REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, NEW YORK -- New York has launched a public campaign to combat Islamophobia on Monday (26/9). This campaign emphasized the equality rights of hundreds of thousands of Muslims in the city.
The campaign was launched due to Manhattan bomb attack and blamed on the naturalized US citizen from Afghanistan. The campaign initially use social media to spread the message with the hashtag #IAmMuslimNYC.
"Now, it’s important for New York citizens to unite as one city and reject hatred and violence. We will not tolerate any discrimination or violence and we will not stop until all New York residents, including our Muslim brother to be treated with respect," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
The campaign started on Tuesday (27/9), 10 days after the suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami detonated a bomb in Chelsea, Manhattan, and made 29 people were injured.
New York campaign is done amid rising concern among Muslims about bad reaction to the attacks of extremists, both in the US and abroad, in the context of anti-Muslim rhetoric who delivered by the US presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Among the violence against Muslims in New York were the shooting on Islamic cleric and his aides near a mosque in the area of Queens on August. New York will hold a workshop next month to give the civil servants as well as public and private workers a better understanding about Islam.
Promoting the campaign with using all media will last until mid-2017. New York mayor has been promoting an inclusive approach and multiracial since his first campaign in 2013.
Before the election, he promised Islamic holidays just like the holidays of Christians and Jews. That pledge has been in force since the beginning of school in 2015.
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