New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority must run advertisements promoting a film called “The Muslims Are Coming!” in subways, a federal judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon’s decision on Wednesday countered an MTA policy instituted in April that had banned political ads from subways and buses after an anti-Islamic ad by Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative caused controversy.
The ads promoting “The Muslims Are Coming!” contain phrases such as “The Ugly Truth About Muslims: Muslims have great frittata recipes” and “Those Terrorists Are All Nutjobs,” with the word “nutjobs” replacing the word “Muslims,” which is crossed out, Reuters reported.
“An arbitrary conclusion by some official at the MTA, untethered to any articulated or articulable standard, that an advertisement including the word ‘Muslims’ is political, is utterly unreasonable,” McMahon wrote in her opinion.
The film, which was released in 2013, chronicles a team of Muslim-American comedians who challenge stereotypes perpetuated by Islamophobia. It contains commentary from figures such as Jon Stewart, Lewis Black and Rachel Maddow. The directors are Iranian-American comedian Negin Farsad and Palestinian-American comedian Dean Obeidallah.
The MTA resolved on April 29 to ban political ads after the American Freedom Defense Initiative attempted to run an ad that said “Killing Jews is Worship that draws us close to Allah.” A federal judge had ruled a week earlier that the MTA had to run the ad under the First Amendment’s protection of free speech.
3 thoughts on “New York Subway Must Run ‘Muslims Are Coming!’ Ad”
I just can’t put into words the sorrow I feel for the innocent and the anger I feel for those inciting hate.
Its “free speech” – let it run.
Then we can all put up adds on buses with Rabbi Ovadia Yosef calling all non jews “slaves” and “lower life forms” with “no soul” and other lovely stuff like that.
Our traditional enemy has not a led to stand on. Muslims should not be afraid, every time a bunch of hill billy’s stake out a Mosque Muslims should be happy as can be and get down there with their own placards that read – “Islam preaches Jesus as a Great Prophet and His Mother as Blessed. Judaism teaches that Jesus boils in hot shit in hell and His Mother is a whore.”
It is so easy to defeat these racist, rabid lunatics of Judah’ism. Where is the Muslim leadership?
One anti tank missile system with 8 rounds cost $800,000. Imagine what Mark Glenn, Trevor Labonte and Jonothon Azzaziza could do with that in a programmed, thought out, strategised, targeted campaign showing Judah’ism for the psychotic 5000 year old, washed up, danger to mankind that it is.
1. Large bill boards on trucks, car trailors.
2. Town meetings – well organised with heavy handed no bull shit security to put the fear of God into trouble makers.
3. Weekly panel discussion group – high production values. Good humoured. Speak about what Alex Jones wont speak about.
4. Street activism with portable bill boards, flyers, placards, DVD’s with Ted pikes ‘Why The Mid East Bleeds” etc.
No one is doing this and it is a an absolute disgrace. No organization, just fighting and sniping and mental illness and arm chair generaling from a Facebook page.
The sooner the internet is scrubbed, the sooner people will be forced to abandon it and do what Judah’ism is most terrifed of – middle class tax paying slobs being informed (in STREET activism) of who has them enslaved to a mortgage, who sent their manufacturing job to China and who is sending American high tech jobs to israel and GUTTED the American dream and Constitution.
Well said Bob Smith.
It will also be a way to run the Jews out SIMULTANEOUSLY, which must be done:
I just can’t put into words the sorrow I feel for the innocent and the anger I feel for those inciting hate.
Its “free speech” – let it run.
Then we can all put up adds on buses with Rabbi Ovadia Yosef calling all non jews “slaves” and “lower life forms” with “no soul” and other lovely stuff like that.
Our traditional enemy has not a led to stand on. Muslims should not be afraid, every time a bunch of hill billy’s stake out a Mosque Muslims should be happy as can be and get down there with their own placards that read – “Islam preaches Jesus as a Great Prophet and His Mother as Blessed. Judaism teaches that Jesus boils in hot shit in hell and His Mother is a whore.”
It is so easy to defeat these racist, rabid lunatics of Judah’ism. Where is the Muslim leadership?
One anti tank missile system with 8 rounds cost $800,000. Imagine what Mark Glenn, Trevor Labonte and Jonothon Azzaziza could do with that in a programmed, thought out, strategised, targeted campaign showing Judah’ism for the psychotic 5000 year old, washed up, danger to mankind that it is.
1. Large bill boards on trucks, car trailors.
2. Town meetings – well organised with heavy handed no bull shit security to put the fear of God into trouble makers.
3. Weekly panel discussion group – high production values. Good humoured. Speak about what Alex Jones wont speak about.
4. Street activism with portable bill boards, flyers, placards, DVD’s with Ted pikes ‘Why The Mid East Bleeds” etc.
No one is doing this and it is a an absolute disgrace. No organization, just fighting and sniping and mental illness and arm chair generaling from a Facebook page.
The sooner the internet is scrubbed, the sooner people will be forced to abandon it and do what Judah’ism is most terrifed of – middle class tax paying slobs being informed (in STREET activism) of who has them enslaved to a mortgage, who sent their manufacturing job to China and who is sending American high tech jobs to israel and GUTTED the American dream and Constitution.
Well said Bob Smith.
It will also be a way to run the Jews out SIMULTANEOUSLY, which must be done:
http://citizensamericaparty.org/americanfreedom.htm
http://911truthawakenings.org/OpenLettertoNRA.htm
http://citizensamericaparty.org/America_Under_a_Jewish_President.htm