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Friday, December 16, 2005

The Truth: No Longer Welcome Here

What kind of PC Bullpuckey is this...

Planned Billboard Angers Arab Americans
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A group that is trying to tighten the standards for obtaining driver's licenses has come under fire for plans to post a billboard with a picture of an Arab clutching a grenade and a North Carolina license.
"The message of the ad says that Arabs are dangerous and violent people and that therefore they should not get driver's licenses, and I think that is bigoted. It's racist," said Christine Saah Nazer, spokeswoman for the Washington-based Arab American Institute.
Amanda Bowman, president of the New York-based Coalition for a Secure Driver's License, which is launching the billboard campaign in North Carolina and two other states, said: "We're not going after Arab-Americans. We're going after terrorists."
The billboard, scheduled to go up this month near the state Capitol in Raleigh, shows a man in traditional Arab head scarf. The billboard reads: "Don't license terrorists, North Carolina." Similar billboards are planned for New Mexico and Wisconsin, the coalition said.
Well Mrs. Nazer, what would you recommend?

Old Scandinavian ladies?

Seriously, is it just me or are these folks just a wee bit over sensitive?

Must just be me.