Free Speech on Trial in DC, Today

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Free Speech on Trial in DC, Today

We will be back in court today fighting for our unalienable first amendment rights under the law and pushing back against the encroaching blasphemy laws ('do not criticize Islam') under the sharia. This is the key battle in the stealth jihad being waged across this country and all free nations.

D.C. Federal Court to Hear ADFI’s Challenge to Transit Authority’s Restriction on Anti-Jihad Advertisement 

Today, Robert Muise, Co-Founder and Senior Counsel of the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), will present oral argument in federal court in Washington, D.C. in AFLC’s request for an injunction to halt the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)’s censorship of a pro-Israel/anti-jihad bus advertisement.  The hearing is before District Court Judge Rosemary M. Collyer, and it is scheduled to take place at 2:00 p.m. EDT in Courtroom 8 at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia located at 333 Constitution Avenue, N.W., in Washington, D.C.  The hearing is open to the media and the general public.
  At issue in the lawsuit is the WMATA’s decision to delay running a pro-Israel/anti-jihad advertisement on its Metro system until some “future date” due to alleged concerns about “the situations happening around the world,” “world events,” and the “security and safety” of its passengers.  The WMATA’s decision was based in response to the ongoing violence in Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere in an alleged protest of free speech in the United States that is critical of Islam.  As a result of the WMATA’s censorship, AFLC filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of the advertisement's sponsors, the Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI) and its executive directors, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer.  The lawsuit challenges the WMATA’s unconstitutional restriction on FDI’s right to engage in protected speech in a public forum.