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AFDI sues London taxis for Sharia censorship

Oct 27, 2016 4:46 pm By Robert Spencer

We are moving forward with our fraud suit in London. A message from Pamela Geller:

london-taxt-afdi

Anti-Sharia Ads Censored On London Transport

My human rights organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, has filed suit in the United Kingdom – again. We are fighting for freedom there harder than most Brits.

Back in June I reported that we were starting a new ad campaign to run on London taxis. It consisted simply of quotes from Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, such as “I have been made victorious through terror.”

Here is a photoshopped mockup of how the ads were supposed to look:

 

 

I was told by John Kehoe, a representative of Media Agency in London that the London buses would not accept my ads, despite the fact that the buses were running ads proclaiming the greatness of Allah. It was Media Agency that suggested I run the ads on taxis instead. I agreed.

 

I had signed contacts and paid in full on May 13. On that day, we released an announcement: AFDI- Taxi Supersides Contract Between Media Agency Group and Pamela Geller is Signed and Filed!

On June 27, I wrote to John: “John, Please confirm that the ads are up and running today.” On June 28, I receive this email from Gabrielle Conneely of Transport Media:

Hi Pamela,

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you, john did pass me your email last night to give you an update,

All taxis are now posted and on the road J

Thanks

Gabi

But here’s the thing: the ads never ran.

Transport Media lied. They said that hundreds of our ads were running on London taxis. When I asked for proof of placement – environmental shots of taxis bearing the ads on London streets – they stopped answering my emails.

If the ads had been running, there would have been an uproar in the dhimmi British media. The Guardian would have been furious that we dared to insult Muhammad by quoting his exact words.

Also, don’t you think that if the ads had been running, every Muslim cabbie in London (i.e., every cabbie in London) would have been on strike and up in arms (some literally) and refusing to drive, or peeling off the ads, etc.?

But there was nothing. Not one word.

The ads never ran. These perfidious Albionites to lie to you and take your money. They never ran the ads.

Can you imagine what would happen if they tried to pull this on jihad or Sharia groups?

On June 28, I wrote the following to Kehoe and Conneely, as well as to my attorneys in Britain:

Please immediately supply environmental (street) photos of these taxis featuring our ads running around London. Despite your assurances that they are running, we have received no reports from our numerous contacts in the city of any sightings of these taxis. There has been no discussion of them, either pro or con, in social media or in the British press. Given the highly controversial nature of the ads in light of the British political scene today, it is virtually inconceivable that these ads would run without either a murmur of dissent or one single affirmation of support.

We can only conclude that your assertions that they are running are not accurate, and unless we receive atmospheric photos forthwith, we will be undertaking discussions with our British attorneys (cc’d here) about possible legal action.

And so this week, we filed suit, through my British law firm, Taylor Rose. In response, the Media Agency actually claimed that the picture I photoshopped above was evidence that the ads ran! When we challenged that, they sent us photos of the ads on parked taxis — after repeatedly refusing to show us any evidence that the ads had run before. Their new photos were obviously an attempt to stop our suit: they put the ads on taxis, took the photos, and took them off. But their dishonesty was transparent.

We are not going to sit by and be defrauded. These ads should have run, and the British police should have been poised to defend the freedom of speech. After the Muslim mayor banned advertisements on buses and subways of bikini-clad women, what would have been more appropriate (or needed) than our new ad campaign?

This is yet another example of the crushing imposition of Islamic law in Britain — from my being banned from entering the country for the crime of opposing jihad, while the most vicious Islamic preachers who incite to violence and murder are routinely allowed in, to the new Muslim mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, banning advertisements featuring women in bikinis and promising more Sharia enforcement against so-called “anti-Muslim hate speech” – while his transit authority is stealing tens of thousands of dollars from those of us who are fighting for our most basic freedoms.

But this lawsuit is expensive. It has already cost us over $35,000, and more charges will be coming. No British attorneys will work for us pro bono. This is an important fight for the freedom of speech — will you help us make a stand?

Contribute to AFDI here. It makes the work possible.

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  1. Leon Kushner says

    Oct 27, 2016 at 5:14 pm

    I’m very proud of Pamella and Robert and their organization that fights the Islamification of us in the west.
    Sadly England and London in particular are ready to collapse under the weight of left wingers and sharia supporters.

    • Itinerant says

      Oct 28, 2016 at 9:21 pm

      ‘under the weight of left wingers and sharia supporters. ‘

      It was the supposedly ‘Conservative’ Home Secretary and now Prime Minister, Theresa May, who banned Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller from entering the UK.

      Meanwhile Islamo-fascists come and go.

      Robert Spencer, no doubt with some bitterness, says Britain is finished.
      Looking at demographics and the abject appeasement of violent jihad and de-facto Sharia blasphemy law, it’s hard to disagree.
      Similar liberal establishments exist across Europe but many of these face increasing dissent from parties like the PVV or FN.

      In the UK, one can’t see where any meaningful resistance is going to come.

  2. Guest says

    Oct 27, 2016 at 5:49 pm

    I suggest you sue

  3. Yaffle says

    Oct 27, 2016 at 5:51 pm

    Good luck with this Robert.

    FYI London’s black cab drivers aren’t that Muslim – if anything they are disproportionately Jewish. The independent taxis are a different matter.

    • Green Infidel says

      Oct 27, 2016 at 6:39 pm

      If anything, London’s black cab drivers would be likely very supportive of these ads!

    • James Wills says

      Oct 28, 2016 at 3:58 am

      Yes, you are right this job was traditionally done by working class Jews and most of them would love to carry this advert.

  4. mccode says

    Oct 27, 2016 at 6:05 pm

    Bravo, Pamela, Robert, and to all who contribute.

  5. Mr. Farton says

    Oct 27, 2016 at 7:31 pm

    Left wingers will be the first to go when jihad warriors take over London completely. They are too blinded by their compulsvie need to do “good” to see that now.

  6. Blurb1000 says

    Oct 27, 2016 at 7:53 pm

    Hmm.. In Oslo 94,5% of the cab drivers need a 5 break a day to drive Mercedes. A very bad car I suppose?

  7. Joe Black says

    Oct 27, 2016 at 8:07 pm

    Transport for London have the final say on what adds run on taxis,and this would never of got off the ground, that media company was taking you for a ride. I believe there is only two companies that deal with black cabs and it is not the one you used

  8. underbed cat says

    Oct 27, 2016 at 8:40 pm

    In a country where they cannot speak any truth about Islam without the threat of arrest for “hate speech”, this would be not surprise that they did not post these ads on the taxi ‘s.Especially London with a new sharia happy mayor. So it really makes you sick that they do not dare to stop hate speech or sharia threats at the citizens.

    • David says

      Oct 27, 2016 at 9:36 pm

      Just another sign that the British people have been so castrated that they fear calling a NAZI a NAZI !
      Winston Churchill is turning over in his grave, and will continue to do so, untill his people “Grow A Set!”.
      And throw off the yoke of their very NAZI like oppressors.

  9. gravenimage says

    Oct 27, 2016 at 9:05 pm

    AFDI sues London taxis for Sharia censorship
    ……………………

    Good for you for not letting this lie.

  10. David says

    Oct 27, 2016 at 9:31 pm

    The people of Satan do not look kindly on anyone trying to show the TRUTH about who and what they really are!
    Brazenly showing the whole population the Demon inspired words of their Cult Founder, the Psycopath Mohammshead, was bound to cause a psychotic reaction from thousands of “the people of SATAN”. AKA: muslums!
    Cab company should have just told you this up front instead of taking your CASH, and then lying about it.
    HOW VERY ISLAMIC !

  11. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Oct 27, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    The first two words of these ads are ambiguous: Who is Muhammad Said? Answer:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%27id_of_Egypt
    And when I go to TruthAboutMuhammad.org , here is what I get:
    http://freedomdefense.typepad.com/fdi/the-truth-about-muhammad.html
    What’s wrong here?

  12. Afrostreewise says

    Oct 27, 2016 at 11:47 pm

    Off topic here but related to muslim madness:
    A knife wielding muslim young man shot yesterday (Kenyan time) outside the US embassy reportedly after menacingly pointing to a paramilitary officer guarding the area.https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=611084962409897&set=a.583859901799070.1073741832.100005251950254&type=3

  13. james a deloch says

    Oct 28, 2016 at 12:10 am

    they have islamophobia. lol

  14. citycat says

    Oct 28, 2016 at 1:57 am

    Things like this give pause to step back mentally.
    No physical violence to confuse the issue.
    Revenge is a cold dish.
    The giving citizen has been taken for one mother of a ride by the incompetent or treacherous people involved in governing, most of whom may not have the choice to step out from the peer pressured treachery or incompetence, and is it also fear painted as truth?
    There is little truthful communication happening in the public areas.
    The mass mind is gripped with tricky lies and the like.
    Free thought is the weapon feared by the controllers, and to parry free thought the controllers confuse the issues with trumped up logic that is no logic.
    The list is long.
    Things are not waiting.
    The rebel mind is shouted down, ridiculed and falsely accused.
    Rebel, think your own thoughts, not the wishy washy nebulous trickery to be found in the most revered of media outlets.
    Sick humanity, sick.

  15. Rufolino says

    Oct 28, 2016 at 2:26 am

    The powers that be in London could easily describe these taxi-ads as “provocative” even if they are perfectly accurate.

    Currently in Britain anything that might be considered provocative in relation to religion or race is “politically incorrect” and socially impermissible. End of story.

    These ads didn’t stand a cat in hell’s chance of being accepted in London today -surely you knew this ?

    • Westman says

      Oct 28, 2016 at 3:05 am

      Theft is theft. Surely all parties knew this…

    • Lee says

      Oct 28, 2016 at 8:36 pm

      “…anything that might be considered provocative in relation to religion or race is “politically incorrect” and socially impermissible. End of story.”

      You must mean only with regard to being provocative to Islamofascism, right? Every other religion – and particularly those with predominately White followers in the UK – are ripe for ridicule and criticism.

      For example, the musical ridiculing and potentially provoking hatred of Mormonism “The Book of Mormon” has been running in the West End for nearly *4 years*, and is currently showing. Similarly, the media happily provokes ridicule and/or hatred of Scientology and its followers, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Catholicism, and Christianity in general.

  16. eur says

    Oct 28, 2016 at 3:46 am

    What about a zeppelin or plane with those same phrases? Taxi drivers are afraid of muslims. The idea of provoking debate is very good. People will begin to know that Muhammad is not equivalent to Jesus, that Islam does not preach peace and is more repressive than even the medieval inquisition.

  17. TH says

    Oct 28, 2016 at 4:11 am

    I don’t see how a judge could reasonably argue that it is hate speech, when it is a quiote from the Quran itself. It is an excellent idea and shoud be replicated all over the world.

    • Anne Smith says

      Oct 28, 2016 at 10:25 am

      Someone reading Winston Churchill’s writings on Muslims (at a political hustings) was arrested for hate speech by police and carted away and locked up.

      We have totally lost freedom of speech in UK.

  18. Angemon says

    Oct 28, 2016 at 4:36 am

    Transport Media lied. They said that hundreds of our ads were running on London taxis. When I asked for proof of placement – environmental shots of taxis bearing the ads on London streets – they stopped answering my emails.

    Sneaky little thieves.

    • Anne Smith says

      Oct 28, 2016 at 10:26 am

      Is it a Muslim run firm? Were they practising Taqqiya?

      • Angemon says

        Oct 28, 2016 at 11:16 am

        While I know not whether or not the firm is run by muslims, they received money for a service they agreed to provide but didn’t.

  19. Mubarak says

    Oct 28, 2016 at 7:37 am

    I wonder if such a campaign with ads on taxis could be counterproductive?
    Evil is progressively becoming an incentive rather than a deterrent in these last days perilous times.
    Furthermore: fighting evil by advertising presupposes that moral man is a product of commercial methods – that in itself is an evil proposition.

  20. Denis MacEoin says

    Oct 28, 2016 at 9:14 am

    You write: ‘every Muslim cabbie in London (i.e., every cabbie in London)’ Hasve you ever sat in a black cab in London. I have never had a Muslim driver in one, over a great many years. Your assumption displays an uncomfortable level of prejudice. I support your ads and the necessity of displaying them. But inaccurate claims do not help your cause.

  21. bleeps says

    Oct 30, 2016 at 6:11 pm

    I really think the cab companies are scared because everyone will run for their lives when they see one cab with those quotes. They would sign their bankruptcy note. No clients would enter their car except those who would kill the cab drivers. What is bad for business is bad for your health too! Keep up to it, guys and give them chills so they wake up before the slaughter starts!

    • James Wills says

      Oct 30, 2016 at 6:32 pm

      You obviously don’t live in London. London cabbies are sole traders and own or lease their cabs there are no actual cab companies as such. The company being sued is a middle man who arranges advertising in the cabs. Many of the cabbies are secular Jews and would be over the moon to take these adds.

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