25-11-2024 10:47 AM Jerusalem Timing

Controversial Anti-Muslim Ads to Run in New York Subway

Controversial Anti-Muslim Ads to Run in New York Subway

Anti-Islam posters are due to appear in New York subway stations starting from Monday, in a new phase of the war against our sacred religion.

Anti-Islam posters are due to appear in New York subway starting from Monday, in a new phase of the war against our sacred religion.Anti-Islam Ads to run NY subway next week

The adverts, which have been ordered by an anti-Islam conservative organization, describe Muslims who call for Jihad against the occupiers as “savage”.
 Pamela Geller who runs the American Freedom Defence Initiative (AFDI), told Sky News channel that she will fight "to the death" for the what she called the “right to offend people.”

The banners read: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad."
The posters are due to appear in 10 New York City subway stations next week.

They were initially rejected by the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) because of the use of demeaning language.
But in July a Manhattan court judge ruled this was a violation of the first amendment rights of the AFDI and they should be allowed to run.

Geller told Sky News that she was unconcerned the adverts might make the subway network a target for violence.
She said: "Were there similar ads on the London buses and trains on 7/7? You know there weren't.”
"I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages,” she said, adding: ”I won't take responsibility for other people being violent.”
"I live in America and in America we have the first amendment."

For his part, Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American Islamic Relations, told Sky News: "Our basic position is that the first amendment means that everyone is free to be a bigot or even an idiot like Pamela Geller.
"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,” Hooper said, adding:  "The real danger is the spread of hatred in our society, which can lead to attacks on innocent people."