Sep 20 - Anti-Islamic advertisements to hit NYC

Anti-Islamic advertisements will go up across New York City’s subway system next week after a federal judge ruled that the city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority could not legally refuse to host the signs on the basis of "demeaning" language.

As early as next Monday, ten NYC subway stations will showcase adverts declaring, "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad." The campaign was created by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), an organization considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center watch group.
Pamela Geller, the executive director of the AFDI, stands by her signage despite rampant complaints circulating before the campaign has even begun.

"I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages,” Geller tells Sky News.







Geller has long advocated against so-called "Islamist propaganda" in America and has campaigned in the past to call for the shutting down of a Washington, DC museum exhibit that highlighted Muslim contributions to science. The installation was declared "Best Touring Exhibit" by the Museum Heritage Awards in 2011, but Geller claimed "It has indoctrinated hundreds of thousands of children into a rosy and romanticized view of Islam that makes them less appreciative of their own culture’s achievements and more complacent about Islamization in the West.”

For her overt actions waged against Islamic culture, the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League has said Geller "fuels and fosters anti-Muslim bigotry in society."

Those ideals will be brought to New York subway stations next week despite a legal battle that ended in July with a Manhattan federal judge agreeing that the First Amendment allowed Geller to have her ads run in the metro system.

"I live in America and in America we have the first amendment,” Geller tells Sky News.
Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American Islamic Relations, responded to the outlet by condemning Geller’s actions, but agreeing with the federal judge’s decision regardless.

"Our basic position is that the first amendment means that everyone is free to be a bigot or even an idiot like Pamela Geller,” Hooper tells Sky. "We wish she wasn't provoking and inciting hatred, but in America that's her right."

"We encourage Muslims to exercise the same right to publicly denounce such adverts. The real danger is the spread of hatred in our society, which can lead to attacks on innocent people."
On the website for the AFDI, Geller critiques a journalist who has labeled her efforts as anti-Muslim, insisting that such a label “implies that every Muslim is a jihadi who wants to impose sharia and ‘eliminate and destroy Western civilization from within and sabotage its miserable house.’”

Defending her advertisements to KQED News last month, Geller said it was right to refer to Islamic worshipers as “savage,” because “any targeting of innocent civilians is savagery.”

“Mothers and children on a bus are targeted, and that is savagery. Kidnapping and murking is savagery. The U.S. does not conduct war that way, and neither does Israel. Now, there is sometimes the accidental [rip] of civilians, which is far different than the targeting of innocent civilians," she said.

Previously, Geller told Huffington Post of her ads, “If I had my way, they'd be in every city in the United States of America and if I can get the funding, that's exactly what's going to happen.”

She has successfully campaigned to have the adverts included in San Francisco and is all but certain to expand to New York in the coming days. In California, San Francisco’s transit authority promised to donate the $3,400 Geller spent on advertising fees to the Human Rights Commission.



Anti-Islamic advertisements to hit NYC — RT

damn son

[pic] they just want NYC to get attacked....


people better learn !!in with the islamic not a good idea. One of the most devout faiths out there.

wish people would pay attention and wake up

WOW.......................................

While I hate the message, I applaud the court for allowing free speech.....................

Seems kind of like BS though because they almost didn't let muslims build a mosque in the city, but they will allow blatant derogatory language to be displayed to the public. Kind of a double edged sword I guess. They disguise the racism by throwing the word "Jihad" in there.

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I understand the free speech part but Im not understanding why the MTA just can't say no, its their company they decide what Ads to put up

!!ing d|sgusting what they're trying to do man it really is

muslim is the new black

***** people smh

this is appalling. didn't read the article, just read the ad. i can't believe that the MTA actually allowed this message to be displayed on their trains. they might as well have put up a picture of a 1930's lynching for all that. were i the muslims, i'd tell every muslim in ny to boycott the mta until that !! came down and there was a public apology from the idiot marketing executive who signed off on this and was fired and a formal apology from the MTA president himself. this is blatantly racist and shows how much power jews have. they can actually promote racism and get away with it and who the !! are they to really say that they are "civilized" when they cause all kinds of conflict based on their ancient beliefs and thinking? gloomberg should be shot for this.

Sleeper Cells....

^^^^^^^^^^^^
like a mothafvcka.

God/allah/or whatever is your flavor, bless us all.

free speech that's racist??? isn't that violating another law at the same time??? so what they said jihad?? it's very implied racism. she's basically calling all "jihad"s savages. this is crazy. i read the article after my initial disgust and that a federal judge would allow this leads me to further believe that we are a country run by jews. soon to be run into the ground if you ask me.

i'm appalled. like i said in my other response, all the muslims should boycott the mta. start carpooling and say !! them because obviously they don't give a !! about muslims. as a native NYer, this is really d|sgusting to me. that gloomberg hasn't said no to this before hand shows that he's just a racist jew as well. this is !!ing crazy.

I respect you brah. you a good dude. I told you awhile back though. they kicked out the hispanics now the new blacks will be the islamic nation.. An you saw how they did us. They wont give a phuk.. [pic]

I was at the comedy cellar in nyc a few days ago and one of the comics was saying how muslims r the new black people...he wasn't lying...damn this !! is shameful

I cant believe people still waste their time with religion, stupidest concept in the history of man

ill support Israel the day my !! turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbert.. (spelling?)

unless its my taxes [pic]

Muslim here.

I understand the need to express the first amendment as an American, but really? I even understand the denial of building the masjid near the 9/11 site (even though it wasn't even that close, but whatever...we have a lot of masjids out here in NYC), but why would you be so aggressive about this?

There are a lot of muslim doctors, lawyers, engineers, business owners, etc out in NYC and we contribute to the local economy just as much as the next guy. We don't deserve to have some woman call us savages and have a concept of our religion be embarrassed like this.

Jihad doesn't even mean "war". It means "struggle". As in your personal struggle and what you're going through to get closer to god.

Example, you're an alcoholic. If you're trying to get rid of this habit, then that's your jihad...its something that you're giving up for the sake of being closer to god.

Yes, this can be taken as war, but that's only when you're rights as a muslim are infringed upon. Jihad is a beautiful concept. One of sacrifice and perseverance, and this is unacceptable.

^^^^ great post. learn something right then.

Not gonna lie, I laughed when I saw the pic.