In view of the recent anti American hate displayed by Islam in 30 countries, which just turned out to be
1 well organized and actually planned by Al Qaida and by a Gitmo released terrorist and
2 which WAS NOT a spontaneous attack caused by a video as the administration misled us to believe for over a week.
Why can't we open our eyes and accept what is actually in the Koran, what they have been saying openly for years, that Islam officially hates us and wants to eliminate us any way they can? Why should the truth cause an 'outrage'?
1 well organized and actually planned by Al Qaida and by a Gitmo released terrorist and
2 which WAS NOT a spontaneous attack caused by a video as the administration misled us to believe for over a week.
Why can't we open our eyes and accept what is actually in the Koran, what they have been saying openly for years, that Islam officially hates us and wants to eliminate us any way they can? Why should the truth cause an 'outrage'?
Islamophobic Billboard At Metro-North Station Causes Outrage One Month After Pro-Palestinian Billboard (PHOTO)
The Huffington Post | By Christopher Mathias Posted: 08/17/2012 1:04 pm Updated: 08/17/2012 2:43 pm
Pamela Geller, fresh off a court victory granting her the right to post anti-Islam ads on MTA buses,
has posted a new, large billboard on the Metro-North train platform in
Hartsdale. "19,250 DEADLY ISLAMIC ATTACKS SINCE 9/11/2001," the sign
reads. "IT'S NOT ISLAMOPHOBIA. IT'S ISLAMOREALISM."
The
ad was paid for by American Freedom Defense Initiative, the umbrella
organization for Geller's Stop Islamization of America, an organization
recently designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. (You may remember Geller from her role in the "Ground Zero Mosque" controversy.)
A
local politician is, understandably, upset about the sign. "There are
many Muslims residing in Greenburgh and in our villages," Greenburgh
Town Supervisor Paul Feiner told the Daily News.
"They should not be discriminated against. The posters encourage
hatred, discrimination and do not help the efforts to fight hate
crimes."
Feiner
also said the MTA should give profits from the sign to efforts to fight
discrimination. "I feel it's not a violation of free speech for Metro
North to put up a competing sign and it's also not a violation of free
speech if they donate the profits to an anti-defamation league or an
organization that objects to hate crimes," he said.
The Anti-Defamation League told NBC4 in a statement, “We believe these ads are highly offensive and inflammatory. Pro-Israel doesn’t mean anti-Muslim."
And
Betsy Alderidge, who lives near the train station, told The Huffington
Post in an email, "As a resident of the town, and an employee of the
Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, an
institution dedicated to teaching about the dangers of propaganda and
intolerance, and the importance of interfaith dialogue, I am offended by
this sign, which serves no purpose other than to create conflict and
spread a message of hate."
Geller defended the ad, telling the Daily News in an email:
"There is nothing hateful, mean-spirited, or offensive about opposing jihad terror. Are the facts offensive? It is, as the ad says, Islamorealistic. Islamic supremacist imams around the world foment violence, promote hatred, teach children to hate, and exhort Muslims to gain a place in Paradise by murdering infidels."
And this isn't the first time a Metro-North ad has caused controversy. Just one month ago, a Pro-Palestinian ad could be seen on train platforms along the MTA line.
The
ad-- which read, "4.7 million Palestinians are Classified by the U.N.
as Refugees," with maps showing dwindling Palestine land from 1946 to
the present-- was paid for by Henry Clifford, the chairman of the Committee for Peace in Israel and Palestine.
The ADL called the signs "deliberately misleading and biased," while an MTA spokesman told The Journal News,
"We do not decide to accept or reject a proposed ad based on the
viewpoint that it expresses or because the ad might be controversial.
The MTA does not endorse the viewpoint expressed in this ad, or any of
the ads that it accepts for display."
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