Philly says no to AFDI's racist, Islamophobic ads.

Pamela Geller and her tiny fake organization's hate-speech ads are not welcome in our city or on our SEPTA buses. Her ads tell lies about Muslims, attempting to incite religious, racial, and ethnic resentment, prejudice, discrimination, and violence. In other cities, people have responded to the ads by changing or subverting them, or covering them with responses. In Philly, we're hosting a contest for the best "re-design" of one of Geller/AFDI's horrible ads. Click here to submit!

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Philly.com: SEPTA ad campaign was a spectacular failure

...the ad failed to achieve its goal, and spectacularly so. Count the ways:

When even far Right-wingers think you’ve gone off the rails...

“If the first rule of advertising is to make sure to convey your message effectively, this inaccurate, strange, and aggressive bus advertisement must rank as an all-time disaster, damaging the cause it meant to serve while helping those it intended to harm.”

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Tell Mayoral Candidates,

Tell the Philadelphia Mayoral Candidates to oppose Islamophobia and pledge to reject association with or campaign contributions from organizations or individuals with known records of anti-Muslim activity. Please share widely with friends, family, and community leaders.

Tell the Philadelphia Mayoral Candidates to oppose Islamophobia and pledge to reject association with or campaign contributions from organizations or individuals with known records of anti-Muslim activity. Please share widely with friends, family, and community leaders.

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Rabbi Linda Holtzman, who has made a career of liberal activism, ventured into new territory when she scampered across Broad Street in North Philadelphia to slap a black-and-yellow sticker on the...

Rabbi Linda Holtzman, who has made a career of liberal activism, ventured into new territory when she scampered across Broad Street in North Philadelphia to slap a black-and-yellow sticker on the...

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Don't be fooled by Pamela Geller - CNN.com

Anti-Muslim blogger claims to stand for American values, but her irresponsible provocations, like cartoon contest that ended in bloodshed, undermines them.

Anti-Muslim blogger claims to stand for American values, but her irresponsible provocations, like cartoon contest that ended in bloodshed, undermines them.

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pam geller is mad because “goose-stepping leftist lapdogs” are messing with her ads :(

Edit to add: the link is broken because Geller took down the page where she complained about the ads!

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Mondoweiss: Calling out Pamela Geller's hate speech in Philadelphia

Ads reading “Islamic Jew Hatred: It’s in the Quran” appeared on SEPTA buses in Philadelphia on April Fool’s Day. No joke. Activists have slapped Hate Speech stickers on them.

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In this ad revision Grumpy Cat wants to know: “why is Pamela Geller so grumpy?”

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Wow! Someone put this sticker up one of the hateful AFDI ads on a SEPTA bus! “Dude it’s Rude... HATE SPEECH - Really?” 

Such a great Philly response - it’s like those SEPTA signs saying not to take up two seats - what could be more rude than hate speech ads?

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Dude It’s Rude…  Instead of changing one of the AFDI ads, this designer submitted reinterpretations of a recent SEPTA ad series.

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Someone revisited this classic Philly ad campaign to remind us all that Pamela Geller and her hateful AFDI organization are not welcome here.

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Well, the ads are apparently going up on 84 SEPTA buses today, for 30 days. This is horrible. Still, there’s something a little pleasing that the ads go up on April Fool’s day.

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Jewish Exponent: Contempt for SEPTA Bus Ads Brings Groups Together

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Jewish Exponent: Interfaith Groups Combat Message of Anti-Muslim Ads on SEPTA

To counter anti-Muslim advertisements on SEPTA buses, Mayor Michael Nutter is speaking out and a coalition of organizations are putting up a billboard promoting interfaith understanding.

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Jewish Voice for Peace – Philadelphia Condemns Anti-Muslim SEPTA Ads

More groups in Philly joining the rejection of AFDI ads on SEPTA!

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Support #DareToUnderstand!

Interfaith Philly organizing to reject these offensive and dangerous ads! Not  here. Not now. Not in our city. Despite SEPTA’s strong efforts to fight this, a federal court ruled, on free speech grounds, that SEPTA must run the ads.  We will not give credence to messages that incite hatred in our great city of brotherly love and the birthplace of religious freedom.  Instead, we are choosing to #DareToUnderstand. 

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Forward.com: No, Pamela Geller, the Qur'an Is Not Anti-Semitic – Forward Thinking

Anti-Semitism is no more inherent in the Qur’an than hatred of all non-Jews is inherent in the Torah — whatever Pamela Geller’s subway ads would have us believe.

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Newsworks: SEPTA will stop fighting against ads linking Islam to Hitler — NewsWorks

Attorneys for SEPTA have decided not to fight bus ads - scheduled to go up on March 30th!