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“If you don’t want to see what happened in Libya and Egypt after the video — maybe not so strong her
"Our hands are tied," Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) spokesman Aaron Donovan told The Associated Press . "Under our existing ad standards as modified cheap hotels in west hollywood by the injunction, the MTA is required to run the ad."
The advertising campaign was orchestrated by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, or AFDI, whose executive director radical conservative blogger Pamela Geller, is a fiery critic of Muslims, liberals and mainstream Jewish cheap hotels in west hollywood organizations, The Jewish Week reported.
In 2011, the Southern Poverty Law Center branded AFDI a hate group, while the Anti-Defamation League said in March that Geller "fuels and fosters anti-Muslim bigotry in society," The Jewish Week said.
Geller, as head of a group called 'Stop Islamization of America', helped spur a months-long campaign two years ago to remove a planned Islamic community center blocks from the World Trade Center site, which she called the "ground zero mosque." Geller was one of several prominent anti-Muslim activists cited by the Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik in the manifesto he posted online hours before killing 77 of his countrymen, mostly teenagers, at a left-wing youth camp in August 2011, according to a profile on the Southern Poverty Law Center website.
At first, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) had refused cheap hotels in west hollywood to run the advertisement in September 2011 because it claimed that it violated the MTA's policy against displaying "images or information that demean an individual or group of individuals on account of race, color, religion, national cheap hotels in west hollywood origin, ancestry, gender, cheap hotels in west hollywood age, disability or sexual orientation," a company press release said.
the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), a national non-profit Judeo-Christian law firm, filed a civil rights lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of FDI, Geller, and Spencer, challenging the speech restriction.
On July 20, 2012, Federal cheap hotels in west hollywood Judge Paul A. Engelmayer issued a preliminary injunction, ruling that the MTA's speech restriction violated the First Amendment. However, the court granted the MTA thirty days to attempt to cure the violation by amending its "no-demeaning" regulation.
The order converted the preliminary injunction into a permanent injunction, and it declared that the MTA speech regulation violated the First Amendment right to free speech. The judge also awarded FDI nominal damages.
"The court found the MTA's regulations on noncommercial ads violated the First Amendment. The MTA board may consider revising those regulations at its meeting next week in executive session," MTA added in a statement issued on September 18., says RFE/RL news.
The 'Defeat Jihad' ad comes in the wake of recent protests in Arab countries and in Arab communities around the world over the anti-Muslim video "Innocence of Muslims." Violence linked to the movie has left at least 30 people in seven countries dead, including cheap hotels in west hollywood the American ambassador to Libya, The AP reported.
"If it's not a film it's a cartoon, if it's not a cartoon it's a teddy bear," she told NYC's WPIX-TV . "What are you going to do? Are you going to reward Islamic extremism? I will not sacrifice my freedom so as not to offend savages."
Opponents of the ad such as Muneer Awad, the executive director for the Council on American Islamic Relations of New York, say it promotes an anti-Muslim message and seeks to imply that Muslims are savages.
"In understanding how the term savage was used to demonize and de-humanize, not only minority communities ...but indigent people. They should realize – red flags should go up when they see these advertisements", said Awad.
"We encourage, we promote the freedom of speech. And we believe in her freedom to be a bigot and to be a racist. But we also believe in the responsibility of us as New Yorkers to denounce that bigotry," he added.
"They're accusing me of what's in my mind. They're accusing me of thought cheap hotels in west hollywood crime. My ad is very clear. There is no ambiguity in my ad. People are searching, and trying cheap hotels in west hollywood to broad stroke all Muslims as supporters of jihad, and supporters of Islamic-Jew cheap hotels in west hollywood hatred. I don't' believe cheap hotels in west hollywood that", said Geller.
"If you don't want to see what happened in Libya and Egypt after the video — maybe not so strong here in America cheap hotels in west hollywood — you shouldn't put this up," Yasar said. But "if this is a free country, they have the right to do this," he said. "And then Muslims have the right to put up their own ad.'
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