"Shocking anti-Islam ad campaign coming to MTA buses, subway stations," BY Jennifer Fermino, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, September 18, 2014
Notorious
flame-thrower Pamela Geller has paid $100,000 for advertisements
showing ISIS beheading victim and Adolf Hitler. The ads will appear on
100 buses and at the entrances of the E. 59th St. station and the
Columbus Circle station.
An incendiary ad campaign that includes an image of American
journalist James Foley just before his beheading in Syria is coming to
100 MTA buses and two subway stations.
The ads, paid for by flame-throwing blogger Pamela Geller, at a cost
of $100,000, are intended as an “education campaign” to warn of the
“problem with jihad” and Islamic sharia law, Geller said.
In one of the placard ads, Foley appears handcuffed, on his knees,
next to the hooded, black-clad jihadist who is about to execute him — an
image from the video released by the group Islamic State, which boasted
of the execution.
The ad also contains a second photo, of the Briton suspected by some
of being Foley’s killer. The Brit is shown in happier times, before he
allegedly joined ISIS.
“Yesterday’s moderate is today’s headline,” the placard says.
A second ad contains a 1940s photo of a pro-Nzi Palestinian leader
chatting with Adolf Hitler under the headline, “Islamic Jew-Hatred: It’s
in the Quran.”
In addition to the 100 buses, Geller’s ads will appear at the
entrances of the E. 59th St. station on the Lexington Ave. line and the
Columbus Circle station.
Geller is a prolific blogger who writes of a “global jihad conspiracy”
and calls President Obama a “clown” and an “Islamic apologist.”
Her ads will surely offend some bus and subway riders, but the MTA said it has no choice but to allow them.
It tried to block Geller several years ago when she wanted to post ads
in the subway that labeled enemies of Israel as “savages.”
The MTA said the ads violated its “no demeaning” language policy. But a
judge ruled that rejecting the ads violated Geller’s First Amendment
rights.
Allison Joyce/Allison Joyce for the New York D Pamela Geller, creators of the anti-jihad subway ads, speaks at an MTA meeting two years ago.
“If you read the court decision on this, our hands are tied,” said MTA spokesman Adam Lisberg.
Following that battle, the MTA updated its policy to force all
viewpoint ads like Geller’s to contain language clearly stating that the
opinions expressed are not the transit agency’s.
Geller’s new ads will contain the disclaimer.
In addition to the ads featuring Foley and Hitler, Geller has created a
placard that links the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim
civil rights group known as CAIR, to the terror organization Hamas.
“Hamas is ISIS, Hamas is al-Qaeda, Hamas is Boko Haram, Hamas is CAIR in America,” it reads.
It’s a paraphrase of a quote by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, who was stressing the links between Islamic extremists.
Netanyahu, though, didn’t mention CAIR.
“Geller is a known hater and there’s no law in this country that
forces her to tell the truth,” said Corey Saylor, a CAIR spokesman.
He said the group has considered suing her, but doesn’t think it’s worth it.
“Defamation law being what it is in this country, we understand it would be difficult,” he said.
Look who's talking, a professional liar.
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