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When the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), the government
agency that operates the public transit system in Washington, D.C.,
refused to display a pro-Israel / anti-jihad advertisement in 2012, the
American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed a federal civil rights lawsuit
on behalf of the proponents of the advertisement—AFDI, Pamela Geller, and
Robert Spencer—and won. The federal judge ordered WMATA to
display the advertisement immediately.
As a result of our successful public policy “lawfare,” our clients have
been able to counter the misinformation and propaganda that Muslim
Brotherhood front groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR) are constantly feeding the public through complicit government
officials and the mainstream media. In fact, as a direct result of
our successful litigation in Washington, D.C., WMATA had no choice but to
permit the display of the following advertisement, which began running
yesterday in our Nation’s Capitol:
David Yerushalmi, AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel, acknowledged that
“[t]his is the effect of AFLC’s public policy lawfare. But for the
successful DC lawsuit, this advertisement would never have seen the light
of day.”
Robert Muise, AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel added: “AFLC is
committed to defending our core freedoms protected by the First Amendment
and thus preventing government officials from allowing political
correctness to trump free speech, particularly speech designed to expose
the dangers of sharia-adherent Islam.”
In addition to the “Islamic Jew-Hatred” advertisement, AFLC’s clients
will be displaying the following advertisement, which WMATA was also
forced to approve, in the coming weeks:
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