Another court case, more savage ads. Washington Post:
A federal judge has ordered Metro to begin displaying controversial advertisements on Monday, even though the transit agency has worried the ads might incite violence.
The decision came Friday in a one-page order granting an injunction to a pro-Israel group that sought to force Metro to display provocative posters in four stations. The posters, purchased by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), will say: “In Any War Between the Civilized Man and the Savage, Support the Civilized Man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”
A spokesman for the transit agency said in an e-mail that it would comply with the court order. Metro was sued last month by AFDI after trying to delay displaying the advertisements in the wake of violence in the Middle East that was sparked by an Internet video that disparaged the prophet Muhammad.
Metro’s lawyers argued in court papers that displaying the posters would endanger the public. “Faced with the choice between endangering the public by displaying the AFDI Ad when it was likely to cause violence on Metrorail, or delaying the display to avoid the danger to passengers and without impinging on AFDI’s freedom of expression, WMATA chose delay.”
Just keep pairing it with ads like the one Methodist women put up alongside of it in New York and that thing can go up all over the country for all I care.
With Raji Sourani and Leila Shahid unable to attend, Secretary of State Clinton will attend the grand opening of Geller’s art show in their absence.
Follow the Money: From Islamophobia to Israel Right or Wrong
The people bankrolling illegal Israeli expansionism in the occupied West Bank are the same people fomenting anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S.
http://www.alternet.org/world/follow-money-islamophobia-israel-right-or-wrong
I wonder if the court would force Metro to support such an ad:
Free speech, and I’m all for it. Though the question as to what is tolerated and what is not, seems to run more in favor of avoiding injuring some folks sensibilities and not others :)