San Francisco bus ad: 'Killing Jews is worship that draws us closer to Allah'
The ad above is appearing on buses in San Francisco, and this time it was not placed by the
jihadis. It was placed by Pam Geller's American Freedom Defense Initiative and it's meant to show
the reality of jihad. The ads have San Francisco Leftists bouncing off the walls.
Several San Francisco city leaders, including District Attorney George Gascon, have condemned the campaign.
“San Francisco won’t tolerate Islamophobic bigotry,” said Gascon.
“The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to look
the other way and do nothing.”
Board of Supervisors President David Chiu said the American Freedom
Defense Initiative is made of “well-known hate extremists” and said he
is introducing a resolution at Tuesday’s board meeting to denounce the
ads.
Geller said the ads were a response to another bus ad campaign earlier this year by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
That campaign sought to disassociate the word “jihad” with violence
and reclaim its meaning as “the struggle,” which is a central tenet of
Islam.
Could someone please explain to me why quoting
the very words that the Islamic terrorists use is 'Islamophobia'?
Labels: American Freedom Defense Initiative, bus advertisements, Islamic terrorism, Islamophobia, jihad, MyJihad, Pamela Geller, San Francisco
Turkey doesn't like this
Turkey's Daily Zaman is upset about the ad above which has appeared in the streets of New York under a campaign called
My Jihad. In a story titled '
Anti-Islam extremist group depicts Erdogan as terrorist in public ads,' they complain about everything from a purported common law trademark violation for the use of the phrase '
My Jihad,' to a claim that a group whose
raison d'etre is defending Israel is actually an '
anti-Islam extremist group' (Hat Tip:
Joshua I).
A pro-Israeli, anti-Islamic
extremist group, known for running anti-Muslim ads in the New York
subway, has depicted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as a terrorist
in ads targeting the concept of jihad in Islam.
The anti-jihad ads were designed
by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) as a response to
“MyJihad,” a public education campaign that seeks to share the proper
meaning of jihad as believed and practiced by the majority of Muslims.
MyJihad has been running various ads on buses and trains in cities
across the US, in which it has tried to show the global values of Islam
with such slogans as "My Jihad is not to judge people by their cover.
What's yours?" and "My Jihad is to build friendships across the aisle.
What's yours?"
The AFDI, widely known for its controversial attacks on Islam,
apparently designed its ads in the same way but with the opposite aim.
One of the ads shows the angry face of Erdoğan next to a passage from a
poem by Ziya Gökalp, a Turkish sociologist and writer, that Erdoğan
famously recited in 1998.
If Erdogan said it (which they admit that he did) and Erdogan believed and believes it (which he does), then what right do the Turks have to complain? All AFDI is doing is telling the truth that's concealed beneath the 'My Jihad' obfuscation.
Labels: American Freedom Defense Initiative, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, MyJihad, Recep Tayyip Erdogan
BART: Anti-Israel ads are okay, pro-Israel ads are not
Two weeks ago, I reported that San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system had decided to accept advertising from StandWithUs to counter ads from the deceptively named
Jewish Voice for Peace (which might be more appropriately called the Jewish Voice for Suicide). Those ads were supposed to start running this past Monday.
Pam Geller reports that BART has been accepting ads from Electronic Intifada for about a month and a half now. Yet, they have
turned down ads from her organization - the American Freedom Defense Initiative - because they are not 'content neutral.'
Pam's ads appear in this post.
On Thursday, I reported that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is
suing the City of Seattle and King County to force them to run anti-Israel bus advertisements from an organization called Stop30billion-Seattle.org. I trust that the ACLU will also be filing suit against the city of San Francisco and BART to force them to run Pam's ads.
Oh wait. You mean they won't?
More
here.
Labels: American Freedom Defense Initiative, bus advertisements, San Francisco, Seattle
