SAN ANTONIO -- Local Muslims respond to the growing backlash against their community with a national public service announcement campaign.
Leaders with the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) say the planned Islamic center in Manhattan is the reason behind the backlash.
At the Thursday press conference, they announced the psa's will feature Muslim first responders to the 9/11 attack. The psa's message is "9/11 happened to us all" and that we have more in common than we think.
CAIR also says that a Florida church's plans to burn copies of the Koran on September 11 send the wrong message.
"If the poison is being given in young minds like that, what kind of tomorrow's leaders are we raising? We are very concerned because our children are born here. We have generations that have been born here. I am a fourth generation," says CAIR's Sarwat Husain.
The psa's will be distributed to television stations nationwide and online through social media sites.
