[ April 24, 2024 ]
Actually it’s AFDI 5, Fascists 0.
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“Controversial ‘Killing Jews is Worship’ posters will soon appear on New York City subways and buses after judge orders MTA to run anti-Muslim group’s ads,” By Associated Press and Daily Mail Reporter
–Ad was created by pro-Israel lobby American Freedom Defense Initiative
–Federal judge sided with the group, ordering Metropolitan Transportation Authority to run the posters because it is protected speech
–MTA officials claimed in lawsuit the ‘Killing Jews’ ad could incite violence
–The judge wrote in his decision MTA and Chairman Thomas Prendergast ‘underestimate the tolerant quality of New Yorkers’A controversial pro-Israel advocacy group known for publicly criticizing Islam can display its political advertisement containing the phrase ‘Killing Jews is Worship’ on New York City’s buses, a judge ruled this week.
Judge John Koeltl said in a decision made public Tuesday that the incendiary ad is speech protected under the First Amendment.
He said he was sensitive to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s claim that the poster could incite violence and appreciates the efforts necessary to prevent violent attacks targeting Jewish people.
AFDI 1, MTA 0: A federal judge has ordered the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to run on its buses anti-Islam ads featuring the phrase ‘Killing Jews is Worship’ created by the pro-Israel lobby American Freedom Defense Initiative
But he noted that substantially the same advertisement ran in San Francisco and Chicago in 2013 without incident. He added that examples of violent attacks cited by the MTA show that individuals may commit heinous acts without warning.
Koeltl also noted that the MTA and Chairman Thomas Prendergast ‘underestimate the tolerant quality of New Yorkers and overestimate the potential impact of these fleeting advertisements.’
‘Under the First Amendment, the fear of such spontaneous attacks, without more, cannot override individuals’ rights to freedom of expression,’ Koeltl said in a ruling dated Monday.
He delayed enforcing his order to run the ads by a month so it can be appealed.
MTA spokesman Adam Lisberg said the agency is disappointed in the ruling and is preparing a response.
It came in a lawsuit filed last year by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, an organization headed by firebrand blogger Pamela Geller that’s behind the advertisement.
David Yerushalmi, a lawyer for the organization, said the decision ‘sends a strong message both to government bureaucrats who would restrict our freedom of speech based upon what they perceive to be a global jihadist threat, and it also sends a telling message to our enemies abroad and at home: Their threats of violence will not prevent the courts from upholding the First Amendment.’
The lawsuit said Geller’s group buys the advertisements to express its message on current events and public issues ‘including issues such as Islam’s hatred of Jews.’
The lawsuit was filed after the MTA notified the group in August that it would display three of four proposed posters but not an ad with the quote ‘Killing Jews is Worship that draws us close to Allah’ because it could incite violence.
In the ad, a man’s menacing face wrapped with a checkered scarf is shown next to the quote, which is attributed to “Hamas MTV.” It is followed by the words: ‘That’s his Jihad. What’s yours?’
It also includes a disclaimer that the ad’s display does not imply the MTA’s endorsement of its views. The MTA, whose buses and subways have been forums for policy debates, has accepted other ads from the American Freedom Defense Initiative.
In September 2012, subway stations in New York featured AFDI posters that read: ‘In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.’
Two years later, Pamela Geller’s group agreed to pull an ad from the subway system showing captive journalist James Foley with the masked militant who decapitated him in the moment before the beheading.
In a September statement, the MTA said it recognized that the ‘Killing Jews’ ad was a parody of ‘MyJihad’ ads sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which said it was promoting the concept that jihad is an individual and personal struggle rather than a violent conflict or terrorism.
Koeltl said he recognized that the MTA believes it would be far more difficult to counter the advertisement because it has parodic aspects.
But he said he believes the agency underestimates ‘the power of counter-advertisements to explain that the MTA does not endorse the ad and that the ad is not to be taken seriously.’
Monica Klein, a spokeswoman for Mayor Bill de Blasio, noted in a statement that the mayor has said ‘these anti-Islamic ads are outrageous, inflammatory and wrong, and have no place in New York City, or anywhere.’
‘These hateful messages serve only to divide and stigmatize when we should be coming together as one city,’ she added. ‘While those behind these ads only display their irresponsible intolerance, the rest of us who may be forced to view them can take comfort in the knowledge that we share a better, loftier and nobler view of humanity.’
Firebrand: Right-wing blogger Pamela Geller is one of the founders of the controversial group behind the anti-Islam ads
Firebrand: Right-wing blogger Pamela Geller is one of the founders of the controversial group behind the anti-Islam adsThe Truth Must be Told
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16 Comments
8 years ago
Dear, thanks for what you are doing ! ; )
8 years ago
Has anybody seen the piece by Allen West on these ads? He has completely misunderstood the message, and is attacking the ads and siding with MTA and against the judge. I wrote a comment but I’m not sure it will be enough. Someone should be contacting him because he has many followers, and his comments may be damaging to our cause.
8 years ago
Reply to
Charles Martel
Charles, I searched for that but cannot find his attack on the ads. I see where he refers to a Washington Times article on the ads but see no endorsement of any of its critics. West is well aware of the Hamas attitude as evidenced here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO-Rxhh1X2M#t=185
Can you provide a URL?
8 years ago
Controversial group ? What, pray, is controversial about supporting Free Speech and the civilized man ?
8 years ago
This ad controversy is symbolic of the world’s denial about islam. Kill, kill, kill, islam never changes. Yet, amazingly, Pam’s ads have become more shocking than the crimes they expose, more controversial than the crimes themselves!
Clearly the world is cowering to islam. Our leaders are shooting Pam the messenger, because it’s far easier than confronting an islamic bully. But like the little choo choo that could freedom and human rights has found a home on the side of a bus. So unpretentious they ride, so pedestrian a place, yet so glorious in purpose. Pam’s ads are so dignified in truth, so well-meaning in message, that even on the side of a muddy, smelly bus they can’t help but be magnificent.
Oh, Pam, I wish I could kiss you.
8 years ago
Reply to
JacktheRipper
Well your name being JacktheRipper I believe Pamela will rather not have a kiss (joke).
8 years ago
Reply to
joker
Oh, my name, that’s just to scare muslims. For Pam I’d be JacktheLover. 🙂
8 years ago
Reply to
JacktheRipper
You said it! Why is it, that the ad’s are gathering more controversey than the crimes? The mudslimes want us to accept and view these crimes as just another part of life!
8 years ago
God Bless you Pamela Geller for making a difference.
8 years ago
“Mayor Bill de Blasio, noted in a statement that the mayor has said ‘these anti-Islamic ads are outrageous, inflammatory and wrong”
WRONG??
Another LIE. Truth is indeed ‘the new hate speech’, Pamela.
8 years ago
Reply to
Jim Fox
De Blasio is to New York what the Obamatollah is to America: a menace to economic growth and prosperity, and national security. Both are Fifth Columnists and imposters.
8 years ago
Sadly, Pamela Geller is one of the few voices to tell the truth about Islam. If people read the Koran (in English) they will understand that she is right on the money: to be phobic of Islam (Islamophobia) is logical…Islamists (Muslims) behead people.
8 years ago
Thank you Pamela for your courage and leadership against islam and hatred. In islam, “the notion of free speech flows only in one direction. ” people like de Blaiso and monica klein are stupid and have no clues about islam and what’s going on in this country and around the western world. God bless Pamela and the AFDI. Stop ALL moslem immigration to the US.
8 years ago
The truth needs to be told or we are all lost as nobody wants to believe that Islam is a satanic cult because of the lies fed to them and the muslims themselves that it is a religion of peace and that it is only bad people who are portraying the religion in a bad light and not the true religion yet it is muslims killing committing genocide like it did to the Armenian Christians in 1915 before there was a country called turkey and to this present day. If you are a Jew or a Christian we are hated and targeted for death and persecution and this is why we should not go.to help these people abroad on humanitarian missions unless in huge army supported groups as you WILL become PREY to these slaughterers as infidels they see us as weak because of OUR humanity towards others in distress as a Loving God we follow teaches us to Love one another and do the right thing except OUR God made it clear “thou shalt not kill”!, so when is the world going to wake up to this Evil and declare Islam is behind even Hitler and stop our world from islaminization and stop the rot and their demands on our people and stop allowing them special privileges
8 years ago
You have a lot of hate in your heart Pamela. May Allah rid your heart of all the hate and anger. Assalum alaikum
