http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pam-geller-muhammad-cartoon-bus-ads
Pamela Geller's anti-Muslim group, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, will attempt to launch a new ad campaign in Washington, D.C., using the winning image from the group's controversial Muhammad cartoon contest held in Garland, Texas.
Geller, who has pushed for controversial anti-Islam ads in big city transit systems before, said she submitted the ads to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) in the hopes that the cartoon will run on city buses and in Metro train stations.
"Because the media and the cultural and political elites continue to self-enforce the Sharia without the consent of the American people by refusing to show any depictions of Muhammad or showing what it was in Texas that had jihadists opening fire, we are running an ad featuring the winning cartoon by former Muslim Bosch Fawstin from our Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in Garland, Texas," Geller wrote in a statement on Breitbart.
Two gunmen were killed when they opened fire on officers outside of the heavily guarded cartoon contest held earlier this month. Despite the attack on the event and criticism from conservatives, Geller has continued to defend the event, arguing that it's an issue of free speech.
"Drawing Muhammad is not illegal under American law, but only under Islamic law. Violence that arises over the cartoons is solely the responsibility of the Islamic jihadists who perpetrate it. Either America will stand now against attempts to suppress the freedom of speech by violence, or will submit and give the violent the signal that we can be silenced by threats and murder," Geller wrote on Breitbart. "We cannot submit to the assassin’s veto."
Although the American Freedom Defense Initiative has pushed for controversial ads on public transportation before, the previous ads did not include depictions of the prophet Muhammad, which is considered blasphemous in the Muslim faith.
okay short and sweet, here's hoping, this is a matter of disrespect for another and their religious beliefs given her associations you gotta think she is right wing and spewing evangelical bigotry with an eye towards creating more violence and attacks they on the right wing deny their disrespectful acts toward Islam as being the catalyst for some of the acts of violence against Americans but had they not happened i think they would not have taken place and the right wing would continue making up bogeyman scare mongering.
does she anticipate a 2016 loss and trying to create another war front for next Pres.??? they loke to cry wolf about their freedom to worship while denying it to others the hypocrisy is thicker than molasses in Feb. ok ok i failed miserably at the short and sweet thing +o) but we all need to get the right wing lies by the short hairs and hang them out for those who might not know we are our brothers and sisters an uncles and friends and all family's keepers we are the counter vto right wing and republican selfishness. recognize energize and exercise it. the end +o)
