ADFI's END-OF-YEAR 2012 CAMPAIGN: PLEASE SUPPORT US TODAY!
It's time of year again. Reflect, re-evaluate and respond. And what is most important above all things? Our Freedom! With the re-election of Obama, the continued power and malevolent influence of Islamic supremacists in government and media, jihadi revolutions in Egypt, Libya, Gaza, Tunisia, et al, Hamas's growing international stature, the Palestinians' new status at
the U.N., the continued progress of Iran's nuclear program, the reemergence of
Al-Qaeda, we need to be even more aggressive. More engaged.
We are continuing on offense. Help us. Seriously, where is your money more effectively spent? Scroll this email. Look hard. Most organizations are all talk, we are all action.
We can't do it without your support.
Once
again, our organization and websites have done groundbreaking work with
unprecedented results. There is no group that can match our strategies,
initiatives, media and legal warfare and our success. No one. Our work
in 2012 was monumental. And that was fresh off our 2011 victories, most notably, defeating the Ground Zero mosque.
We never retreat. We refuse to accept a dark future. We fight. We will
continue on the offense, but we can't do it without funds. And it is
going to get worse, much worse, under Obama 2.
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Just this week we announced our latest offensive kicking off in Chicago and following Hamas-CAIR across the country.
AFDI JIHAD AWARENESS CAMPAIGN:
AFDI has created a brand new ad campaign to fight the disinformation and propaganda
campaigns of Islamic supremacists and Muslim Brotherhood groups in
America. Our new ads will counter the new deceptive #myjihad campaign
by unindicted co-conspirator Hamas-CAIR and are a truth antidote to CAIR's
deceptions.
It is reprehensible
to put a happy face on mass murder, ethnic cleansing, honor violence,
religious persecution, etc. Look how powerful Hamas-CAIR says I am:
CAIR-Chicago executive director Ahmed Rehab, who's behind the campaign, told the Sun-Times the term "jihad"
has been twisted by groups such as Geller's so that its true meaning is
obscured and the word is most closely associated with "holy war." ...
Really? Tell that to Osama bin Laden, Nidal Hassan, Anwar Awlaki,
Meshaal, Sheikh Qaradawi, et al, and millions of jihadists all over the
world.
Our new campaign focuses on how jihadists use the texts and
teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism. It uses actual quotes
by jihadis and Islamic supremacists including Osama bin Laden and Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, as well as statements from Hamas TV and one of the victims of the Fort
Hood jihad massacre. This usage of jihad is much more influential and
widespread among Muslims worldwide than the benign and whitewashed
understanding of it being pushed by Hamas-linked CAIR, and the fact that some
Muslims don’t think of jihad as involving violence does not cancel out the fact
that many do. Our AFDI campaign shines the light of truth to break through the
fog of CAIR’s deceptions.
Muhammad said, “war
is deceit”, a lesson unindicted-conspirator Hamas-tied Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) employs with vicious frequency. Hamas-CAIR is
running another new propaganda ad campaign in the information battle-space. This
time it’s a deceptive #MyJihad bus ad designed to distract from and obscure the
true meaning of jihad (see above). Several former
CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror.
CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief
spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic
supremacist statements. Its California
chapter distributed posters telling Muslims not to talk to the FBI.”
[....]
The Islamic
supremacists of CAIR say their MyJihad campaign is designed to respond to our
Quran ad, and fight “bigotry” and “Islamophobia,” but in fact the real
bigotry, the real hatred, is coming from devout Muslim jihad terrorists around
the world every day: over 20,000 jihad attacks since 9/11, each one with the
imprimatur of a Muslim cleric. The FBI’s
latest statistics give the lie yet again to the victimhood-mongering of
Hamas-CAIR, which by claiming that there has been a wave of “Islamophobia”
hopes to intimidate Americans into thinking there’s something wrong with
resisting jihad terror.
Here are all the ads in our series:
AFDI PRO-ISRAEL BUS AND SUBWAY AD CAMPAIGN
"Anti-jihad posters provide this year's UN controversy" (Haaretz)
We won historic landmark free speech first cases against the government in New York and DC. "M.T.A. Violated Rights of Group," Judge Says By Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, and Reuters: "New York Bus System Can't Bar Pro-Israel, 'Defeat Jihad' Ads."
Wall Street Journal: 'Court Rejects MTA’s Ban Against Transit Ads'
Our
anti-jihad subway and bus campaign forced the media to talk about what
they themselves prohibit -- jihad and sharia. It was one of the biggest
stories this year. This was part of a multi-pronged media attack forcing
discussion and analysis of the gravest threat to our national security.
We posted anti-sharia billboards and ran radio ads to counter Muslim Brotherhood billboard ads and radio ads promoting sharia.
We expanded the "Support Israel" bus campaign to 100 NYC buses to
include "Support the Troops, Defeat Jihad"; "Support the Copts, Defeat
Jihad"; "Support the Bahais, Defeat Jihad"; "Support the Nigerian
Christians, Defeat Jihad"; "Support the Hindus, Defeat Jihad"; et al.
AFDI QURAN AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
And we have new ads going up in NY and DC to counter Hamas-CAIR's deceptive quran ads. Here is our new ad: NBC News on the new AFDI Quran ads
We have purchased over 220 clocks in the NYC subway system:
I love this buy...for so many reasons. First, because metaphorically
it's so powerful. The clock is ticking, from a civilizational point of
view. Bombs, at least in movies, tick and are set off by clocks. The
urgency of our message is mirrored in the placement. Also, these are
much harder to deface. Islamic supremacist thugs and goons destroyed our
other ads within an hour. As the clocks hang from the ceiling, they
won't be able to get to these. And if the destroyers destroy the clock,
it's a much bigger expense, and the criminal penalties are much stiffer.
AFDI NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
Our anti-jihad conferences and freedom rallies in Stockholm; our bringing the truth to conservatives at CPAC 2012: Islamic Law in America; the Honor Killing Human Rights Conference in Dearborn (FOX News coverage here); our Former Muslims for Freedom conference in Manhattan Beach; and our First International Freedom Congress at the UN on 911 sent shockwaves across the world.
Pamela
Geller, Tommy Robinson, Robert Spencer and Kevin Carroll, Pamela
Geller, Tommy Robinson (Anders Gravers and Debbie Robinson not
pictured)
We formed a worldwide alliance in Stockholm, SION (Stop Islamization of Nations)
functioning under a President's council that functions as a mobile,
proactive, reactive on-the-ground team developing and executing
confidential action plans that strike at the heart of the global
anti-freedom agenda. The President's Council are SIOE's Anders Gravers;
Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll of the EDL; Debbie Robinson of the Q
Society of Australia, Robert Spencer and me. I am honored to have been
elected President. In addition to Stockholm and our first world
conference on 911, we are assisting Tommy Robinson in his legal fight
and wrongful imprisonment in the cause of freedom.
We exposed pro-sharia media bias
when we submitted an exact replica of an anti-Catholic ad that ran in
the NY Times, exchanging the falsehoods about Catholicism with truth
about Islam. The New York Times refused our ad but ran the anti-Catholic
ad. It made television and mainstream media news round the world: VIDEO: Pamela Geller on FOX News Discussing NY Times Hypocrisy
HIGHLIGHTS:
CBS
Chicago News and "MyJihad" Ads Land on CTA Buses" NBC Chicago
"Controversy Escalates Over Anti-Islam Metro Ads" Time Magazine
Even
after two court cases and a public outcry, these inflammatory ads in
New York and Washington D.C. public transit systems aren't going
anywhere
A
“defeat jihad” advertisement that represents the latest clash between
the nation’s commitment to free speech and its responsibility to protect
against terrorism is headed to a D.C. district court this week — and
possibly to Metro stations.
The American Freedom Defense
Initiative, an advocacy group that warns against the Islamization of
America, submitted advertisements for the New York City subway and the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority system. The proposed
advertisement reads: “In any war between the civilized man and the
savage, support the civilized man,” with the tagline: “Support
Israel/Defeat Jihad.”
Monday, October 01, 2012 Wall Street Journal in support of anti-jihad ads: "Call a Terrorist a 'Savage'? How Uncivilized" William McGurn, Wall Street Journal, October 1, 2012 10:12 pm
An anti-jihad message is 'hate speech' by today's topsy-turvy standards.
"In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad."
So
reads an advertisement that went up a week ago in New York City subway
stations. Sponsored by Pamela Geller's American Freedom Defense
Initiative, the ads were meant to provoke, and they did. Denunciations
poured in, activists plastered "racist" and "hate speech" stickers over
the ads, and an Egyptian-American activist even got herself arrested
after spray-painting one poster pink.
Establishment opinion
quickly rallied to a consensus. As the Washington Post put it, while the
words could be read as "hateful," "an offensive ad" nonetheless has the
"right to offend." A rabbi summed up the media orthodoxy in the
headline over her column for CNN: "A right to hate speech, a duty to
condemn."
Haaretz: September 28, 2012 "Anti-jihad posters provide this year's UN controversy" link at Haaretz
But
the biggest drama so far this year surrounds a controversial
advertising campaign in New York Metro stations. The campaign features
posters, purchased by anti-Islam blogger Pamela Geller's American
Freedom Defense Initiative, which say "In any war between the civilized
man and the savage, support the civilized man," and lower down, "Support
Israel; Defeat jihad."
Meanwhile we fought to get our ads up in Washington, DC. We went to court and we one.
"Metro should end its delay of running ‘Defeat Jihad’ ad" Washington Post Editorial
AUDIO: Pamela Geller on Hamas-promoting BBC World service radio, libel and disinformation
145 million people listen to: BBC interview with Pamela Geller: NY sign sequence
We kicked off an islamorealism campaign that kicked off in NYC and ran in Fort Lauderdale, Denver ...
"Anti-Islamic ads go up in Metro-North stations" FOX 5 NY
LARCHMONT, N.Y. (AP) -An anti-Islamic advertisement has gone up at several Metro-North Railroad stations in Westchester County.
It reads: "It's not Islamophobia, it's Islamorealism."
"Islamophobic Billboard At Metro-North Station Encourages Hatred, Says Local Pol"
The Gothamist
"Anti-Islamic ads go up in NY train stations" Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2012
LARCHMONT, N.Y. — An anti-Islamic advertisement has gone up at several Metro-North Railroad stations in Westchester County.
It reads: "It's not Islamophobia, it's Islamorealism."
The
American Freedom Defense Initiative paid for it. It associates Islam
with 19,250 terrorist attacks carried out by extremists since the 9/11.
Anti-Islamic ad goes up in NY train stations CBS News
The
signs were paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, an
organization ran by blogger and political activist Pamela Geller. It
associates Islam with 19250 terrorist attacks carried out by extremists
since the 9/11. She told CBS radio station 1010 ....
Metro-North Billboard Flap Rages On New York Daily News
"I feel that it should be clear that the people of Metro North and the
town do not support this message." AFDI executive director Pamela Geller
said the ad is not hate speech, but merely a statement of fact. "There
is nothing hateful, mean-spirited, or offensive ...
Anti-Islamic ads on Metro North platforms ABC 7Online.com
Its
leader Pamela Geller emailed, "I wanted to provide an opposing view,
telling the truth to counter the fallacious and deceptive anti-Israel
ads." Marketing expert Timothy de Waal Malefyt, a visiting associate
professor at Fordham's School of Business sees ...
Anti-Islamic ads go up in NY train stations Wall Street Journal
The
Defense Initiative is led by blogger and political activist Pamela
Geller. She said its message is it's not "'Islamophobic' to oppose jihad
terror." The Anti-Defamation League said to condemn the entire faith is
unwarranted. ___. Information from: The Journal ...
"The
ad is just stating a fact -- that there have been over 19000 jihad
attacks since 9/11," said Pamela Geller of the American Freedom Defense
Initiative. "How is it 'Islamophobic' to point that out?" While many
riders say the poster is hate speech, U.S .courts ...
Islamophobic Billboard At Metro-North Station Encourages Hatred, Says Local Pol Gothamist
The
poster is from the American Freedom Defense Initiative (from Pamela
Geller), which complained about some Jewish organizations criticizing
the ads, "Look how tough these Jews are when it comes to going after
their own who are brave enough not to ...
They went up on buses in Fort Lauderdale (below)
NY TIMES here:
Subway Stations to Display Controversial "Jihad" Ad NBC
A
Manhattan federal court judge ruled in July that the MTA violated the
First Amendment rights of the group seeking to place the ad, The
American Freedom Defense Initiative.
The ad
states "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the
civilized man.'' It adds, "Support Israel. Defeat Jihad,'' in between
two Stars of David.
Pamela Geller of the
American Freedom Defensive Initiative doesn't think the poster will
provoke opposition after last week's deadly assault on the US Consulate
in Libya and following days of protests in the Middle East.
"How have world conditions changed?" she asked. "When is a good time?"
Here's a glimpse of the enemedia coverage of our anti-jihad ads.
New York Magazine snarks at the "timing," as if there were a good or better time to blaspheme.
When, then? After the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, when there
were no "provocations"? After the Cole bombing? After 7/7 in London?
After 3/11 in Madrid? After the Fort Hood jihadi? After the Times Square
bombing? After the Christmas balls bomber? After the teacher
inadvertently named a classroom teddy bear Muhammad (at the students'
request) and became a target for death and the object of rioting across
the Muslim world? After the Fogel murders? After Ambassador Stevens and
three US diplomats were murdered? After a youtube video that offends
Muhammad? After Danish moe-toons? After French moe-toons? After Swedish
moe-toons? When is it OK to blaspheme under the sharia? Anytime.
Now Seems Like a Great Time for an Anti-Muslim Subway Ad
New York Magazine - 2 hours ago
Defeat
Jihad" ad, which has been "deferred" in Washington, D.C. due to current
events, is the work of the Pamela Geller–led group American Freedom
Defense Initiative, whose past work includes signs that say, "It's not
Islamophobia, it's Islamorealism.
New York subway stations to display anti-Jihad ad
NBCNews.com) - 43 minutes ago
Pamela
Geller, executive director of the American Freedom Defense Initiative,
said in an email to the Times that that transit officials in Washington
were "kowtowing to the threat of jihad terrorism." Recent events in the
Middle East have not given her pause "for ...
NY transit authority weighs options on anti-Islam subway ad
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - 3 hours ago
The
ad is sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, or AFDI,
whose executive director, conservative blogger Pamela Geller, is a fiery
critic of Muslims, liberals and mainstream Jewish organizations. In
2011, the Southern Poverty Law Center ...
Pro-Israel Ads Call Jihad 'Savage,' Coming Soon To NYC Subways
International Business Times - 1 hour ago
The
ads were paid for by American Freedom Defense Initiative, an activist
group run by Pamela Geller, the author of the Atlas Shrugs blog who is
known as an outspoken critic of Islam. Initially, the MTA refused to run
the ads, but in July a Manhattan federal ...
Ad Calling Jihad 'Savage' Is Set to Appear in Subway
New York Times - 15 hours ago
Pamela
Geller, the executive director of the American Freedom Defense
Initiative, said in an e-mail Tuesday that transit officials in
Washington were “kowtowing to the threat of jihad terrorism.” She added
that recent events in the Middle East had not given her ...
Anti-jihad ads to appear in subways
UPI.com - 5 hours ago
Pamela
Geller, executive director of the group, told the Times in an email
Washington transit officials are "kowtowing to the threat of jihad
terrorism." "Freedom must be vigorously defended," she said. Recommended
Stories. Chicago teen charged in attempted ...
And
the Daily Mail here."Anti-jihad ad urging people to support 'civilized man, not the savage' gets go-ahead to be plastered on New York subway"
And the LEGAL WINS!
Good piece in The NY Times on our victory in court:
Islamorealism ads force media to talk about the over 19,000 deadly Islamic attacks since 911
Across this great country:
Emails
to Pamela Geller, the head of the American Freedom Defense Initiative,
were not returned Tuesday. Paul Rose, spokesman for the SFMTA, said the
signs were approved by Titan Outdoor, the private company that is
contracted by the agency to run its ...
It
was paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), a
Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group co-founded by Pamela
Geller, a fiercely pro-Zionist and anti-Muslim blogger. But even though
the San Francisco Municipal Transport ...
And what we are up against:
SF Jewish Community Center condemns 'anti-Muslim' MUNI bus ads DigitalJournal.com
AFDI
was co-founded by Pamela Geller, a 54-year-old blogger, author,
political activist and commentator best known for her fierce opposition
to the Park51 'Ground Zero Mosque,' which she calls the "9/11 monster
mosque." "The reason why I wanted to run ...
Money From Pro-Israel Ad Goes to Human Rights Group KQED
We
reported earlier this week that the ad was sponsored by anti-Muslim
blogger Pamela Geller. Mother Jones reports: This isn't the first time
Geller, who warned America about "stealth halal" turkeys last
Thanksgiving, has used a public transit ad campaign to ...
Huffington Post
Federal Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan says he agrees with blogger Pamela Geller.
He says the Metropolitan Transportation Authority should not have
rejected Geller's ad. Geller is the executive director of the American
Freedom Defense Initiative.
Gothamist
[UPDATE BELOW] It's a glorious day for noted Islamaphobe Pamela Geller
and the American Freedom Law Center, which filed a lawsuit against the
MTA after their pro-Israel advertisement was rejected. You'll recall
that Geller and her associates wanted to ...
Algemeiner
The ruling has been almost a year in the making and began when Pamela Geller
of AFDI initiated the posting of the ads in response to anti-Israel ads
that called for a cessation of US aid to Israel. At the time,
representatives of CBS Outdoor, ...
New York Times - 42 minutes ago
Pamela Geller,
executive director of the group that sought to place the ad, called the
decision “a victory for freedom-loving people.” Ms. Geller is an
outspoken blogger and critic of Islam whose group ran ads on city buses
in 2010 that opposed ...
In other news, exposing the Jewish left:
More media bias:
LA Times Repeats Islamic Supremacist Talking Points In Covering Cancellation of Geller Speech
Always shaking them up:
VIDEO: Olbermann on #Lowes: "Pam Geller [sic] to be really, really, truly terrifying. I think the stuff she does is dangerous"