Lowe's Prove Your Commitment To Diversity!

 

TLC launched a popular reality show called "All-American Muslim" about everyday Americans, who happen to be Muslim, going about their normal daily lives including playing sports, going to school, going to work and paying their taxes.

This was too much for the anti-Muslim fear mongers at the Florida Family Association, who were outraged that the show was depicting Muslims as "ordinary folks just like you and me." An article on the organization's web site suggests that the show instead depict "one of its secular, attractive nominal Muslims as he decided to get more serious about his faith, and ended up participating in jihad activity or Islamic supremacist efforts."

A controversy was whipped up by the extremist Florida Family Association over the show and Lowe's Home Improvement decided to pull its advertising from the show. The equation in the TV business is, no advertising = no show.

Lowe's speedy capitulation to a small right-wing hate group sets a dangerous precedent and emboldens bigots. Lowe's should have ignored the Right's bigoted pleas and gone about its business. Instead it caved to a group of bigoted extremists. The company claims it is committed to diversity -- it's time to prove it. To live in peace and harmony, all Americans must value religious liberty and reject hate, and the Radical Right's anti-Muslim hysteria and bigotry.

Please sign the petition to Lowe's Chairman and CEO Robert Niblock now, urging the company to reverse course on its decision to pull its advertising from "All-American Muslim in response to a Religious Right hate group and reinstate its advertising to set a precedence in rejecting bigotry and extremism.