Washington subway bans 'issue' ads after request to run Mohammad cartoon
Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters
(Reuters) - The Washington transit system on Thursday suspended all "issue-oriented" advertising after being asked to run a subway ad featuring a cartoon depiction of the Prophet Mohammad.
The ban, approved unanimously by the board of directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, prohibits political, religious and advocacy ads through the end of the year, a spokesman said.
The transit system had been asked by the American Freedom Defense Initiative to display the cartoon that won first prize at an event in Texas this month at which two gunmen opened fire near the venue and wounded a security guard before they were shot and killed by police.
The ad, which calls for Americans to support free speech, features a bearded, turban-wearing Mohammad waving a sword and shouting: "You can't draw me!"
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/washington-subway-bans-issue-ads-request-run-mohammad-224114480.html
rug
(82,333 posts)starroute
(12,977 posts)The things they've been doing lately don't come cheap.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)life insurance policy.
And they get private donations of course.
rpannier
(24,350 posts)She and her ilk can feel free to tattoo it on their foreheads
She's fine one for getting others killed
KinMd
(966 posts)why not put them on their own personal vehicles? Let your family go run errands in it.
Canoe52
(2,949 posts)My hats off to you!
Recursion
(56,582 posts)because so many staffers ride the metro every day.
It's also the only place I've seen a series of ad posters for the Joint Strike Fighter.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)Cowards.
BumRushDaShow
(129,885 posts)They had to adjust their policy to remove the vehicles from the designation of being a "public forum".
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), also known as the American Freedom Defense Initiative, is an extreme right-wing American organization that has been widely described as Islamophobic.
It describe itself as a "human rights organization dedicated to free speech, religious liberty and individual rights."
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) lists SIOA as a hate group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Islamization_of_America
Novara
(5,866 posts)Yeah, let's see her ride around with the cartoon plastered to her vehicle.
This is why we can't have nice things.