A pair of religious groups will display ads celebrating Islam and urging tolerance in various New York City subway stations near the “anti-jihad” advertisements that have prompted a public backlash, the New York Times reports.
The groups — one Christian and one Jewish — said their campaigns weren’t coordinated. Their ads will coincidentally go up on Monday.
A pro-Israel group spnsored the original ad that’s generated such an uproar. The copy of that ad, which has been defaced in some stations, reads, “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat jihad.”
