On the 16th anniversary of the worst attack in history on American soil — an attack carried out in the cause of Islam, and unlike Pearl Harbor, an attack on civilians — the cowards at one of America’s leading financial institutions demanded that the billboards for our new movie on the bloody Islamic jihad against the freedom of speech be taken down.
Not to worry: thanks to the craven cowards over at Morgan Stanley, we got a bigger, better, prime digital billboard in the heart of Times Square.
Here’s what happened. On Monday afternoon, a representative of Clear Channel, the billboard company with which we are working, called my organization, the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), and told us that our billboard in Times Square advertising our new documentary film, Can’t We Talk About This? The Islamic Jihad Against Free Speech, had to come down: “We were informed by the landlord, I know we received approval, but they had a number of complaints from tenants in their building about the creative that we put up, and they are requiring us to take it down as of tonight. So there’s not much we can do about it, ‘cause the landlord has the final say.”
The Clear Channel employee said he couldn’t tell disclose which of the building’s tenants complained, and said that the landlord had initially discounted the complaints, but they kept coming: “They actually let it go. They said, we understand, we receive complaints from people on a lot of different creatives, but if it continues, we’re going to have to take it down. Well, they gave us a call late this afternoon, said they’d received a number of complaints in addition to that, so I really don’t have any choice, it’s always contingent upon the landlord’s decision.”
A source with intimate knowledge of the situation told me that the principal tenant behind the complaints was Morgan Stanley, which owns a majority of the floors in the building. I was able to discover that they own floors 59 through 74 and others as well.
This is where we are 16 years after 9/11? This wouldn’t be such appalling news if the complaining tenant hadn’t been Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley, of all companies, should know better. They had several floors at the World Trade Center, and 3,700 employees there. Ten of its employees were murdered in the 9/11 jihad attacks.
It must be remembered how that happened. The horror and death was on a scale that was unimaginable in…America. People who, just hours earlier, had their morning joe, kissed their wives or husbands, took their children to school, maybe grabbed a McMuffin and hurried into the city to get to their desks, were faced with the most shocking, horrific imminent death. Men and women waving shirts or jackets stood on the gashed edge of a gaping wound at the top floors of the Towers. No one could get to them. No one could help them. The heat from the flames of the airplane turned fireball left people with no choice. Burn to death or jump. Hundreds jumped to their deaths.
Eyewitnesses talked of a couple who held hands as they fell. One woman, in a final act of modesty, appeared to be holding down her skirt. Others tried to make parachutes out of curtains or tablecloths, only to have them wrenched from their grip by the force of their descent. The sound of the bodies hitting the pavement was deafening.
This is what Morgan Stanley has come to: carrying water for the violent and oppressive ideology that killed ten of its employees on 9/11, along with thousands of others. It’s ironic: my billboard announces the release our shocking new film detailing the concerted effort by international organizations to compel the U.S. and other Western countries to curtail the freedom of speech and criminalize criticism of Islam.
Featuring exclusive new interviews with me, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Geert Wilders, Mark Steyn, Douglas Murray, Ezra Levant, Lars Vilks, Garland Muhammad cartoon contest winner Bosch Fawstin, and many other heroes of freedom, this web series will be the first ever to expose the war on free speech. It is certain to shock the American public and awaken many. These interviews reveal events at Garland and its aftermath that have never before been made public, and demonstrate how far advanced the war on free speech really is.
Can’t we talk about this? Morgan Stanley, a victim of the 9/11 attacks, says no. Our billboard was taken down and replaced with a giant photo of a woman’s butt with the headline, “wanna better butt?” That’s not offensive?
We are not giving up, of course. We are got an even better billboard in Times Square. These cowards and destroyers always shoot themselves in the foot. We always turn their evil actions into positives for us.
Shame on you, Morgan Stanley.
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Pamela Geller is the President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of Geller Report and author of FATWA: Hunted in America. Like her on Facebook here. Follow her on Twitter here.
rbla says
And let us not forget that Morgan Stanley was one of the firms who facilitated the foolish lax subprime lending that caused the financial meltdown of 2008.
bob kelly says
Pamela Geller is a REAL Hero ! 1
Linde Barrera says
Brava to Pamela Geller. She is one of my heroines. But I wish this article included the names and office phone numbers of a few Morgan Stanley employees I could call and tell them why they should not want AFDI’s board down.
Just A Concerned Citizen says
It’s worth mentioning also that more than 2,000 people, mostly Morgan Stanley employees, were saved on 9/11/2001 thanks entirely to the foresight and ultimately the sacrifice of Cyril Richard “Rick” Resorla (the head of security for Dean Witmer and Morgan Stanley)–the man predicted both the 1993 attack and even went so far as to say that the next one would be an attack from the air.
That the company would do this now is a great dishonor to his memory.
Michael Copeland says
Rick Rescorla overrode the loudspeaker announcement on 9/11 to “stay at your desks” and commanded all the Morgan Stanley employees to evacuate the building. He himself was killed after going back up to rescue more.
gravenimage says
Guys, thanks for citing Rick Rescorla. A real hero–unlike the cowards who had these billboards taken down.
Lorn Ferguson says
WTF? Thats so sad….we need more loyalists and heroes, not more Wall street scum that undermines our society,,,,,Are we gonna let our Americans die at the hands of these scummy muslims or are we gt stand up???
fbijihadidefender says
You cannot talk about this or both Jihadist or leftiest will do what you put on the billboards. This is freedom of speech that defined by Jihadist and leftiest.
JW_Reader says
BTW, that big poster looks awesome. Wish, the white writings at the bottom were a little bigger. There should be more films depicting islamic atrocities – lot more.
Japetto Donatelli says
It’s hard to imagine such an innocuous ad being offensive. Good grief, stop and consider the nightly news, the murder and mayhem we’re all subjected to, and consider all the risque ads and porno Times Square has seen over the decades. But this humanitarian documentary that decries murder and crime is too offensive?
This is the premier tactic of muslims and their leftist buddies, just act “offended” and play the victim. Let me tell you what’s offensive, the misogynist and murderous doctrines islam’s political religion teaches as godly truth. This is why Theo Van Gogh was murdered, because some muslim was offended by the truth he told. And now someone else is offended because they don’t want to hear the truth about the guy who got murdered for telling the truth! Why is it the bigot(s) who took down the ad think their free speech right to complain is worth more than Pam’s right to advertise? It looks like one bigot complained to another bigot and they decided someone else shouldn’t be afforded free speech! We’re all offended in life, every d*mn day. Why do leftists and muslims think their hurt feelings about islam are worth more than our hurt feelings over the bigotry and terror it causes? Free speech is supposed to work for everyone equally otherwise it’s a dictatorship where one side beats down the other, just like sharia.
I’m sick and f*cking tired of always hearing how earth’s most offensive people are offended. They’re taking our neighborhoods, our security, our kids’ virginity, our freedoms, our welfare and healthcare, but oddly they’re the ones always offended. No I’m offended when I see bigoted intolerance defeat free speech for a humanitarian cause. And that’s what Pam’s documentary truly is, a humanitarian response to an international crisis. Bless that woman and all who help her. When muslims are offended it’s like a bloody hammer over our heads. When we’re offended it’s good morality and humanitarian concern crying out. That’s why our “offense” is worth so much more: It’s rooted in the deepest good of humanity.
James says
What is very offensive, is to objectify women. Why is turning women into sex-objects preferable to speaking the truth about a very dangerous religio-political ideology ?
gravenimage says
Pamela Geller: On September 11, Morgan Stanley had AFDI’s billboards critical of Islam removed from Times Square
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*Disgusting*. That this was done on 9/11 makes it all the more craven.
Carlos Danger says
Nothing personal…….just business.
Banksters
James says
Nothing must be allowed to get in the way of the really important things in life, like making lots and lots of $$$.
Maybe the new poster is code for “We kiss butt”.
DogOnPorch says
Cowards.
butros says
morgan stanley… a supporter, facilitator and donator to Islamic terrorism.
Valkyrie Ziege says
; Does this “jeans” billboard
make my “butt” look “Fatwa”?
Andy King says
That’s very apt, very clever!
Proud Anti-Islam says
Pamela Geller is a very caring and very pleasant person. She is trying her best to defeat Islam and she will never give up.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear!
UNCLE VLADDI says
Banksters thrive on destruction. It should be illegal for them to own insurance companies, due to the obvious conflict of interest (insurance companies set rates based on risk, while banks encourage destruction).
How and why? one might ask.
Because banksters always back both sides in any and all given conflicts – the allegedly Jewish Rothschilds backed Hitler during WWII, for instance.
Why?
Because then the losers still owe the winners AND the banks, while the winners also still owe the banks, and both will be willing to borrow even more to pay for the reconstruction their conflicts caused, that’s why.
So they can back Conservatives, who always only want to be left alone to literally mind their own businesses, but it’s much more lucrative for banksters to finance destructive criminals, (wasteful libertine liberals and destructive muslims) simply because THERE’S NO MONEY IN SOLUTIONS.
Whee.