NYC Transit Authority Sharia enforcement: ‘Political’ Ads On Islam Prompt Metro-North to Review Policies

Here's the million dollar question. Scores of anti-Israel ads ran in cities across the country for years. Why didn't those anti-Jewish ads cause the transit authority to review its policy? But one ad, our ad, citing a fact, the tens of thousands of deadly attacks since 911 all in the cause of Islam, is the catalyst for the transit authority to restrict of free speech in accordance with the blasphemy laws under the sharia.

This in the city that suffered the bloodiest attack on American soil, 911.

This AP headline is incorrect and misleading. The anti-Israel ads prompted no one to do anything except me. The anti-Israel ads prompted me to run ads exposing the global jihad, which led to this capitulation to sharia.

And if ads addressing Islam are political, why does it deserve religious protection? If Islam is a political system, one that threatens freedom and democracy, it should be treated as such. This is where the government must be challenged.

Political Ads On Islam, and Israel, Prompt Metro-North to Review Policies
August 23, 2012, AP

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Metro-North Railroad is reviewing its
policy of allowing noncommercial messages at commuter train stations as a
flurry of ads offer views on Islam and the Israel-Palestinian dispute.

The Hearst Connecticut Media Group reports ( http://bit.ly/NJnsu1
) that the most recent ads at some New Haven Line stations link Islam
to terrorism. Billboards paid for by the American Freedom Defense
Initiative tell commuters, "It's not Islamophobia, It's Islamorealism."

Pamela
Geller, a blogger who runs the American Freedom Defense Initiative,
said she hopes commuters who see the billboards "will gain a new
understanding of the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat."

Geller
said the ads, which will run through Sept. 2 were bought to counter
platform ads critical of Israel. The billboards were financed by retired
Wall Street broker Henry Clifford of the Committee for Peace in Israel
and Palestine.

Ads showed a map of Israel
labeled "Palestinian Loss of Land — 1946 to 2010," depicting a gradual
transfer of land to Israel during the decades-long conflict.

Clifford,
an 83-year-old Essex resident who purchased the ads for $25,000, said
he wants to present the point of view of Palestinians that he said is
often lacking in the United States.

"Our posters show historical information without any editorial comment," he said.

The
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which is the parent organization
of Metro-North, says it is reviewing its policy on non-commercial ads.

"The
MTA does not decide whether to allow a proposed advertisement based
upon its viewpoint and the MTA does not endorse the viewpoint in this or
any other paid advertisement," it said.

A
federal judge issued an injunction last month, finding that the MTA
violated free speech rights of Geller and the AFDI by rejecting an ad it
considered discriminatory against Muslims. The judge said MTA's policy
prohibiting ads it considered "demeaning to individuals or a group of
individuals" inhibited AFDI's right to express its opinion.

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Gleaner1

11 years ago

It now seems Americans cannot give Europeans lectures anymore about Europeans Dhimmi status. We could do with a “British” Atlas Shrugs, would you know anybody like your good self in UK Pam?

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Laura

11 years ago

“Our posters show historical information without any editorial comment,” he said.
………………………………………………………………………
The posters showed historical revisionist lies.

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Katlyn Epstein

11 years ago

We have to consider the source. You and your organisation are listed as a hate group by several hate watch groups like SPLC. You only reach out in hate. Likewise with your ads.

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Katlyn Epstein

11 years ago

Try reaching out in a positive nonprofiling way. Maybe you will do better.

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InfidelForLife

11 years ago

In a world where good is evil and evil is good, one can hardly expect anything else.
And the all this talk about “profiling” Muslims – they are not even mentioned. Nor is Islam. B that logic, maybe if the Jews had spoken nice things about uncle Adolf in a positive nonprofiling way he wouldn’t have killed 6 million of them, right? Suuuure.
The world has gone completely insane.

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Core Beliefs

11 years ago

I can only think of one answer:
For the time will come, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts will they multiply to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they will turn away their ears from the truth, and will be turned to fables.
2 Timothy 4:3-4

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Betty Pierce

11 years ago

if you live by the evil book the quran you live only for evil lies, murder,rape of children,eth,eth, and hell is not full yet. satin is waiting for for you.

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Clare

11 years ago

Post those anti-Israel ads. Post them and the dates that they ran. And post who sponsored them and the cost. Compare and contrast, bring into the light of day each ad. Then post the number of pro-Isreal ads, the dates they ran and the cost and who sponsored them (yes, it may be only one – yours). Also do this for the city of San Fransisco. I know, the difference is already glaring, but the evidence presented would be a terrific indictment of the scourge of cultural relativism in the USA imposed by the threat of Muslim’s Shiria becoming the law of the land – freedom of speech eradicated through the threat of the smears of Islamic enablers who call the truth “hate speech” and only now a policy review is at hand.

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Clare

11 years ago

Reply to Katlyn E.
How do you figure that exercising our First Amendment right is “reaching out”? Perhaps you will do better if you examine motive.
The truth is not always positive. Are you advocating that we Americans should keep our mouths shut if the truth of one’s actions is evil and thus results in savage acts of violence?
Non profiling = cultural relativism. I renounce cultural relativism. Long live the Jewish people, long live Netanyahu, and long live the great State of Israel. God bless America, the best nation in the world and land that I love.

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EthanP

11 years ago

We all know the real reason. “A coward dies a thousand deaths”. Keep up the fight Pamella.

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