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The battle over a new Los Angeles Times campaign (themed, “Connecting us to the Times) that has offended some of the newspaper’s reporters and the Muslim community has ended.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, Southern California, last week got the Times to pull one ad, showing shots of blondes in bikinis next to photos of Islamic women in chadors, from print outlets, TV and billboards.
“This ad ignores the fact that California is multicultural and multireligious,” said Hussam Ayloush, executive director of CAIR-LA.

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