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| 'Hate group' sues to re-run ads on Metro buses |
| 2013-10-09 |
| Posting this because of the obvious bias of the reporter By LEVI PULKKINEN Seattlepi.com SEATTLE -- An anti-Muslim organization has sued the King County for refusing to allow the purported hate group to re-run controversial FBI advertisements on Metro buses. For the record I don't think Pam Geller's group hate, or even dislike, all muslims - neither does the FBI. This is targeting TERRIROSTS - it is the mind of the reporter that links Terrorism with Muslims. Metro previously allowed the FBI's "Faces of Global Terrorism" announcements to appear on the buses before the bureau pulled the ads. The FBI ads - which picture 16 terrorism suspects, most of whom are non-white, Muslim and living overseas - were dropped in June over concerns they perpetuated negative stereotypes of Muslims. So, in this alleged reporter's mind only whites should have been pictured. The New York-based American Freedom Defense Initiative and organization president Pamela Geller have sued King County claiming the county is violating the free speech rights of the organization's members by not allowing it to replicate the defunct FBI ads. Geller's better known organization, Stop Islamization of America, has been named as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center. I consider being named an hate group by the SPLC a badge of Honor. Geller gained some national attention for opposing an Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan in 2010, which she and Robert Spencer - vice president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative and a plaintiff in the King County lawsuit - famously and falsely described as a "victory mosque" celebrating the Sept. 11 attacks. Geller has more recently made outlandish claims about President Obama's parentage, denied the ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims and established close ties to white supremacist organizations. According to the Anti-Defamation League, she and Spencer were cited in the manifesto of Anders Behring Breivik, a Norwegian gunman who killed 77 people on a political retreat. Following the tragedy, Geller said the slain campers were playing "anti-Semitic war games," had a "pro-Islamic agenda," and were not "pure Norwegian." I thought this article was about the bus advertisement. I guess its really a hit piece on Geller and Spencer. The pair have also used advertisements on public property to spark controversy, most recently by buying ads in New York City describing Muslims as "savages." Now that is a flat out LIE. Savages everywhere demand an apology. Now, Spencer and Geller would like to replicate an FBI announcement previously posted on the sides of Metro buses as well as billboards around Seattle. According to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, Metro rejected the American Freedom Defense Initiative advertisement on the grounds that it is misleading, demeaning and disruptive. Attorneys for the group contend Metro simply doesn't like the message and is limiting speech inappropriately. Among the critics of the FBI ads was U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Seattle, D- Al-Qaeda is more like it who faulted the ads for "pointing a finger at a group of people, profiling them." It profiles TERRORISTS! If, in your mind, terrorist == muslim then its your problem. "I don't think that's fair and I don't think its good for our society," McDermott told The Associated Press in June. "It doesn't make us safer." We also have a habit of profiling criminals, murderers, kidnappers, baby-rapers and sleezy politicians - and that is GOOD for society. |
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