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| Anti-Israel ad on Seattle buses sparks response in kind |
| 2010-12-23 |
| During a controversy over an upcoming Seattle Metro bus advertisement decrying "Israeli war crimes," two groups said they intend to run their own ads that show Israel as a victim of terrorism. The David Horowitz Freedom Center has submitted an ad to Metro Transit showing a burning Israeli bus next to the phrase "Palestinian war crimes — your tax dollars at work." The ad is in response to an ad by the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign "The issue here is very simple. If they want to run their ads we're going to run ours," Horowitz said in an interview. Stop Islamization of America, a group associated with fighting the Ground Zero victory mosque, also announced its intention to place an ad on Seattle buses on Tuesday. A news release indicates that group's ad proposal says, "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Islamic Jihad." Seattle Metro received 2,000 e-mail messages commenting on the anti-Israeli ad through Tuesday, most of them from outside King County and most against the ad. Ed Mast, a spokesman for the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign, wondered whether the competing ads are congruous with Metro regulations. "I think that we followed the rules," he said. "We have been scrupulous in following the rules and avoiding hate speech and not showing photos of violence and carnage in action, in having things approved, in telling the unspoken side of the truth." About Stop Islamization of America's reference to "the civilized man and the savage," Mast said, "If that's not hate speech then I'm living in the wrong planet." Seattle Metro was advised by lawyers that it could not refuse to approve the "Israeli war crimes" ad under current guidelines. Under those guidelines, Metro won't accept bus ads "so insulting, degrading or offensive as to be reasonably foreseeable that it will incite or produce imminent lawless action ... ." |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #5 sorry that last paragraph shouldn't be italic - its not part of the quote - messed up closing tag. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-12-23 23:08 |
| #4 Controversy prompts Metro to ban all non-commercial ads (link) SEATTLE - The uproar over an inflammatory anti-Israel ad proposed for Metro buses has prompted King County officials to not only reject the ad but to temporarily ban any and all non-commercial ads on buses. The new ban applies to any non-commercial ads, including political advertisements and ads by Planned Parenthood, the Humane Society and other non-commercial organizations Note that it temporary. I take that to mean that as soon as the uproar ends they will put up the planned parenthood, pro-abortion, and other leftist ads back up. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-12-23 23:04 |
| #3 Latest is that the ads will NOT be allowed. |
| Posted by: USN,Ret 2010-12-23 21:59 |
| #2 The local Seattle press is taking a cautious stance on this, but reading between the lines they seem to favor the anti-Israeli ads over David's. go figure. |
| Posted by: USN,Ret 2010-12-23 18:38 |
| #1 If your serious about banning hate speech, ban the Koran. From Islam on Trial: The ProsecutionÂ’s Case against Islam By Amber Pawlik: I originally did a small study. I wanted at least 30 samples because statistically, so as long as there are 30 samples, the central limit theorem applies, i.e. the sampling is large enough to be statistically significant. I tried to think of a fair way to pick samples. Had I gone through and just pointed to verses, I likely would have gotten accused of cherry picking. So I took verse 10 from randomly chosen Suras. I did this to show I was not picking one verse over another. I ended up with 34 verses. You can read the verses I took along with commentary regarding what context the verse is in, why I assigned it to the category I did and the calculations of my confidence interval here. I was really quite pleased with the results: I felt they provided a nice broad overview of the Koran and even captured one good verse! It also hit some of the bigger but smaller aspects of the Koran - the fact that it mentions Noah's Ark many times (where it gleefully describes how the infidels drowned); that it thinks infidels are utterly thankless; that Allah actually makes nonbelievers not believe, etc. These were the results 18/34 (52.9%) - over half - of these random verses is vitriol aimed at infidels. 6/34 (17.6%) Deal with Allah 5/34 (14.7%) Deal with believers 4/34 (11.8%) Deal with Day of Judgment or Day of Doom 1/34 (3.4%) ... is a good verse! (Do not steal from the poor / Give to the poor) |
| Posted by: Rupert Chirt2546 2010-12-23 14:21 |