Stay on top of what's really happening. Pamela Geller on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pamelageller Pamela Geller on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PamelaGeller Pamela Geller on Instagram: http://instagram.com/pamelageller Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs Skip to content News About Articles Categories Quotables Donate Press Books Store Subscribe Search Our Organization AFDI Sues Pennsylvania Transportation Authority for Censoring Speech AFDI Islamic Antisemitism ad Amerabia: Losing America Free Speech Silenced 5 Comments urban panel IJH While we roll out a new ad campaign next week with over 100 buses and urban panels, one of the ads in our new campaign was rejected by the Pennsylvania Transit Authority. Imagine: During the American Revolution, Philadelphia played an instrumental role as a meeting place for the Founding Fathers of the United States, who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Constitution in 1787. Philadelphia was one of the nation’s capitals during the Revolutionary War, and the city served as the temporary U.S. capital while Washington, D.C., was under construction. Look how far that once great city has fallen. All that blood and treasure to enforce the sharia. Scene_at_the_Signing_of_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States “AFDI Sues Pennsylvania Transportation Authority for Censoring Speech,” AFLC Philadelphia, PA (September 18, 2014) — Today, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), a national, nonprofit Judeo-Christian law firm, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) for refusing to run a “Stop the Islamic Jew-Hatred” advertisement on SEPTA property. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on behalf of the advertisement’s sponsors, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) and its co-founders, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. In May, AFDI submitted the below advertisement to SEPTA’s advertising agent for display on SEPTA property: As noted in the lawsuit, AFDI’s message is timely in light of the fact that many Jews (and Christians) are being persecuted in Islamic countries in the Middle East, and many of these countries receive aid from the United States. Moreover, the Israel / Palestinian conflict has drawn intense international media attention as Hamas is using human shields (mostly innocent women and children) to protect its rockets from Israel’s defense forces as the Islamic terrorist organization continues its deadly attack of Jews in Israel. Although SEPTA accepts as a matter of policy and practice controversial political-issue, public-issue, and religious-issue advertisements, it rejected AFDI’s advertisement, claiming that the ad “tends to disparage or ridicule any person or group of persons on the basis of race, religious belief, age, sex, alienage, national origin, sickness or disability.” David Yerushalmi, AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel, commented, “Across the country, we have successfully litigated cases where government transit authorities permit the Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas front groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations to run ads misleading the public about Jihad and Islamic Jew hatred. When our clients run ads exposing this Jew hatred, all of a sudden the transit authorities are worried about the ‘tone’ of the conversation and attempt to shut it down. A word of advice to government bureaucrats doing the Muslim Brotherhood’s bidding: we will sue you and you will lose. Act accordingly.” Robert Muise, AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel, added, “SEPTA’s prior restraint on our client’s speech is not only wrongheaded, it is clearly unconstitutional. Under the First Amendment, the government is not permitted to impose special prohibitions on speakers who express views on disfavored subjects or on the basis of hostility towards the messenger or the underlying message expressed, which is precisely what SEPTA has done here.”

• published: 22 Sep 2014
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