Once again our area will be asked for restraint in the face of schoolyard bully tactics

Let's get this out of the way. This group has a right to post these billboard ads and always should have that right.

That being said.

A group calling itself the American Freedom Defense Initiative has won a court case and has decided to run an ad in ten NYC subway stations which can really only be construed as a finger in the eye to local Muslims. The ad will read:

“In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.

There you go, this is what one Pamela Geller, executive director of the AFDIEIEIO wanted posted badly enough she went to court to get it. Isn't it great? Doesn't it help advance the discussion? Even online comment trolls have a rule that once you call someone a name in the parrying, you lose the argument. Savages? Sure a smattering of Muslims commit horrific and inexcusable acts of terror. We ask you Pam Geller, would you sign off on a billboard that points out if Muslims did to generations of children what Catholic priests did with the full knowledge of the Catholic church, you'd push for Islam to be outlawed in America? Would you put one up that rightly points out Israel broke far more United Nations human rights resolutions than Iraq before the war in 2003? Every religion is guilty of savage behavior at some point. It is the nature of the beast called blind faith. Always has been.

Calling the other guy a savage really makes this American Freedom Defense Initiative look desperate.


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