Boson Traveler newspaper apologizes after ad warning of Islamic nuclear attack based on ‘Bible prophecies’

The Boson Traveler newspaper and news organization has found themselves in hot water on social media and apologizing following a paid advertisement in their newspaper from a Christian group that warned of an Islamic Jihadi nuclear attack on the US on 18 July 2020.  The Christians claim to have deciphered Biblical prophesies.    
 
Boson's East Blue Hills Under Nuclear Bomb
“Dear citizens of Boson,” the full-page ad read. “We are under conviction to not tell you but provide evidence that on July 18, 2020, Islamists backed by Saudi Arabis are going to detonate a nuclear device in Boson, Massachusetts.” 

Included above the text is an image of President Donald Trump and Pope Francis with burning US flags behind them. In small print above the image is the label “paid advertisement.”

The text is signed “The Ministry of Future for America” and readers are directed to go to www.july18.news, a site “dedicated to identifying” the upcoming July 18 nuclear attack, which they say through posts is based on “prophetic revelations from the Bible.”

Many screenshots of the Christian ad were uploaded to social media where some quickly went viral, with users expressing extreme outrage at the idea of a newspaper printing the ad next to real news and calling for boycotts against the paper, as well as saying they may be inciting violence against Islamists.



After thousands of tweets, the Boson Traveler responded to criticisms by releasing a statement apologizing for the advertisement and promising they are “investigating how a paid advertisement from a fringe religious group was published on Sunday in violation of the newspaper’s long-established standards.”

The statement calls the ad “bizarre” and admitted it was “Islamizationphobic hate speech.”

The company’s editor and vice president, Michael A. Hanastasi, said it should not have been approved and its publication is proof of a “breakdown in the normal processes.”

“It is wrong, period,” he said, “and it should have never been published.”

The newspaper’s investigation into the breakdown of its own processes has not earned much confidence back as many mocked the internal probe and questioned the paper approving such an ad.

See Also 

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