Comments on: Students combat anti-Muslim message in D.C. Metro ads

By: Fighting Hate Speech with Love « Morgan McDaniel

Fighting Hate Speech with Love « Morgan McDaniel — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:03:33 +0000

[...] to home, a group of Georgetown students have been going to Metro stations and distributing flyers supporting peace. Our very own Rachel [...]

By: Hadar

Hadar — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:42:38 +0000

I would like to point out that this is not against Muslims. This is against Islamic Jihad, a specific group that acts in the Gaza strip and Egypt by shooting rockets at Israeli civilians and even making attempts to cross the border into Israel and shooting at anything that moves when intercepted. Over the summer they killed a Palestinian man working on the border, simply because he was on the Israeli side of the border. That is barbaric and that is savage. This is not a call for all Muslims to stop practicing or against all Muslims in general. It is a call to support peace by ending those barbaric acts. Handing out peace flyers supports the cause of this board, so good job!

By: Eric Blair

Eric Blair — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 06:12:05 +0000

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

By: Daniel Kendrick

Daniel Kendrick — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 04:15:07 +0000

What’s “disgusting” is not these ads but the fact that their message is even controversial. The ads name the proper reason to support Israel, not because it is the Jewish state, not because it is “democratic”, not because of Christian fundamentalists’ insane ideas of rebuilding the Temple of Solomon and bringing about the Apocalypse, but because Israel represents the force of Western englightenment civilization and comparative support for freedom and capitalism, while the Arabs stand for mystical barbarism. They are savages, as are any people who take religion seriously and view it as their holy mission to bring about the enslavement of the world to a totalitarian ideology. This goal is not held by a fringe within the Arab world: the vast majority either stand for it, or are unwilling to stand against it. We can “tolerate” them and stop calling them savages when they stop behaving like savages; it is suicidal to do so before then, but I suppose the security of our lives and secular, capitalist civilization is irrelevant for those of the “turn the other cheek” mentality. That any Jews, especially, would support such a policy illustrates the madness resulting from putting religion over human life.

And anyone who opposes these ads out of concern for reprisal from Muslims is the worst kind of coward there is. He may as well start paying the dhimmi tax and be done with it.

By: Lauren McGaughy

Lauren McGaughy — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:05:23 +0000

Hey! Georgetown alumn Lauren here. Check out the piece I wrote about New Yorkers’ reactions to these same ads when they went up in the city last month during the UN General Assembly. Some of those interviewed are also GU alumni! http://www.rttnews.com/1973469/new-yorkers-react-to-anti-jihad-subway-ads.aspx

By: Janice Rogers-Levy

Janice Rogers-Levy — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:07:14 +0000

These repugnant signs are coming to the Portland, Or. Metro buses in about a month. Does anyone know of an effort to stop or demonstrate against them? I find what P.Geller is doing is horrendous, and ironically very much like what the Nazis did by whipping up peoples fear and hatred. I am hoping eventually the courts will see this IS HATE SPEECH which is against the law and not protected by the 1st Amendment.

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:54:52 +0000

Not to nitpick, but there is no such this as the D.C. Subway Commission. I think they mean Metro Board of Directors. Otherwise, carry on!