Yes, It’s 2010: Muslim Group Releases Video Promising Not To “Take Over Country”

Ok, what’s more depressing? The fact that, in the year 2010, a group of Muslims (ie. practitioners of the second largest religion in the world) have to film a video where they seriously and without irony promise not to take over the country or the fact that the video succeeds in making them seem less like terrorists but accidentally makes them look like the aliens from the remake of V. Seriously, if any Fox News personalities start filing reports that Muslims like to hide in their space ships and eat gerbils, I’m going to lose my mind.

Yes, an organization called My Faith My Voice has released a new PSA in which American-born Muslims of every size and color asks viewers not to pay attention to many of the things that have been said about the religion in recent weeks. It’s a powerful message, sure, but the very fact that this thing exists is pretty terrible. Is this really the 21st century that Americans envisioned? Even if we weren’t fighting off Reptilian fascists by this point, you’d think we’d at least be watching PSAs from sentient robots or something instead of from a boring human religion.

Oh, well. The best part of the video comes at the end when we get to see a bunch of smiling children. Presumably they’re smiling because they’re too young to read poll results.

(The Caucus via the gorgeously redesigned Wonkette)

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