critics, but the network's recent launch triggered a wave of right-wing, Islamophobic backlash. Most notorious among Al Jazeera America's critics is David Caton, head of the FFA, who has launched a crusade to stop corporations from advertising on what he describes as 'the radical Islamist network'.
Absent from the Tribune's report on the FFA's anti-Al Jazeera campaign was any context to illuminate the group's motives. This isn't first time that the FFA has intimidated advertisers with xenophobic appeals. In 2011, the group persuaded Lowe's and several other companies not to advertise on TLC's reality show All-American Muslim. As Jon Stewart quipped, the only apparent reason for the FFA's boycott of the show was that it portrayed "Muslims without the terrorist element."
Right Wing Watch noted in 2011 that the FFA's All-American Muslim boycott marked merely the latest in a series of bigoted moves by the organization. The group produced a selectively edited video decrying President Barack Obama's "extraordinarily strong bond ... with Islam and his Muslim heritage."
According to the FFA, Obama isn't the only figure responsible for creeping Islamization. The organization went after Campbell's Soup for promoting the "advancement of Islam and Sharia law in the United States" because the company makes halal soups.
h/t: EQ Matters
