CAIR’s advertising places Islam within mainstream Christian and Jewish value structures

Evidence

According to the CAIR PSAs, Muslim family values are not that different from how President Bush might define American values. Such similarity is especially significant given the past decade’s controversy over gay marriage. Though CAIR does not make an explicit statement against homosexuality, its PSAs accentuate its support for the heterosexual family as the foundation for a secure nation. The organization seeks to connect with other Americans under the rubric of tolerance and diversity. These advertisements target other religious Americans, presumably the majority of Americans, and in doing so seeks to place Islam on the same level and within the same value structure as other faiths, Christianity and Judaism in particular. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 1226

Categorization

• SEED: A minority advocacy group silently conforming to heteronormative values to gain acceptance is itself a form of respectability politics worth an article.
• XREF: Connects with the standing directive interest in claims that overturn assumptions; here, pro-Muslim advocacy replicating majoritarian moral frameworks.