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Boston- Washington transport authorities prevented American Anti-Islam activist, Pamella Geller, from a running an ad depicting a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammed in Washington D.C. subway.
Pamela Geller, a political blogger and founder of American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), submitted a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad as part of an ad campaign on Washington, D.C. metro buses and trains.
The AFDI has once again demonstrated its Islamophobia toward the American Muslim community. Geller submitted her cartoon to the Washington, D.C. Transit Authority, which was the winning image from the “Draw Muhammad” cartoon contest held earlier in May in Garland, Texas.
“Drawing Muhammad is not illegal under American law, but only under Islamic law,” Geller, the 56-year-old head of the American Freedom Defense Initiative said in a statement posted to Breitbart.com. “Violence that arises over the cartoons is solely the responsibility of the Islamic jihadists who perpetrate it. “
As a result, Washington transport authorities on Thursday banned political, religious, and advocacy advertisements on the subway. The votes for the decision were unanimous, as they wanted to avoid all kinds of “issue-oriented” ads.
AFDI founder Pamela Geller strongly criticized the decision to ban the ad, describing it as an attack on freedom of speech.
“These cowards may claim that they are making people safer, but I submit to you the opposite. They are making it far more dangerous for Americans everywhere.” Geller insists that the cartoon is a “political opinion” which does not incite violence.
Many critics describe AFDI as a hate group, as they have run controversial ad on subways and buses in Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, as well as on Washington’s metro in 2012.
