Judge Backs Blogger Over Anti-Islam Bus Ads
Friday, July 20, 2012 - 12:36 PM
An anti-Islam activist has won a preliminary round in her First Amendment fight to place New York City bus ads calling enemies of Israel "savages."
Federal Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan says he agrees with blogger Pamela Geller. He says the Metropolitan Transportation Authority should not have rejected Geller's ad.
Geller is the executive director of the American Freedom Defense Initiative. She publishes a blog called Atlas Shrugged that warns of growing "Islamization."
The MTA rejected the group's bus ad. Its standard says ads should not demean individuals or groups based on race, religion or other protected categories.
Engelmayer granted a preliminary injunction on Friday barring the MTA from enforcing the standard.
A conference in the case is scheduled for Aug. 29.
The MTA had no immediate response Friday.
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If it wasn't for oil they would be publicly considered savages. Are wiccans or neo-pagans respected? No. Then, why a political ideology with a religion coat that at the highest echelons does nothing? And please, forget the Inquisition and the crusades card and the Timothy McVeigh card. It is the now that counts and as retrograde as the christians can be, they are not advocating murder at the highest echelons. A crazy, loser pastor? The Catholic has helped with hospitals, schools, leprosoriums and all priests and nuns are not corrupted. The Jewish religion might not have these kind of services but they have advocated liberal views and ideological progress. I studied in a Christian school and they couldn't be more liberal. We had an openly gay teacher, they never questioned my family's atheism, etc. Not all muslims are for this craziness but as long as we cannot build churches or liberal centers in their countries they shouldn't build mosques here or be allowed to proselitize in prisons and the army. No religion that prohibits the full development of a person should be condoned. Too much PC creates extremism.
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