[ April 23, 2024 ]
Good observations on Seattle Transit's sharia enforcement:
"Senseless in Seattle: Pamela Geller anti-terror ad causes new fireworks" by Joe Saunders, Biz Pac Review, August 19, 2013
Activist Pamela Geller is in a new tangle over public transportation advertising after Seattle Transit
in King County, Wash., refused to run her ad showing the FBI’s most
wanted terrorists – an ad identical in all meaningful ways to one it
accepted a month ago.Story continues below advertisementIn an article posted on Breitbart.com,
Geller writes that Seattle Transit turned down ads her American Freedom
Defense Initiative wanted to put on the system’s buses to replace
similar ads the FBI had purchased but then removed because of political
pressure from Seattle’s Democrat congressman Jim McDermott.The 16 “Most Wanted Terrorists”
featured on the ad are all Muslims, from various parts of the world,
including the United States, according to Geller’s account.That fact, and Seattle Transit’s policies of political correctness, make the ad unacceptable, Geller wrote.
Seattle Transit informed Geller’s group, the American Freedom Defense
Initiative, that it would not take the ad because it violated the
transit system’s advertising policies in three ways: that it was “false
or misleading”; that it was “demeaning or disparaging”; and that it was
“harmful or disruptive.”
Two out of three of these reasons are nonsense, Geller writes. The ad
is true – the 16 men pictured in it are the FBI’s most wanted
terrorists. The ad is only demeaning or disparaging to a group of people
only in that they might share the same faith as those pictured, which
is a little like saying a picture of Bernie Madoff as a con man is
automatically demeaning to Jews.
The third reason is the one that counts, and it’s the worst reason of all.
Seattle Transit determined that the ad “so objectionable that it is
reasonably foreseeable that it will result in harm to, disruption of or
interference with the transportation system.”
“So, in other words,” Geller writes, “they won’t run this ad
depicting the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists because those Most Wanted
Terrorists might blow them up. And so Seattle bows down before the
terrorists. It isn’t the first time, and won’t be the last.”
Geller’s incendiary approach to Islamic terrorism has gotten her into
fights over advertising before, and she’s on the right side again. It’s
a twisted logic that rejects material that accurately depicts some
Muslims as being terrorists because it reflects badly other Muslims,
while at the same time justifying the rejection as saying it could cause
violence from other Muslims.
It’s classic liberalism in action again: denying reality at the same
time as accepting it, and all the while denying you’re doing either.
There’s no other word for it. It’s crazy.
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10 Comments
10 years ago
Sue, sue, sue.
10 years ago
It’s hardly Pamela’s or the FBI’s fault that the wanted terrorists are musslimes; might it be there is something in islam that leads to a preponderance of terrorists among its adherents.
10 years ago
Seattle is a great place for Muslims to hide, stockpile explosives, and plot their next act of terrorism. Like the 19 firemen that died because Liberals refused to manage the forest properly the next act of terrorism may just be because Liberals have made Seattle a comfortable nest.
10 years ago
“It’s classic liberalism in action again: denying reality at the same time as accepting it, and all the while denying you’re doing either.
There’s no other word for it. It’s crazy.”
I have searching for a way to express this. I have never heard it stated so well.
10 years ago
Is this the same Seattle where the police are giving the potheads little incentives to “smoke ’em” and then turn their heads when those under legal age are indulging in the foggy habit?
Sure seems that the Creeping Crud is migrating up the Left Coast on its way north to colder climes.
10 years ago
I am beginning to think all these forest fires we are having are coming from the muslims that want to destroy AMERICA. just a thought. that is in their training now you know.
10 years ago
@ Betty…I agree. Every time I see another fire ravaging on the news in the US (or anywhere else for that matter),I have my suspicions that it was started by muslimes, after all their goal is to destroy the West, so what better way to start.
10 years ago
I think the back story is that Seattle Transit ran the ad when it was sponsored by the FBI, but would not for the SFDI. Pam has got such a case for discrimination that I’m surprised Seattle made this decision. Oh well, I guess they have to make their pro-sharia “bones”.
10 years ago
the ads only “cause(s) new fireworks” because of the pressure of CAIR and other Muslim “civil rights” groups and of political correctness. there was nothing wrong about the ads showing key terrorists, most of whom were Muslims simply because most terrorists in the world today ARE Muslims. of course to CAIR the only thing they saw was “Islamophobia.” anything viewed a threat, even imagined, will be targeted.
10 years ago
Seattle is now officially an “arrest-free zone” for terrorists! Come one, come allah! Whee!
Muslims are disparaging to humans (and it’s all official, too: right in their Qur’ans). Also, there cannot be any copyright infringements on anything the government does – do the people own the government, or not?! If so, we own the copyrights on all of “our” government department designs, too! If not, then they own us as their slave subjects.
