CAIR: NY Bus Ads Sponsored by Anti-Islam Extremists
Founder of group sponsoring ads has advocated killing all Muslims
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said today that controversial advertisements on New York buses opposing a planned Islamic community center in that city are being sponsored by groups and individuals with long histories of promoting anti-Islam hate.
The advertisements, which juxtapose a plane flying toward a flaming World Trade Center with a photoshopped image of the Islamic center planned for Lower Manhattan, are being paid for by a hate group founded by an anti-Islam extremist who has called for the killing of all Muslims.
SEE: City Buses to Get Ads Opposing Islam Center
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/10/nyregion/10mta.html
John Joseph Jay, founder of American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), wrote: "[T]here are no innocent muslims. islam is subject to killing on grounds of political expediency on the same basis as islam kills its victims, and islam cannot ethically and morally claim otherwise." [Note: Grammatical errors in the original text have been maintained.]
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The group's other founders include anti-Islam extremists Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer.
Spencer, co-founder with Geller of another hate group, Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA), has called Islam's Prophet Muhammad a "con man." SIOA is an outgrowth of a similar group in Europe that seeks to block the construction of mosques on that continent. SIOA's sister organization, Stop the Islamization of Europe, "considers Islamophobia to be the height of common sense."
Spencer's group has invited anti-Islam Dutch extremist Geert Wilders to speak at a September 11 protest against the proposed Islamic community center in New York City.
The independent national media watch group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) identified Spencer as one of "Islamophobia's Dirty Dozen" who systematically "spread fear, bigotry, and misinformation." In its report, FAIR said, "By selectively ignoring inconvenient Islamic texts and commentaries, Spencer concludes that Islam is innately extremist and violent."
SEE: FAIR Unmasks the Smearcasters - Robert Spencer
http://smearcasting.com/smear_spencer.html
Pamela Geller has claimed that "Hitler and the Nazis were inspired by Islam" and offered rhetorical support to both accused Serbian war criminal Radovan Karadzic and slain Apartheid-era leader Eugene Terre'blanche.
SEE: Pamela Geller: The Looniest Blogger Ever
http://tinyurl.com/pamgellerloony
She has posted images on her blog that include a fake photograph of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan in a Nazi uniform, another fake image of President Obama urinating on an American flag and drawings purporting to depict Islam's Prophet Muhammad as a pig. In a June 25 blog entry, Geller posted a video claiming that Muslims engage in bestiality.
CAIR Video: TV Host Exposes Pamela Geller's Anti-Muslim Bigotry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qRXffJ7Mg4
SIOA is an Anti-Muslim Hate Group
Fox Opens Its Airwaves to Anti-Muslim Activist Geller
http://mediamatters.org/research/201007280017
The United States Patent and Trademark Office refused to grant SIOA a trademark because: "The applied-for mark refers to Muslims in a disparaging manner because by definition it implies that conversion or conformity to Islam is something that needs to be stopped or caused to cease."
The attorney who sued the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority on behalf of the anti-Islam bus ad sponsors is David Yerushalmi.
Yerushalmi heads a racist hate group that has advocated prison terms for "adherence to Islam." In a 2007 commentary, he called for a "war against Islam and all Muslim faithful." He wrote in part: "At a practical level, this means that Shari'a and Islamic law are immediately outlawed. Any Moslem in America who adopts historical and traditional Shari'a will be subject to deportation. Mosques which adhere to Islamic law will be shut down permanently."
CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
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SOURCE Council on American-Islamic Relations
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