Who's Behind the Anti-Islam Ads on MTA and Muni?
Pam Geller, the blogger who warned America about nefarious Shariah turkeys, strikes again.
They're popping up on public transit all over New York and San Francisco: Advertisements sponsored by anti-Muslim blogger Pamela Geller that imply Muslims are "savages," dismiss "Islamophobia" as "Islamorealism," and urge passengers to "support Israel" and "defeat jihad."
This isn't the first time Geller, who warned America about "stealth halal" turkeys last Thanksgiving, has used a public transit ad campaign to get her views out. In 2010, she sponsored ads attacking a proposed Islamic Community Center near Ground Zero as a "Mega Mosque" celebrating the 9/11 attacks. Another ad campaign Geller sponsored offered help to those who may have a "Fatwa on [their] head" and are considering "leaving Islam." This time, her ads, which are sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI)—one of the many anti-Islam groups Geller is associated with, were so controversial that New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority initially rejected them.
One of Geller's ads features a paraphrase of an Ayn Rand quote, "in any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man." The text also urges people to "support Israel" and "defeat jihad." When the MTA rejected that ad on the grounds that it was defamatory towards a group on the basis of religion, Geller and her attorney David Yerushalmi (the man behind much of the anti-Shariah legislation being proposed in conservative states) sued.
Yerushalmi, who once proposed making "adherence to Islam" a felony, wrote a letter to the MTA in which he argued that the ad referred to behavior rather than a group of people. "[The ad] mentions neither individual nor group and it intends none."
US District Court Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, after browsing Geller's website, concluded that when "read as a reasonable person would, the AFDI Ad plainly depicts Muslims...as 'savages.'" But Engelmayer also ruled that Geller's ad was protected speech and that the MTA's standard forbidding demeaning ads was unconstitutional because it was not evenly applied.
more:http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/08/anti-islam-ads-mta-muni
Probably BFF's with Ryan and Bachmann 
