Monday, October 08, 2012
DC to get anti-Jihad ads too
The D.C. transit system must allow a pro-Israel ad that equates Muslim radicals with savages, a federal judge ruled Friday. A spokesman for the Metro system said it would comply with the judge’s decision and that the advertisements would go up over the weekend.
“The result is absolutely correct,” said David Yerushalmi, a lawyer representing the American Freedom Defense Initiative, the organization behind the advertisements. “There simply was no way under the First Amendment jurisprudence that we have today that this ad should not have gone up when contracted.”
The one-page ruling from U.S. District Judge Mary Collyer follows a similar court order in New York that cleared the way for anti-jihad ads to go up in that city’s subway system last month. The ads read: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”
The New York ads went up in 10 stations across Manhattan on Sept. 24. Since then, two religious groups say that, starting Monday, they’ll hang ads urging tolerance alongside the anti-jihad ones. The ads also appeared recently on city buses in San Francisco, where some have been defaced or have had words removed.
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It's rather astonishing that an "allegedly rational" person (would not) equate the conduct of radical Mulsims with what any intelligent peson would view as savage behavior.
Then again, you have the self-loathing, guilt-ridden, Jews of the far-left who apparently feel that seeing radical Muslims for what they actually are, is offensive.
I wonder what the Hebrew word for dupe is.
My new pigs name is Prophet Mohammed.
This story notes the proper response on both sides.
We allow the speech which some may find offensive, and respond with our own speech giving our view.
Either side wins according to the strength of their arguments.
"Since then, two religious groups say that, starting Monday, they’ll hang ads urging tolerance alongside the anti-jihad ones."
And this is EXACTLY what America is all about, but people just keep missing it. The tolerance ads have just as much right to hang as the anti-jihad ads. I commend the court for actually upholding the Constitution.
So, one group puts up an ad against jihad (war) and another group puts up an opposing ad urging tolerance? Tolerance for what, war?
Tolerance for freedom of speech. After all, pro-war (in this case, jihad) speech is protected speech just as is anti-war (anti-jihad) speech.
No, the tolerance suggested by the new ads implies that the one against jihad is "intolerant". The fact is that no one should have to tolerate savage people who murder at the drop of a hat. Nor should anyone have to apologize for being intolerant of such people.
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