Controversial Anti-Muslim Ads Coming to New York City Transit

NEWSWEEK
By Stav Ziv

NEW YORK---A controversial new ad campaign featuring an image from James Foley's execution video and describing the presence of a "jihadi threat" in America will join some New Yorkers on their public transportation commutes this month. The American Freedom Defense Initiative, run by blogger and activist Pamela Geller, has paid $100,000 to place a series of ads at two subway stations and on the backs of 100 buses for four weeks. The goal of the campaign, Geller tells Newsweek, is to "put an end to the denial and willful ignorance about that threat [of jihad in America] so that we can adopt effective counterterror measures." The term jihad refers to a holy war or personal struggle done in devotion to Islam. Geller's organization placed a round of ads in the NYC transit system in 2012. [link]