Posted on 09/09/2012 10:56:56 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Ads running on San Francisco municipal buses, paid for by noted anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller and her American Freedom Defense Initiative, have sparked controversy about hate speech and fears they could stoke more violence against the American Muslim community. The ads come at a time when American Muslims have suffered at least nine attacks across the nation over a two-week period in August.
The advertisements, cribbed from an Ayn Rand quote, state: "In Any War Between the Civilized Man and the Savage, Support the Civilized Man. Support Israel, Defeat Jihad." The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified the American Freedom Defense Initiative as a hate group.
The outcry has focused on discrimination against adherents of Islam, and rightly so. On Aug. 10, pigs' feet were strewed on the lawn of a mosque in Ontario, while Muslim worshipers in Hayward were pelted by oranges and lemons as they walked into prayer. In Illinois, an acid bomb was thrown at an Islamic school and shots were fired at a mosque. In both cases, worshipers were inside attending to Ramadan prayers. A mosque in Joplin, Mo., was torched and burned to the ground, and other mosques in Oklahoma and Rhode Island reported incidents of vandalism. In Panama City, Fla., a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a Muslim family's home.
Geller's ads demonize Muslims at a time when they are under attack.
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Yep. If there’s one thing Muslims should fear, it’s the TRUTH!
Oh.. that's good. That's really, very good. :-)
While I agree with you wholeheartedly, I still believe a CA is necessary to properly codify it legally.
“Nobody wants *violence* against moslems’’.. Speak for yourself.
“They do most of the stoking themselves’’<. Damn right they do, the worthless Saracen bastards.
I'm talking about the ones in this country.As I said...non-citizen moslems (who've committed no crimes):get out and we won't bother you....citizen moslems:make sure you're always looking over your shoulder (if you choose to stay).
Why would any nation concerned for it’s survival and safety want ANY Muslims in it?
Agent Smith has a very poor understanding of how ecological balance works. No organism on the planet “instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment.” External forces produce the equilibrium, much like constitutional checks and balances.
Also a virus is not an organism.
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