An important victory for the increasingly embattled freedom of speech. Read Pamela Geller’s reaction and background on this case here. “AFLC Victory Over Government Apologists for Islamic Jihad: Ninth Circuit Unanimously Rules that King County’s Rejection of ‘Faces of Global Terrorism’ Ad Violates the First Amendment,” American Freedom Law Center, September 27, 2018: Seattle, Washington […]
Video: Key free speech case argued, American Freedom Defense Initiative vs. Seattle King County
This video shows Robert Muise of the American Freedom Law Center arguing that when Seattle refused to run our AFDI counter-terrorism ad, it violated our First Amendment rights. Our ad was a close copy of an ad that the FBI had originally run, before it was taken down after complaints from Leftists and Muslims. Both […]
AFDI Responds to Absurd Seattle King County Claim That We Are AGAINST Free Speech In Trying to Run Counterterror Ad
This all started back in 2013, when the FBI was running a terrorism awareness campaign featuring bus ads depicting photos of sixteen of the world’s Most Wanted Terrorists. This was a publicity campaign sponsored by the Joint Terrorism Task Force for the State Department’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program. The ad featured the world’s leading […]
AFDI lawsuit: “Speech may not be banned on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend”
One of the reasons why we have such a cult of victimhood in today’s society is because being offended is currency. It buys things for you. But only for some people. If conservatives are offended, it matters not a whit. But if Muslims are offended, everyone jumps to mollify them, in part to stave off […]
Seattle considers development of Sharia-compliant financing
It is a dogma of the American public discourse that Sharia is entirely benign and completely compatible with American laws and mores. That is why the mainstream media tried to destroy Ben Carson over his remarks about Sharia and a Muslim President. But Carson’s surge in popularity testifies not, as the media would have it, […]