Bill de Blasio says ads, which aim to ‘tell the truth about Islam,’ are ‘outrageous and inflammatory.’
By The Associated Press and Haaretz
New York City’s Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Friday that an anti-Islamic ad campaign on the city’s buses was “outrageous, inflammatory and wrong.”
The ads, which will appear on 100 New York City buses and two subway entrances next week, have “no place in New York City, or anywhere,” he said in a statement to the Daily News.
The ads are paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative run by blogger Pamela Geller. She says the campaign highlights points about Islam ignored by government and media.
On its Indiegogo page, the campaign claims to “tell truths about Islam and jihad that government and media ignore.” “It’s not islamophobia, it’s islamorealism,” the Internet page says.
Transit officials have rejected an ad from the same group that includes the phrase “Killing Jews.” The six approved ads show an image of beheaded American journalist James Foley standing next to his killer.
The ads are meant to parody the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ “My Jihad” campaign, which portrays jihad as an individual, nonviolent struggle.
“These hateful messages serve only to divide and stigmatize when we should be coming together as one city,” de Blasio said Friday.
“While those behind these ads only display their irresponsible intolerance, the rest of us who may be forced to view them can take comfort in the knowledge that we share a better, loftier and nobler view of humanity,” he added.
The American Freedom Defense Initiative is planning to sue the MTA, claiming its decision to nix the latter ad violated the group’s freedom of speech, The New York Times reported.
“They’re wrong,” said Geller, the group’s president. “And when they’re wrong, they make it easy.”
Bill de Blasio is wearing a sign on his back , it says :
“If you’re Islamic – kick me! Thank -you”
‘outrageous and inflammatory.’
The truth is outrageous and inflammatory – and herein lies the media bias – they want to manipulate the public so that the public never feels outrage about the simple truth. Of course then they might also get outraged about the corruption between the rich and the politicians.
…“can’t have that… the sheeple gotta stay quiet and well behaved”
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Sp-it-take!
Well, being blown up certainly gets you airborne and up into the lofty stratosphere.
How do Islamic terrorists get to qualify as noble humanity?
Does oil wealth make them noble?
Ah, the religion of lo-on and pieces.
Singalling ourselves out is not delivering an accurate message. It implies that the war is between Jews and Islam. If the ad read Islamic Infidel Hatred….. It’s in the Quaran. STOP HATRED…END ALL AID TO ISLAMIC COUNTRIES. This would encompass ALL who are at risk.
If this was an ad campaign in Israel then of coarse it could read as above. However, Jewish Israelis don’t need to be warned about the evils of Islam.
Western politicians will be the death of us. Pamela Geller’s ads simply state the truth as written in the koran. As long as we keep pretending that the problem is limited to Isis, al qaeda or one group or another rather than to Islam itself, then we are doomed to fighting endless wars to no avail.
Living not far from NYC, I can tell you that DeBlasio is a Marxist America-hater who is pandering to (let’s be honest here)an anti-white and anti-capitalist minority voting base and self-loathing leftist whites.
He will destroy the city beyond any repair. Think Detroit writ large. Or think “Escape from New York” as reality, not fantasy.