METRO Drops all Issue Ads in Response to Pam Geller

[Anonymous]

Muslima wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Muslima wrote:She is an out of control moron. Good that Metro is doing this!

-because Americans have the right to criticize any religion, except Islam.

Try announcing a public burning of a bible. Or a Torah. Or the Bagvad Gita. The left will bring marshmallows. The civil rights division will defend you.

But try expressing free speech through burning a Koran and all hell will break loose.

Don't get it twisted, this is not about free speech. Using the first amendment and the civil liberties that this country provides to instigate hate and fear for an entire religion and group of people, and inciting riots is idiotic.There is a supposedly planned armed protest by bikers in Arizona outside of a mosque tomorrow where they planned to come en masse with cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad saw. "Prior to gathering outside of the mosque, the motorcyclists say they’ll meet in a nearby Denny’s parking lot, where they’ll have a “Muhammad cartoon contest.” They plan to take the images of Islam’s prophet to the Islamic Community Center at 6:15 that evening , a time when the Muslim community is expected to gather inside." What problems, do you think if any events like this will solve? The FBI is currently investigating threatening letters that were sent to the mosque. You are kidding yourself if you think that events like this are in any way shape or form for the advancement of free speech and lastly free speech does not protect the right to incite actions that would harm others.

Kind of like the people who taunt Christian owned bakeries/pizza restaurants?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Muslima wrote:You don't get it , do you? The bikers are planning an ARMED protest. Armed men/women want to show up to terrorize worshippers at a mosque, and that is okay with you? If a group of Muslims stood outside a church with guns at Sunday service, the whole world would go nuts!

If they don't pull their weapons, it's fine with me. I can see, given what happened in Paris, and what happened in TX recently, why they would want to be sure they are armed. If they are in their legal rights to carry, they are within their legal rights. If they start shooting without physical provocation, then I will take issue.

Really? So you'll only take issue with this once they start shooting. I'm sure worshipers of any persuasion find that very reassuring. There is really something wrong with you people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Muslima wrote:You don't get it , do you? The bikers are planning an ARMED protest. Armed men/women want to show up to terrorize worshippers at a mosque, and that is okay with you? If a group of Muslims stood outside a church with guns at Sunday service, the whole world would go nuts!

If they don't pull their weapons, it's fine with me. I can see, given what happened in Paris, and what happened in TX recently, why they would want to be sure they are armed. If they are in their legal rights to carry, they are within their legal rights. If they start shooting without physical provocation, then I will take issue.

Really? So you'll only take issue with this once they start shooting. I'm sure worshipers of any persuasion find that very reassuring. There is really something wrong with you people.

Yes. Reason-being is because the Muslim community has put death threats out there towards people who draw Mohammed. And tried to carry out that threat in TX, and DID carry out that threat in Paris. The bikers are well-within their legal rights to stage the protest, as well as to carry weapons, and feel it prudent to do the latter. If that intimidates some in the Muslim community who have radical tendencies, that's a good thing. I would think that decent Muslim individuals who don't support terror from their communities would want the radicals suppressed as well.

[Anonymous]

Muslima wrote:You don't get it , do you? The bikers are planning an ARMED protest. Armed men/women want to show up to terrorize worshippers at a mosque, and that is okay with you? If a group of Muslims stood outside a church with guns at Sunday service, the whole world would go nuts!

Actually, stuff like this happens pretty routinely in Muslim countries, particularly ones with large Christian minorities. Example: Egypt, where Muslim rioters have looted and burned down many churches. The whole world, indeed, did not go nuts! See also the fun of being a Christian in Iraq. Just FYI for you, Muslima.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:Pam Geller's determination to spread hate has just cost METRO millions of dollars. In response to Geller's desire to run ads displaying a cartoon of Muhammad, METRO has decided to stop accepting issue ads for the rest of the year. METRO is not allowed to pick and choose among issue ads, so it had to accept Geller's ad it reject all issue ads.

Really, what hate are you talking about? The cartoon she wants to display shows Muhammed say "You can't draw me" and a cartoonist replying "That is why I must draw you."

I'm old enough to remember when Metro carried ads showing a photo of Ronald Reagan laughing, with scenes of poverty superposed behind him. I remember being proud that Metro allowed a diversity of opinion, and I am sad to see that they have abandoned this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny that it took Pam Gellar to finally get Metro to drop all of those anti-Israeli ads it was happily posting all around.

I'm not a fan of an outsider who tried to make millions of commuters into a symbolic target in order to prove a point.

I'm not either. What would you think if they did art work with a figure of Mohammed soaking in a bottle of urine and put it on display?

[Anonymous]

I think if Gellar is that invested in free speech, she should put billboards, placards, etc. with her hate messages on her home, car, kids' backpacks, etc.

[Anonymous]

You believers. Stop pissing on the rest of us, please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think if Gellar is that invested in free speech, she should put billboards, placards, etc. with her hate messages on her home, car, kids' backpacks, etc.

She has put her life on the line many times, and she is certainly a target now. She is a brave and courageous woman and we need more people like her.

[Anonymous]

Muslima wrote:You don't get it , do you? The bikers are planning an ARMED protest. Armed men/women want to show up to terrorize worshippers at a mosque, and that is okay with you? If a group of Muslims stood outside a church with guns at Sunday service, the whole world would go nuts!

No Muslima, we all get it. It is you who clearly does not get it.

It is highly offensive to my personal beliefs when someone burns a bible. Or an American flag. Or uses NEA funds as payment for creating a so called "art piece" named "Piss Christ."

But I support those people's RIGHT to express themselves because that is among our common American values and laws as originally set out in the BOR and constitution. In fact, I'd gladly die fighting to protect those rights as would everyone who has served our great country; I've taken an oath to uphold and protect those rights.

See here is what you don't get Muslima - we value religios tolerance in America and our tolerance is more important than your stupid religion and false prophet.

We've practiced religious tolerance in America since before there was a U.S. So if your mosque decides to hold a bible burning, then it's appropriate for me and every loyal American, to protect your right to do so, even if it means that I or the police need to stand outside with guns; ready to defend you from law breakers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Muslima wrote:She is an out of control moron. Good that Metro is doing this!

-because Americans have the right to criticize any religion, except Islam.

Try announcing a public burning of a bible. Or a Torah. Or the Bagvad Gita. The left will bring marshmallows. The civil rights division will defend you.

But try expressing free speech through burning a Koran and all hell will break loose. [/quote

Free speech has well-recognized limits. You cannot yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theater and declare it free speech. This is the rough equivalent of yelling "FIRE" in the crowded theater. Metro should be permitted to just tell her to screw off and continue accepting other issue ads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Muslima wrote:You don't get it , do you? The bikers are planning an ARMED protest. Armed men/women want to show up to terrorize worshippers at a mosque, and that is okay with you? If a group of Muslims stood outside a church with guns at Sunday service, the whole world would go nuts!

No Muslima, we all get it. It is you who clearly does not get it.

It is highly offensive to my personal beliefs when someone burns a bible. Or an American flag. Or uses NEA funds as payment for creating a so called "art piece" named "Piss Christ."

But I support those people's RIGHT to express themselves because that is among our common American values and laws as originally set out in the BOR and constitution. In fact, I'd gladly die fighting to protect those rights as would everyone who has served our great country; I've taken an oath to uphold and protect those rights.

See here is what you don't get Muslima - we value religios tolerance in America and our tolerance is more important than your stupid religion and false prophet.

We've practiced religious tolerance in America since before there was a U.S. So if your mosque decides to hold a bible burning, then it's appropriate for me and every loyal American, to protect your right to do so, even if it means that I or the police need to stand outside with guns; ready to defend you from law breakers.

AMEN!!!!!!

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

Muslima wrote:You don't get it , do you? The bikers are planning an ARMED protest. Armed men/women want to show up to terrorize worshippers at a mosque, and that is okay with you? If a group of Muslims stood outside a church with guns at Sunday service, the whole world would go nuts!

No Muslima, we all get it. It is you who clearly does not get it.

It is highly offensive to my personal beliefs when someone burns a bible. Or an American flag. Or uses NEA funds as payment for creating a so called "art piece" named "Piss Christ."

But I support those people's RIGHT to express themselves because that is among our common American values and laws as originally set out in the BOR and constitution. In fact, I'd gladly die fighting to protect those rights as would everyone who has served our great country; I've taken an oath to uphold and protect those rights.

See here is what you don't get Muslima - we value religios tolerance in America and our tolerance is more important than your stupid religion and false prophet.

We've practiced religious tolerance in America since before there was a U.S. So if your mosque decides to hold a bible burning, then it's appropriate for me and every loyal American, to protect your right to do so, even if it means that I or the police need to stand outside with guns; ready to defend you from law breakers.

According to the article referenced in the OP of this thread:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/474280.page

The police are investigating the anti-Semitic flyers that have been circulated in Chevy Chase. Shouldn't you be protesting that intrusion on freedom of speech? Why are the police trying to limit that anti-Semite's right to express himself?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Muslima wrote:You don't get it , do you? The bikers are planning an ARMED protest. Armed men/women want to show up to terrorize worshippers at a mosque, and that is okay with you? If a group of Muslims stood outside a church with guns at Sunday service, the whole world would go nuts!

No Muslima, we all get it. It is you who clearly does not get it.

It is highly offensive to my personal beliefs when someone burns a bible. Or an American flag. Or uses NEA funds as payment for creating a so called "art piece" named "Piss Christ."

But I support those people's RIGHT to express themselves because that is among our common American values and laws as originally set out in the BOR and constitution. In fact, I'd gladly die fighting to protect those rights as would everyone who has served our great country; I've taken an oath to uphold and protect those rights.

See here is what you don't get Muslima - we value religios tolerance in America and our tolerance is more important than your stupid religion and false prophet.

We've practiced religious tolerance in America since before there was a U.S. So if your mosque decides to hold a bible burning, then it's appropriate for me and every loyal American, to protect your right to do so, even if it means that I or the police need to stand outside with guns; ready to defend you from law breakers.

AMEN!!!!!!

But Piss Christ was in an art museum and adults could choose whether to go to the museum or protest it or raise hell to Congress about it and demand cuts in federal support of the arts in general. No one posted Piss Christ all over public transportation and Metro certainly would have rejected it if someone had tried to pay for ads to do so.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:Pam Geller's determination to spread hate has just cost METRO millions of dollars. In response to Geller's desire to run ads displaying a cartoon of Muhammad, METRO has decided to stop accepting issue ads for the rest of the year. METRO is not allowed to pick and choose among issue ads, so it had to accept Geller's ad it reject all issue ads.

Pam Gelled did not make the decision to forego potential ad revenue.

The metro board made that decision. Funny, they had apparent qualms about the anti-Israel/anti-Semitic ads they have accepted and displayed for years.