A pro-Israeli poster
comparing Muslims to barbarians will soon be displayed in New York
City’s subway stations following a US court order allowing such hate ads
to be posted in public.
The inflammatory billboard advertisement, which reads, "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel, defeat Jihad,” has presumably been financed by radical conservative blog writer Pamela Geller and is to be installed at 10 different metro stops.
The New York Metropolitan Transit Authority had reportedly refused to put up the insulting banner in response to an earlier attempt by Geller, and that is when she took the case to US courts on the grounds of freedom of expression.
US District Judge Paul Engelmayer in New York issued a ruling, ordering city officials to install the anti-Islamic banner advertisement for public display, based on the First Amendment right of free speech.
Meanwhile, Director of the New York Chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) Muneer Awad blasted the US ruling, insisting that his organization recognized "freedom of speech issues and [Geller's] right to be a bigot and a racist" but New York authorities should have at least censured Geller's attempts of showing off her indecent expression of hate and bigotry.
Geller is a co-founder of the "Stop Islamization of America" foundation, which has been described as a hate group by international nongovernmental associations.
An identical Islamophobic banner had earlier been posted on public buses in the Western US city of San Francisco through August and September.
The development comes as millions of protesters throughout the Muslim world have been waging angry anti-US rallies for the release of a derogatory video clip against Islam and its highly-revered prophet on a US-based Internet site. Source
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A camerawoman stands between a provocative "Pro-Israeli" ad and Egyptian-American activist Mona Eltahawy who defaces it in the name of protesting racism.
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