PRO-ISRAEL ADS IN NEW YORK UPHELD BY
COURT, ANGERING MUSLIM-AMERICANS -- BUT MUSLIM AND ISLAM WERE NEVER MENTIONED
IN THE AD,
SO THEY SUPPORT JIHAD?
SO THEY SUPPORT JIHAD?
Any war that targets
innocent civilians is savage. Period. These "irate" Muslims sanction
jihad and Jew-hatred. That is what they are saying.
I never see US Muslims marching against jihad. Or supporting
Israel's right to exist. Where are they? Instead, they issue threats if our ads
go up. And, brother, are they going up.
Radwan and others tell
Bikyamasr.com that if the ads go up, “there will be widespread anger and
protests against what to almost all common person is blatant hate speech
against Muslims and Muslim-Americans.”
You'll notice Muslim was not in the ad -- neither was Islam.
Muslim Americans have a strong role in the US,
but anti-Islamic sentiment continues.
NEW YORK: Most Muslim-Americans have lashed out at proposed advertisements be
placed on New York City buses that call enemies of Israel “savages.”
Muslims argue this is hate speech and they should be removed immediately.
But a federal judge in Manhattan, Paul Engelmayer, said he
agree with blogger Pamela Geller that her First Amendment right allows the ads
to continue, sparking much concern that Islamophobia in the United States is
being allowed to grow and has found support in the judiciary.
“If we decided to put ask for ads saying Israel and Jews
were savages, we would be protested and the court would agree with them
that they are hate speech so I don’t see the difference here,” said
Muslim-American and CUNY student Omar Makram Radwan.
The Pakistani-American, who has lived all his life in New
York City, told Bikyamasr.com that “this sort of hate speech is now being
tolerated by judges and as Ramadan hits it is very unfortunate. People are
angry.”
The judge, however, said that the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority (MTA) was wrong in rejecting Geller’s ads.
Geller is the executive director of the American Freedom Defense
Initiative. She publishes a blog called Atlas Shrugged that warns of growing
“Islamization” in the United States and around the world.
The MTA rejected the group’s bus ad, arguing
that advertisements should not “demean individuals or groups based
on race, religion or other protected categories.”
Engelmayer, in his injunction on Friday, barred the MTA from
enforcing its own standards. The case is to be heard again on August 29, and
could force the MTA to allow the ads to be placed in public view.
Radwan and others tell Bikyamasr.com that if the ads go up, “there
will be widespread anger and protests against what to almost all common person
is blatant hate speech against Muslims and Muslim-Americans.”
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