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Another victory for Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and the attorneys at American Freedom Defense Initiative.
From Agence French Press:
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'Islamic Jew-Hatred' Ads Appear on Washington D.C. Buses
Another victory for Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and the attorneys at American Freedom Defense Initiative.
From Agence French Press:
Washington (AFP) - Bus ads linking "Islamic Jew-hatred" Islam with Adolf Hitler are out on the streets of Washington, and the US capital's mass transit authority said Tuesday it is legally powerless to ban them.
The elongated broadsides on 20 Metro buses feature a photo of the Nazi German dictator in conversation with "his staunch ally" Haj Amin al-Husseini, grand mufti of Jerusalem during World War II.
"Islamic Jew-hatred: It's in the Quran. Two-thirds of all US aid goes to Islamic countries. Stop racism. End all aid to Islamic countries," the ad states, over a fine-print disclaimer from the Metro transit authority.
The ads, which are to run until mid-June, were placed by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), which aims to "raise awareness of the depredations of Islamic supremacism," according to its website.
It hopes the campaign -- condemned by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) -- will raise $20,000 by Friday via an online crowd-funding campaign that, as of Tuesday, had yielded about $7,500.
"We're not able to refuse ads on the basis of content," a spokeswoman for Metro told AFP, citing a 2012 court case that allowed another AFDI bus ad on the grounds that it was free speech protected by the US Constitution.
On its website, AFDI co-founder Pamela Geller called the campaign a direct response to like-sized Washington bus ads placed in April by American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) which read: "Stop US aid to Israel's occupation."
"So many folks are unaware of Islamic history and the role of Muslim world during the Holocaust... Let's buy more ads," blogged Geller on her eponymous website that included a link to the Indiegogo fundraising page.
As Muslim leader in then British-ruled Palestine, Husseini -- who lived in Berlin for much of the war as a guest of the Nazi regime -- sought Hitler's support for an Arab and Muslim homeland that would be free of Jews.
CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said that such "inflammatory" ads were clearly intended "to promote hatred of Islam and Muslims" while at the same time whipping up publicity to raise funds for AFDI.Yes, hopefully the "inflammatory" ads are exceedingly successful at BOTH.
- So-called Pop Culture & Comics Sites Condone Vandalizing Pamela Geller's Ads
Anti-jihad blogger Pamela Geller's advertisements against Islamofascism in San Francisco were defaced by a leftist group called Street Cred, whose tactics included using the Muslim Ms. Marvel to paste over Geller's paid for ads on buses. But what's...
- The New Left Fascists
From Robert Spencer: The mainstream media applauds the unapologetic criminality of journalist Mona Eltahawy, arrested for vandalizing Pamela Geller's pro-Israel ads in the New York subway. The internationally notable Egyptian-American journalist...
- The Fashionable New Cowardice
From Robert Spencer: Without anyone really noticing, cowardice has overtaken the American public square, and is now widely retailed as if it were the sensible, proper response to violent Muslim intimidation. Last week Newsday ran an opinion piece...
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SIOA: Victory for Free Speech -- Religious Liberty Bus Ads Restored to Miami Buses Big time congrats and thanks are in order to Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller,...
-
Atlas at Human Events: Free Speech Denied In Miami by Pamela Geller 04/20/2010 In an outrageous denial of free speech rights, Miami-Dade Transit last week forced the removal of a “Leaving Islam” ad campaign on Miami buses because the ads might be...