D.C. Metro Blocks Muhammad Cartoon Ad with Convenient 6-Month Ad Moratorium

[DCPatriot]

D.C. Metro Blocks Muhammad Cartoon Ad with Convenient 6-Month Ad Moratorium
Warner Todd Hustin


On Thursday, Washington D.C.’s mass transit authority decided that, instead of being forced to sell ad space for a free speech campaign featuring the winning entry of the “Draw Muhammad” art contest, they would put a ban on all PSA and advocacy advertising for six months.

The ads were to feature a drawing of Muhammad holding a sword and saying, “You Can’t Draw Me!” along with a banner saying, “Support Free Speech.”

The drawing was the winning entry in Pamela Geller’s “Draw Muhammad” art contest and free speech celebration that was held in Garland, Texas, earlier this month. The event was interrupted by gunfire when two jihadis tried to crash the event and murder its participants. Both were quickly dispatched by local police and security guards and caused little damage.

As to the bus and train ads, courts in several jurisdictions have repeatedly ruled in Geller’s favor, telling mass transit authorities from coast to coast that they must allow the ads if they take any PSA or issue advocacy ads at all.

Regardless, as of Wednesday, May 27, the Muhammad ads are not going to appear in D.C.

With its sudden ban on PSAs, the board of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority took its cues from the Philadelphia transit system which also banned all advocacy advertising in order to squeeze out from under a court order that said it had to take similar anti-sharia ads if they were going to take ads from other advocacy groups. In the end, authorities in Philly decided it was better to forgo millions in advertising dollars than have to take the anti-sharia ads.

Metro officials also gave another reason for the ban. They said they feared violence from Muslims. According to Washington Post reporter Paul Duggan, a “Metro official says agency fears a cartoon ad of the Prophet Muhammad would make buses and subway stations ‘terrorists targets.'” And so, with all that in mind, the authority placed a ban on all PSAs through the end of the year.

More at:  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/28/d-c-metro-blocks-muhammad-cartoon-ad-with-convenient-6-month-ad-moratorium/

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[DCPatriot]

I'm patiently waiting for the pro-abortion ads to be removed......   

[flowers]

Sharia, coming to your town soon.

[NavyCanDo]

On one hand - Christians heads are being cut off, captives being burned alive or shot and thrown into mass graves, congregations of people being blown up - what do I care if someone is offended by a cartoon?

On the other hand - I would not board a bus displaying this ad, because it may as well read:  - "WARNING, this bus has a high probability of exploding and everyone on board being incinerated alive.

 

[sinkspur]

I can understand the cartoon contest. 

Now,however, Geller's just showing her ass. Taunting, rubbing it in Muslim faces is a bit silly. 

We all know she hates Muslims.  She's going to become a victim of these animals and nobody's going to care.