Category: AFDI

In our ongoing fight for free speech with the city of Boston, we had filed a second lawsuit against the MBTA for their capricious and arbitrary flouting of the First Amendment.

Let’s be honest. If any town in America needs our pro-Israel ads, it’s Boston.

We resubmitted our pro-Israel ad, and instead of using the word savage, we substituted “those engaged in savage acts.” Ridiculous, yes, but we meant to make a point.

We fired our latest salvo against the suppression and restriction of our First Amendment rights in deference to the blasphemy laws under the sharia. The American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed its opening brief on Friday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, appealing a lower federal court ruling that denied AFLC’s motion for a preliminary injunction.

Seattle Transit refused to run the FBI’s Global Terrorism ad, so AFDI submitted it, and was refused. Of all the free speech legal battles I am embroiled in, this one is the most absurd. And the most fun, because it is so ridiculous on its face, but it illustrates the crippling submission and capitulation of government authorities to Islamic supremacist demands.

Another requirement of Bazian’s class, entitled De-Constructing Islamophobia and History of Otherness, is for students to get reactions from “people of color” on ads critical of radical Islam placed by Pamela Geller, author of the blog Atlas Shrugs.

Geller said she believes Bazian is indoctrinating students.

“The very idea that he is surveying ‘people of color’ about my ads is ridiculous and offensive. Jihad terrorism is not a race. The Islamic oppression of women, gays, and non-Muslims is not a race. What has Hatem Bazian ever said or done in defense of the non-Muslim ‘people of color’ who are victimized by Islamic jihadists in Nigeria, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan and elsewhere?” Geller said in an email to the Free Beacon.

What, pray tell, is the difference between “savages” and “those engaged in savage acts”? That is the question to which only the MBTA knows the answer. And I am not so sure that they even they know …. We have just filed a follow-up lawsuit in continuing legal fight against the MBTA for its arbitrary and absurd violation of out First Amendment freedoms.

Our pro-freedom ads went up in Tampa this week. The honor killing ad features heart-rending photos of girls who have been murdered in honor killings, and offers help to girls who are threatened. It is part of our ongoing campaign to raise awareness and bring a stop to the phenomenon of honor killing. These girls have rights, too, they’re human beings, and yet they’re completely forgotten in our politically correct culture. We’re standing for the human rights of these girls.

Another day in the Atlasphere, another freedom of speech lawsuit. I submitted the following ad to Seattle Transit in December in response another libel against Israel. I was refused. Again. I created this “Right to Live” ad in response to a recent campaign by the relentlessly antisemitic Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SeaMAC). They launched another vicious Goebbels-style blood libel against the Jews in Seattle (below).

Of all the free speech legal battles I am embroiled in, this one is the most absurd. And the most fun, because it is so ridiculous on its face, but it illustrates the crippling submission and capitulation of government authorities to Islamic supremacist demands. The FBI was running a terrorism awareness campaign, featuring bus ads depicting photos of sixteen of the world’s Most Wanted Terrorists. But then the Leftists and Islamic supremacists complained that the ads were “Islamophobic” and “offensive to Muslims,” and they came down – and unbelievably, Seattle is refusing to allow my group, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), to put them back up.

Above is the new ad I submitted in Boston. It was accepted. So savages is not ok, but those that engage in savage acts is OK? What’s the difference? It’s capricious and a clear abuse of poser by Boston authorities. Read my column today at WND…

Every American should sue in defense of the First Amendment. It’s not about Pamela Geller, it’s about America.

Good news! Our honor killing ad will be running in Florida (above). Over 90% of honor killings worldwide are Islamic, and Tampa was the site of the Fatima Abdullah honor murder.

Helping Muslim girls escape dangerous situations is “anti-Muslim,” but ads run by Muslim Brotherhood groups with ties to Hamas are “pro-diversity.” There is no diversity under the sharia. Does Bill Varian consider being anti-honor violence anti-Muslim?

Read my article, the latest on our lawsuit against Boston Transit’s sharia enforcement.

We filed our appeal in Boston, site of Marathon bombing. You would think that a city targeting by jihadists, leaving an 8-year-old boy among the dead and hundreds injured, would get it.

Last Thursday, my law firm, the American Freedom Law Center, or AFLC, on behalf of my organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, or AFDI, filed a motion asking the federal court in Seattle, Wash., to order the King County transit authorities to run our anti-terrorism advertisement featuring photos of 16 of the world’s Most Wanted Terrorists. The link to the motion is here….

Today my law firm, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), on behalf of AFDI, filed a motion asking the federal court in Seattle, Washington, to order the King County transit authorities to run our anti-terrorism advertisement….

Biased, libelous and with the name calling we have become familiar with in the war of ideas. Opposing jihad is anti-Muslim. Opposing 9/11 (New York), 7/7 (London), 3/11 (Madrid), Mumbai, Bali, Boston, Fort Hood, Kenya’s Westgate mall, Nigeria et al is “anti-Muslim.”

SEATTLE, Oct. 9 (UPI) — An advocacy group says its free speech rights were violated when officials refused to allow it to place ads featuring wanted terrorists on Seattle-area buses.

A group criticized for running purportedly anti-Islamic ads around the country has sued King County over its refusal to allow it to run a poster of wanted terrorists on the sides of Metro buses — an ad almost identical to ones pulled down earlier this summer for being insensitive to area Muslims.

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The Jew-haters are at it again. The relentless Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SeaMAC) has launched another vicious Goebbels-style blood libel against the Jews in Seattle. The ad went up this week (below).

This is not a close call. You may criticize Israeli policy toward the Palestinians and peacemaking, or toward the Arabs within Israel (although they enjoy political rights that are the envy of most residents of the Middle East), but you cannot accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing and expect to be taken seriously by those familiar with the facts.

During the hearing on Plaintiffs’ motion for temporary restraining order/preliminary injunction, the court invited the parties to further address the issue of whether Defendants have applied the MBTA’s regulations in this case in a constitutional manner. Plaintiffs contend that Defendants have not in that their application of the regulations to reject Plaintiffs’ advertisement constituted viewpoint discrimination and was unreasonable in violation of the First Amendment.1 Indeed, Defendants’ rejection of Plaintiffs’ advertisement was manifestly based upon a shifting standard of civility, consciously lowered for the anti-Israel advertisement and then raised artificially for Plaintiffs’ advertisement.

The independent free press at Boston University covered the hearing yesterday. It strikes me as odd and revealing that the writer of this article, Pariza Lovos, failed to mention (even once) the Boston Marathon jihad bombings. The bombings were mentioned several times particularly in the context of jihad. I expect that many of Pariza Lovos friends and fellow students at Boston University attended, even ran, in that Marathon. The point was made quite clearly that any reasonable person on the Boston transit system would know exactly what jihad was because of the marathon bombings. Why leave that out? It’s germaine.

It’s not lost on me that I find myself just a stone’s throw from Boston Harbor where the greatest of wars — the fight for freedom and individual rights — broke out in 1774. Nowhere, at no time, has there been a more righteous cause in the history of humankind.

Then, as today, an out-of-control government took outrageous and egregious actions against our most basic individual rights — and in this case, the most precious of all freedoms, the freedom of speech.

Sienkiewicz, who became interested in the MBTA’s pending case in federal court due to his studies in global media cultures and media theory, said the T will have to prove that their decision to deny an organization’s request to post billboards was not an infringement of their First Amendment rights. “It isn’t impossible. There is nothing wrong with banning demeaning speech, but you have to show you are doing it consistently,” he said.

We are in court again today, Boston this time, fighting for our free speech rights to oppose jihad and support Israel. I thought you should view this video — Erin Burnett of CNN and I debate the merits of free speech and our ads.

Last month, the Boston Transit Authority restored vicious anti-Israel ads that had been removed. They were taken down because of the fallacious libel they advanced. The Jew-haters strong-armed the MBTA to put them back up. We of course, countered the libel with truth. I submitted our pro-Israel ads to the MBTA, which were denied. Our message is that any war on innocent civilians is savagery. 9/11 was savagery. 7/7 in London. March 11th in Madrid. The jihad against the Jews is savagery.

The Boston Globe supports the MBTA’s viewpoint censorship of our pro-Israel ads. “MBTA’s advertising dispute: Speech without name-calling.” Even their headline mocks their position. Hmmm, do you think our founding fathers meant that when they carefully and brilliantly penned our first amendment? “freedom of speeech without name calling.” How utterly ridiculous.

American universities have become incubators of leftist fascist and Islamic supremacism. The very institutions that should be on the forefront of the battle for freedom have become the fortress of its enemy.

Do not miss my column today at WND. Read the whole thing <a href=”http://www.wnd.com/2013/11/boston-oks-anti-israel-ads-only/” target=”_self”>here. </a><br /> <blockquote><a href=”http://www.wnd.com/2013/11/boston-oks-anti-israel-ads-only/#w4jzDoFk4YWCLxWV.99″ target=”_self”><strong>DEFENDING THE WEST <a class=”asset-img-link” style=”float: right;” href=”http://www.wnd.com/2013/11/boston-oks-anti-israel-ads-only/”><img class=”asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c60bf53ef019b00f1d2f4970b” style=”width: 200px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;” title=”Savage” src=”http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c60bf53ef019b00f1d2f4970b-200wi” alt=”Savage” /></a></strong><br /><strong> Boston OKs anti-Israel ads only</strong></a><br /> Exclusive: Pamela Geller blasts city for ‘sanctioning…

Last week, the Boston Transit Authority restored vicious anti-Israel ads that had been removed. They were taken down because of the fallacious libel that they advanced. The Jew-haters strong-armed the MBTA to put them back up. And they did. We, of course, countered the libel with truth. I submitted our pro-Israel ads to the MBTA last week. They were refused ……. we have filed suit.

“The MBTA is being sued by a group that calls itself pro-Israel and anti-Islamist after a proposed subway ad was rejected, Pamela Geller of the American Freedom Defense Initiative says the organization wanted to tell its side of the story. ‘We sued the MBTA because they refused to run our pro-Israel ad after they restored a vicious and libelous anti-Israel ad.’

Here is a somewhat even-handed mainstream media accout of our lawsuit against the city of Boston, from the Associated Press. Surprising. But subtle editorialzing is imbued in the reporting. For example, “An organization that describes itself as pro-Israel and anti-Islamist” — have you ever seen a news story on CAIR that says “an organization that describrs itself as a Muslim civil rights group”?

The victims of this Jew-hating Muslim were all women. Pam Waechter, an assistant director at the federation, died at the scene. She was the mother of two children. Waechter was shot first in the chest and then in the head while she was fleeing. Christina Rexroad and Cheryl Stumbo were shot in the abdomen and critically wounded. Layla Bush was shot in the shoulder and the abdomen.

“I am a Muslim American, angry at Israel,” said American Muslim Naveed Afzal Haq. He then began “randomly shooting at everyone” at the Seattle Jewish Federation.

Watching the media spin always amuses me. For example, the Muslim Brotherhood group Hamas-CAIR is described, without fail, as a Muslim advocacy group, despite the fact that they are the public face of jihadi groups whose agenda is, in the words of their director Ibrahim Hooper, that the “government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.”

Now helping Muslim girls is “racist”: Edmonton Transit has caved in to Islamic supremacist demands and taken down our AFDI bus ads offering help to Muslim girls living in fear of honor killing.

Last week, the Boston Transit Authority restored vicious anti-Israel ads that had been removed. They were taken down because of the fallacious libel they advanced. The Jew-haters strong armed the MBTA to put them back up. We of course, countered the libel with truth. I submitted our pro-Israel ads to the MBTA last week.

At last, some common sense about our AFDI honor killing bus ads in Edmonton: “What’s outrageous is the politically correct claptrap that’s being used not only to justify removing the five ads, but to deny there is a problem with Muslim honour killings in general.”

If you missed my appearance on Ezra’s Levant’s show tonight, here it is. We placed our ads in Edmonton because human rights activists there wanted to partner with our organization to do so

Under the sharia…..

Sun News capitulates to the Islamic shame honor culture. Helping girls in mortal danger is “racist.” Please note that in this front page article, they never contacted me for comment.

I will be on Ezra Levant’s show at 5 pm today to discuss Edmonton Transit’s craven capitulation to Islamic supremacists.

Controversial ads on Edmonton Transit Service buses will be removed, and one city council member is pledging to work on ways to prevent similar ads from being allowed in the future.

How does the Canadian Muslim community respond to the desperate circumstances of Muslim girls living in devout Muslim homes? They deny, obfuscate and dissemble. The Muslim community protects the religious honor code, while smearing and libeling the truth tellers coming to the aid of these girls as “racists.” Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide.

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For all of our new TruthaboutCAIR.com ads, go here. DEFENDING THE WEST Kowtowing to CAIR – this time in Tampa Exclusive: Pamela Geller describes revelatory bus ads scheduled to run this month The mainstream media in Florida glowingly reported recently on how Tampa’s Hillsborough Area Regional Transit (HART) Board of Directors reversed its earlier refusal…

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Anti-Jihad Group to Take on CAIR with Tampa Bus Ads Pamela Geller, Breitbart News  New AFDI ad in our new campaign to launch in Tampa offering real help to Muslims Above is CAIR's ad: CAIR statement: “The original purpose of the new ad was to promote the free legal services we provide to all members…