Posted on 01/31/2015 12:03:02 PM PST by Rummyfan
A group that is sharply critical of Islam recently bought space for anti-Islam ads on San Francisco buses. San Francisco had a First Amendment obligation to allow such ads; as a court recently held, once a city opens up a bus advertising program, it may not reject such ads based on their anti-Islam viewpoint.
But earlier this week, some people pasted over parts of the ads with a picture of Ms. Marvel, a Muslim American superhero recently introduced by Marvel Entertainment, and with stickers bearing various messages, including “Free Speech Isn’t a License to Spread Hate.” Is this action itself constitutionally protected free speech, as some have suggested?
No — just as it wouldn’t be protected free speech to take a pro-religious-tolerance advertisement (or a mosque advertisement) and paste anti-Islam messages over it. People have no right to just attach their own messages to city vehicles. Indeed, attaching messages that write over lawfully purchased advertising messages likely qualifies as “[d]amag[ing]” another’s property, or as “[d]efac[ing]” it by “mark[ing]” over it. (Attaching stickers is considered “mark[ing]” property, and marking is considered defacing even if it’s easy to remove. The statute I cite requires that the defacing or damaging be done “maliciously,” but that would likely be understood here as simply requiring that the defacing or damaging was done intentionally, rather than by accident.)
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Does Ms. Marvel wear a burkha?
Ms marvel has been around a long time. Marvel recently changed a few characters to different races / sexes. They’ll change them back eventually. It’s just a marketing ploy.
But it’s okay to paint black slashes over anything Jewish or Christian and also to paint hateful slogans over them but don’t you ever dare mock Islam.
The futile crescent strikes again.
“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.”
—Benjamin Franklin
Unless it's hate for Christians - that's not just a right but a sacrament for the Left.
If they have ads for Bazooka bubble gum, is the gum halal?
Free Speech — to contemporary liberals — has always meant shouting down opposing viewpoints.
They made the character Arabic. She wears a full body suit akin to the modest swimsuits they wear with a mask around her eyes.
It’s a total PC maneuver meant to soak up money from liberals.
Yes it is. I will go further to write that hate is a basic human emotion and in someways can be positive. It all depends on how and what you do with your hate. The one thing you don't want to do is leave hate bottled up inside you, that's when things get bad.
I’m up for it. Let’s go!
HIS STATEMENT:
"If hooking up one rag head terrorist prisoner's testicles to a car battery to get the truth out of the lying little camel shagger will save just one Canadian or American life, then I have only three things to say: 'Red is positive, black is negative & make sure his nuts are wet."
It’ vandalism and censorship but not anti free-speech in the 1st Amendment context. Only government can violate the 1st Amendment.
I guess that you could have representations of Ms. Marvel that were not flattering to Islam.
I think my first post on FR was a Don Cherry post about his views about 9/11.
The guy is class and always supports the troops.
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