We head to SUPREME COURT to fight SAVAGE VIOLATION of FREE SPEECH: AFDI vs. Boston’s MBTA

We are taking our free speech fight to the Supreme Court. AFDI vs. Boston’s transit authority. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) refused to our two pro-Israel/anti-jihad advertisements on their buses. Yes, Boston. The MBTA claimed it was demeaning to Muslims – as if all Muslims were Jew haters and jihadists.

Wait, it gets worse. The Boston has allowed to run and continues to run vicious anti-semitic ads. Libels and lies against Israel.

Let us step back for a moment and review.

Imagine this, in a city repeatedly wracked by Islamic terror attacks –the blood of its citizens stain the streets of the city –the Boston government refused to run our ads opposing jihad.

— the Boston Marathon jihad bombing
–Last month, Boston jihadis were taken out before they  beheaded policemen and me
–This month, Abu Ali al-Amriki the Muslim convert son of a Boston police captain plotted to bomb college campus cafeterias during lunchtime (to maximize death toll) with bombs filled with nails, ball bearings and glass

And the infamous terror central: The Islamic Society of Boston, which the Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, attended has numerous connections to jihad terrorists. The Islamic Society of Boston was founded by Abdulrahman Alamoudi, the leading “moderate Muslim” in Washington throughout the 1990s. Alamoudi turned out to be an al-Qaeda financier and is now in prison. Alamoudi was also a close associate and financier of Republican power broker Grover Norquist. Convicted jihad terrorists Aafia Siddiqui and Tarek Mehanna had also been members of the Islamic Society of Boston.

The former imam of the Islamic Society of Boston, Suhaib Webb, is revered in the mainstream media as a “moderate,” but he has actually denounced secularism as a “radical lunatic ideology.” Webb also once headed up a fund-raiser for a cop killer with arch-terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki. That didn’t stop the Boston Globe from running a piece several days ago titled “Inclusive spirit reassures Muslims after bombings,” as if Muslims had been the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, not its perpetrators.

This was the same mosque about which Fox News reported after the bombing “has a controversial history, with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, terror funding and frequent fiery sermons.” USA Today added, “Its sister mosque in Boston, known as the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, has invited guests who have defended terrorism suspects. A former trustee appears in a series of videos in which he advocates treating gays as criminals, says husbands should sometimes beat their wives and calls on Allah (God) to kill Zionists and Jews.”

And now Usaama Rahim, who plotted to murder me in June for violating sharia blasphemy laws, is yet another Jihadist in Boston with ties to the Islamic Society of Boston, just like the Tsarnaev brothers and numerous other Muslim terrorists. Usaama Rahim worked as a guard at the Islamic Society of Boston.

MBTA’s Rejection of Anti-Jihad Ads Heads to Supreme Court, AFLC, July 28, 2015

Yesterday (July 27, 2015), the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), filed a petition in the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the high court to review a sharply-divided decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which upheld the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) refusal to display on its buses two pro-Israel/anti-jihad advertisements, which the MBTA claimed were demeaning to Muslims.  The ads were submitted by AFLC’s clients, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), Pamela Geller, and Robert Spencer.

This past March, a divided panel of the First Circuit affirmed the MBTA’s censorship of the ads, holding that the advertising space was not a public forum; therefore, the heightened level of scrutiny that is typically applied in cases involving government censorship of speech did not apply.  As a result, the majority held that the MBTA’s speech restriction satisfied the lower standard of “reasonableness” and viewpoint neutrality.  Circuit Judge Stahl dissented and would have held that the MBTA’s censorship violated the First Amendment.

The appeal to the First Circuit consolidated two lawsuits filed by AFLC in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.  In each case, AFLC filed a motion for a preliminary injunction, requesting that the court immediately order the MBTA to display the advertisements.  The district court denied the motions, ruling that in light of a prior controlling decision from the First Circuit, the MBTA’s rejection of the advertisements was “reasonable.”  Seeking to test the First Circuit’s precedent, AFLC immediately appealed both rulings.  The First Circuit consolidated the two cases and affirmed.

The two ads at issue appear below:

In its petition to the Supreme Court, AFLC highlights the fact that there is currently a split in the federal appeals courts regarding the First Amendment’s application to the display of public-issue advertisements on government transit authority property and that a circuit split is among the most important factors in determining whether the Court should grant review.

AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel Robert J. Muise commented:

“The Supreme Court should grant review because the First Circuit’s forum analysis, an essential prerequisite for determining how to apply First Amendment principles, conflicts with the authoritative decisions of the majority of other federal appeals courts that have addressed the question in this very context.  Moreover, the MBTA’s ‘demeaning’ speech restriction is inherently view-point based in violation of the First Amendment regardless of the nature of the forum.  In short, this case presents exceedingly important questions regarding the right to freedom of speech that the Supreme Court has not, but should, decide.”

AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel David Yerushalmi added:

“The First Circuit’s decision is fundamentally flawed because it permits the government to pick and choose which ‘political speech’ it deems acceptable, thereby doing irreparable harm to the First Amendment, which is intended to operate as a brake on the government’s power to censor speech.  Indeed, the First Amendment is intended to prevent government bureaucrats from being the arbiter of acceptable speech, particularly when that speech addresses controversial political or public issues such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  The Supreme Court needs to take up this important case.”

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Tom Guenther

8 years ago

But It is okay to fine bakeries for not making Homosexual Union (Marriage is an ordained Union of a Man and a woman with Christ at the center) cakes.

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IslamDownpressesHumanity

8 years ago

I haven’t heard/read/seen any muslums anywhere renounce any of the rabid, delusional Jew hatred in the quranus or the ahadith (which is even worse).
I hope Ms. Geller and David Yerushalmi stick it to these Boston collaborators, it would be even better if punitive damages could be awarded…

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DB Cooper

8 years ago

You know what this world really needs? Some AFDI/SIOA stickers about 3 or 4 inches square with that super strong adhesive that’s impossible to peel off.

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via alberich

8 years ago

Reply to  DB Cooper

Yes,one’s that fit in the palm of the hand so that it can be placed discretely and quickly anywhere.It should be bright orange or green and the adhesive should attack plastic/glass so as to leave a “scar”behind.

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atl slayer

8 years ago

They way they have been coming down against the side of the individual lately (and probably always) it should at least be interesting, right 🙂

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Patti York

8 years ago

It looks like we will find out once and for all if we still have the first amendment.

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8 years ago

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Mark Rosenthal

8 years ago

I’ma not sure we have any amendments still left to stand on… It’s more like only if they let you use your rights

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Globalfirm:Humanrights&ecology

8 years ago

Governments’ morality & law is rotten because it is not radically rooted in human rights & ecology.
We should teach children about human rights & ecology (ethics) & true history instead of brainwashing them into fake history & theism making them vulnerable to self destructive behavioral patterns.
They should all know that Muhammad was really the bad guy of humanity’s history.
Some people are like robots, they want to pep up their life with corrupted morality, lies & sharia tyranny.

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disqus_HlH4Faibhw

8 years ago

Pam, you should create another ad calling the MBTA islamophobic. Where did they get the idea you were talking about muslims? The word “muslim” doesn’t even appear there. In fact it would be great if you could host a rally outside their headquarters. “Down with the islamophobic MBTA”.

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John Cunningham

8 years ago

On a side note, make no mistake, the most dangerous entity to America and for that matter, the World, isn’t Isis, Iran, China, or Russia? It is Liberalism and Barack Obama is the last nail in the coffin that was America. The battle started a long time ago to take it back but, many didn’t notice. Well, they had better notice now and everybody ought to get off their dead asses and fight, fight, fight!

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DemocracyRules

8 years ago

Make bumper stickers & T-shirts with your message and get Boston hot-dog stands to sell them at a good profit margin. Run Transit ads that just say, “Buy a T Shirt from a Hot Dog Stand”.

If necessary, send volunteers out to buy up the Hot Dog stand T-shirts, then hand them out to the homeless. Make sure the Hot Dog vendors make a good turnover. Then offer the same stuff to all street vendors. Street vendors are a lot cheaper than lawyers.

“When you find yourself in an ambush, fight your way through it.” ~ US Marines

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Merchantseamen

8 years ago

Would some body please explain to me what it is with these newspaper editors running these kind of stories? I am 60 years old. I can’t believe that any major newspaper editor is much younger than 45 maybe. Are they so brain washed that they don’t seed what they are doing?? When the SHTF they will be the first to disappear but maybe not. Sort of like the editors of the Volks Beobactor. The Nazi mouth piece back in the day. But it is paper after paper after paper across the land. Is there any major newspaper that is not toeing the “party” line??

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