In case you missed the story about a not-so-clever bit of advertising here it is again. A Reuters story describes the radio commercial which was for a Mitsubishi dealership in Ohio. The radio ad was to describe Jihad-themed "Fatwa Fridays" with toy sword handouts for kids.
The radio advertisement for the Dennis Mitsubishi car dealership in Columbus, Ohio, has "a whole jihad theme," said Adnan Mirza, director of the Columbus office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
"They are planning on launching a jihad on the automotive market and their representatives would be wearing burqas ... ," Mirza said. "They mentioned the pope in there and also about giving rubber swords out to the kiddies -- really just reprehensible-type comments."
Details of the radio ad, which has not yet been broadcast, have been reported in the local media, but officials at the dealership declined to comment about the content of the radio spot.
The car dealership wisely dropped the radio ad which was in poor taste and had already upset some Muslims without even hitting the air. The ad never once ran live on the air.
