Christian Post: “America Is Surrendering Freedom of Speech as a ‘Relic of History,’ Activist Pam Geller Says After DC Metro Avoids Running Muhammad Cartoon Ads”
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“America Is Surrendering Freedom of Speech as a ‘Relic of History,’ Activist Pam Geller Says After DC Metro Avoids Running Muhammad Cartoon Ads,” By Michael Gryboski, Christian Post, May 30 2015
Political blogger Pamela Geller, American Freedom Defense Initiative’s Houston-based founder, speaks at the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest, which is sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, in Garland, Texas May 3, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Stone
Washington, D.C.’s public transportation system has rejected an ad depicting a cartoon representation of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam, by adopting a ban on “issues” ads.
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Michael Tolbert, spokesman for the Metro system, said in a statement that the ban would be in regard to any ads that are political, religious, or of a similar controversial nature and will last the remainder of the year.
The move came in response to an ad from the American Freedom Defense Initiative which submitted a request to include a cartoon depiction of Muhammad, which is considered offensive and sacrilegious to many Muslims.
Pamela Geller, founder and head of the AFDI, submitted the winning cartoon from the organization’s “Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest” that was held in Garland, Texas, earlier this month where two Muslim terror suspects were shot and killed.
“There is nothing about this cartoon that incites violence. It is within the established American tradition of satire. If America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history,” said Geller.
The AFDI’s effort to have the Muhammad cartoon on D.C. Metro trains and buses comes just weeks after their Garland event was violently attacked at the Curtis Culwell Center by the two Muslim men who opened fire near the parking lot. A lone police officer was able to shoot and kill the gunmen before they could enter the building.
Sponsored by AFDI and hailed as a celebration of free speech, the event included a contest with a $10,000 prize for the winning caricature depiction of Muhammad.
Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, both of Phoenix, Arizona, were the perpetrators of the shooting and were reportedly influenced by the Middle Eastern terrorist group ISIS.
“Simpson had worshipped at the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix for about a decade, but he quit showing up over the past two or three months, the president of the mosque told The Associated Press.”
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Blonde-Bond 007
8 years ago
Pammy doll, you know I love and adore you so much!
Please encourage people to post these signs in innocuous places (signs left in shopping carts, left on cars, left in bathroom stalls, left pretty much EVERWhere).
I love and admire you so much, Pammy. WE SHALL WIN against this creeping Sharia!
The only positive out of this, they won’t publish all the other crap that insults Isreal or promotes the real insidious hate groups like islam and all
It’s political offshoots
Those agendas are already furthered by Obama’s Praetorian Guard media, Hillary’s WMM (Winged Monkey media,) the rest of the lamestream, the universities, the public high schools, the textbook writers, the spokesliars for the White House and the State Department, etc., etc.
For the anti-American forces, the busses were merely one vector among many to spread their contagion.
For Pamela, trying to vaccinate the public with the truth, they were one option of only a few to reach the broad mass of the populace.
The iranian islamic-nazis hosted some sort of Holocaust denial cartoon contest. Infantile antisemitic cartoons have been popular in the musswein world for decades.
The Washington DC Metro, their subway, refused for 7 years to put up the full name of the nearby train stop at Reagan National Airport on their maps because they censored President Reagan.
Speaking of “Morticiaa,” that is one of the names (actually “Morticia” from the Adams Family cartoons) used for Emily Deschanel’s character on the D.C. based tv show “Bones.” At the beginning of the very first episode of that show, a plane lands at Reagan Airport and the camera zooms out to show the Capitol Building. They purposely called the location “Dulles Airport” even though Dulles is 30 miles away from D.C. and such a zoom shot would be impossible without maybe the Hubble Telescope. They just didn’t want to use the word “Reagan” on their often liberal-themed show.
vincent bruce
8 years ago
Love is God
Love rules
Our soldiers fight to save lives
They lay down their lives
There’s no greater love
Faith in Love is our Hope
America was founded on freedom of speech
islam is at war everywhere
Tolerating evil is no solution
Dr. Doomsday
8 years ago
We should be doing this, instead of whining about them..
defcon 4
8 years ago
Wow, they actually mentioned the fact the perps were musswein. That’s a three point shot for any journalist working in today’s media.
disqus_HlH4Faibhw
8 years ago
Hopefully enough of the local residents find out about this and boycott the Metro. If anybody out there is on this website, they ought to get a group together to do so.
Prinz Eugen
8 years ago
“Relic of history?” The reds on local CSPAN broadcasts boasted how they need to have “freedom of speech” to get their radical messages out, but once they take control, then freedom of speech is finished, reds hate opposition.
CAIR and the jihadests use the Bill of Rights to cover their subversion, but they believe once sultan Barry installs sharia law, then they can rise up here and turn the US into another Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Nigeria. Barry’s street thugs and punks are spreading the race war already. Barry is creating a situation here that will make the aftermath of the French Revolution look liie a Sunday School picnic in comparison.
Where is the GOP?
Terry MacPherson
8 years ago
I need some actual quran chapter : verses, that clearly identify islam as “convert or die? reply to: “[email protected]
vincent bruce
8 years ago
Google it champ, there are too many verses to quote
islam means submit
islam is child molesters and snuff films
you know islam by its fruit
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