Muslim campaign urges Americans to “Discover Muhammad (PBUH)”

Rasa - A Muslim campaign urging Americans to “Discover Muhammad (PBUH)” is trying to reverse negative perceptions of the religion by giving a platform for positive messages.

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Date: 19 June 2015 - 18:19

RNA - With terrorist attacks providing much of the backdrop for media discussion of their faith, the mainstream Islamic Circle of North America, is sponsoring billboards to talk about peace and love and put belief into context, Euronews reported.

“We thought a proper approach would be to actually educate the larger public about his personality, which exemplifies love and brotherhood,” said Waqas Syed, ICNA Deputy Secretary General.

The billboard campaign is not the first high-profile bid by a Muslim group to correct Islam’s image in America. But it is the largest such effort by ICNA, the group most closely identified with billboard campaigns in recent years.

A previous billboard campaign by ICNA two years ago invited Americans to see similarities between Christianity and Islam, which views Jesus (AS) as a prophet.

The latest campaign, paid for by local ICNA chapters, will eventually include about 100 billboards from Philadelphia to Baltimore, Atlanta and Miami.

Some signs, like those in Sacramento, are clearly invitations to know the Muslim faith while others introduce Prophet Mohammad [PBUH] as a supporter of women’s rights and religious tolerance.

“Kindness is a mark of faith,” a billboard in Elizabeth, New Jersey, reads. In Miami, another offers, “Muhammad [PBUH] believed in peace, social justice, women’s rights.”

Muslims make up 0.9 percent of the US population, but the number is expected to double by 2050.

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