Idiots using American Sniper as an excuse to hate Muslims, civil rights group claims
Confirming suspicions that stoners going to laugh at the fake baby are only one subgroup contributing to American Sniper’s box-office success, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee now claims that the film has led to a threefold increase in people talking about killing Muslims on social media. (The group has apparently already compiled hundreds of such messages, examples of which we will decline to reprint here.) “The last time we saw such a sharp increase was in 2010, around the Ground Zero mosque,” Abed Ayoub, the group’s national and legal policy director, tells The Guardian, tastefully refraining from adding that he assumes these dumb fucks are racist all the time, but are emboldened to say as much when a high-profile film or news event can be misinterpreted as an endorsement of said views.