Monday, December 22, 2014

Trigger alert for San Francisco progressives!

A message from Pamela Geller:

We won...again

Last April, we submitted our now-famous Islamic antisemitism ad to run on San Francisco buses to counter the vicious Jew-hatred campaigns that are run across the country by groups like the American Muslims for Palestine.

This ad will be going up on 50 buses in San Francisco.



Our ads were refused by the SFMTA and their sales agent TITAN. We have spent the last months fighting these opponents of free speech. Today I write you about the excellent news of our magnificent victory.

The transit authority wanted us to remove a historical photo demonstrating the alliance between Hitler and the leader of the Muslim world, Haj Mohammed Effendi Amin el-Husseini. We would not scrub the truth about jihad from our ads. The media and the culture have scrubbed the truth from the information battlespace; it's the reason why we run our ads.

Rob's comment:

People at KALW were perplexed about the ads: Why are there anti-Muslim ads on our public buses? Turns out that there's some kind of darn First Amendment---KALW didn't capitalize it---loophole that allows people to say things that upset anti-Semites and their clueless progressive enablers:

“You know, the ads are offensive and terrible,” says Nasrina Bargzie with the Asian Law Caucus. “We work very closely with members of the Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian communities, and the way we found out about them is literally people just started calling and texting me. They're calling Muslim people ‘savages.’ What are we gonna do about this?” The first AFDI ad appeared on a Muni bus in 2012. It read: “in any war between the civilized man and a savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel, defeat Jihad.”

Of course the ad referred to violent jihad, not Muslims, though, not coincidentally, all violent jihadists are Muslims. But when your mind is clogged with delusional political and religious ideas---and ignorant of the First Amendment to our Constitution---it's apparently hard to read and comprehend simple English.

Recall that San Francisco went through this First Amendment teaching opportunity more than two years ago. Maybe our schools don't teach the Constitution---or how to read---any more. 

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2 Comments:

At 8:23 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I suppose even a rouge jihadist holding a knife to one of the SF uber progressive politicians would not change anyone's view...they would merely dismiss it as a one-off insane person.

 
At 5:28 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is this the same group that took out a full page in yesterday's New York Times? It showed pictures of young gay Palestinians being arrested and killed and mentioned Israel was the ONLY country in the Middle East that allowed gays their freedom and offered safe haven to gay refugees from neighbor states. It was very powerful and also showed side by side pictures of a gay freedom march in Tel Aviv vs. young men waiting in line to be executed by hanging in Iran.

 

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