Buses to Roll! Victory for Freedom of Speech and Religious Freedom! CAIR Defeated

Leaving Islam Ads on the road again!

I am thrilled to report that the legal matter with Miami Dade Transit has been settled. Not only will FDI and SIOA's buses be going back up, but another twenty will be added to the original buy and rolling down the sweet streets of Collins Avenue.

This is a huge victory on the constitutional issues. This is the work of SIOA. Have you joined our Facebook group yet? Go here now! Have you made a contribution to the bus campaign? Robert and I want to roll this out nationwide. We have no big money, big donors. We aren't Daniel Pipes or CSP or FDD -- we are two people fighting with all the gusto we can muster.

Every dime you contribute goes into these initiatives like FDI at CPAC (buy the DVD), the Aqsa Parvez Memorial,  Geert Wilders at CPAC -- these were actions that I developed and executed with my indispensable colleague Robert Spencer.

But we cannot do it without you. CANNOT.  I am not CAIR with 50 million in dirty Saudi dollars. I am the individual -- trying to change the course of human events. We make things happen. We are on the offense in this war on the West.

Help us. Make a Paypal contribution NOW to  [email protected] (still waiting on a 501c status for SIOA).

We are going nationwide with this campaign, we need dough for buses and lawyers. Ads will be back up May 3rd.

Here is the our lawyer, David Yerushalmi's, statement: Case Demonstrates that CAIR is a Fraudulent Civil Rights Organization Lobbying on behalf of Hamas and the OIC:

April 21, 2010 – Miami, Florida: When the South Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) pressured the Miami-Dade Country Transit Authority to yank bus panel ads contracted and paid for by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer of the Freedom Defense Initiative because the ads were “offensive to Muslims”, the two activists turned to the Law Offices of David Yerushalmi, P.C. for help. Mr. Yerushalmi joined forces with the Thomas More Law Center and the two law firms began preparing a federal complaint alleging breach of contract and a violation of Ms. Geller’s and Mr. Spencer’s First Amendment Rights.

The bus ad, which appears immediately below, began running on Tuesday, April 13th. Just two days later, on Thursday, after pressure from CAIR, the bus ads had already been pulled down and Mr. Yerushalmi’s clients received notice of the ad contract termination through media reports on Friday.

CAIR, as it typically does, issued nationwide press releases and blasted emails to tens of thousands of outlets on Friday crowing over its “victory” of suppressing free speech on the grounds that the ads promoted “bigotry”. Newspaper and other media stories in the Miami Herald, the Orlando Sentinel, Fox Business News, and NBC ran blindly with the CAIR-generated story on Friday with headlines like: “Miami-Dade Transit Throws Islamic Ad Under the Bus.”

Ironically, CAIR, which has been named by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI as a Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas front group and unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror fund raising trial—a trial which culminated in guilty verdicts for all of the Muslim Brotherhood defendants—claims it is “the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organization.”

“It is ironic,” Mr. Yerushalmi noted, “that the media allows CAIR to claim the mantle of a civil rights organization when it embraces censorship by the government all in the service of the “anti-blasphemy” platform of the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC), which calls for international legislation providing for criminal penalties against anyone who “insults Islam and its prophet Mohammed.”

Mr. Yerushalmi added that the Center for Security Policy, a leading Washington D.C. national security think tank run by former Reagan administration official Frank Gaffney, has documented that CAIR is an illegal, unregistered foreign agent of the OIC, receiving millions of dollars from Islamic countries in order to pursue their political goals in the U.S. (See the CAIR Observatory at www.cairunmasked.org.) Mr. Yerushalmi is General Counsel to the Center for Security Policy.

By Friday, the day after the bus ads had been pulled, Mr. Yerushalmi and his co-counsel Robert Muise were prepared to go into federal court early the next week. A teleconference was arranged first with the Miami-Dade County Attorney’s office, which took place Monday afternoon. After listening to Mr. Yerushalmi’s brief, the county attorneys conceded the ads should not have been pulled. By Tuesday, Mr. Yerushalmi had negotiated a full and complete retraction of the contract termination with a NY-based attorney for CBS Outdoor. Not only would the original 10 king-sized ads go back up on the Transit Authority buses, but CBS would run an additional 20 king-sized bus ads for the same original contract price.

The new agreement was inked and signed by Wednesday, April 21. The ads are expected to go back up by ____.

“This is not just an important day for the First Amendment. It is a ‘teaching moment’ to the media and to others in various government agencies who come across CAIR,” Mr. Yerushalmi added. “CAIR is a criminal organization with ties to Hamas and other jihadists. This is not my opinion but the considered view of the U.S. Attorney’s office, the FBI, and the federal courts, all based on the evidence CAIR has never refuted. If you find yourself on the same side of an issue with CAIR, you’d better examine the facts a bit more closely. You’re likely in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood, even if only unwittingly.”

Mr. Yerushalmi is currently prosecuting two separate fraud cases against CAIR brought by Muslim American former CAIR clients who were defrauded by CAIR.

About David Yerushalmi, Esq.

David Yerushalmi has been practicing law for more than 26 years. He is a litigator specializing in securities law, public policy relating to national security, and public interest law. Mr. Yerushalmi is licensed and practices in Washington D.C., New York, California, and Arizona.

UPDATE  Robert has a great post here.

Comments

[bse5150]

Victory! Keep up the good work! Just thought that you guys should put ads up on the web since you'll probably stand to reach tons more Muslims who may be thinking of bailing out of The Great Lie.

[Suresh Vyas]

Here I share some general info about islaam, and how to keep it out of the kafir lands of the world.

- History shows that when and where islaam comes in, peace goes out.

_ Islaam has spread by two ways: 1) by producing children with four wives like pigs, and 2) by invasions and forcible conversions.

-If the young generation studies a few major religions of the world to find out which religion is able to cause world peace, they will see that Islaam has no ability to cause peace. Islam is very much able to cause wars, loss of freedom, and it does not allow independent critical thinking.

- Of all the people of the world, the Hindus of India have suffered from islaam the most. Islaam invasions in India since 1000 years have caused 56,000,000 Hindus' genocide, and the world does not know it.

- Islaam does not accept any democratic gov.. Therefore, any Muslim living in a democratic country is a hypocrite Muslim. Therefore, they either need to quite islaam, or quit the democratic country.

- All the Muslim countries have only Islaam as the legal religion. Therefore, all the democratic countries need to declare Islaam as the illegal religion. When this is done by grass root actions, it will become more easy to check islaam in kafir countries.

- Islaam demands the followers' alliance with Islam, not with the counrtry/land or constitution of kafir countries.

- When the forefathers of USA made the constitution, they did not know that Islaams' terrorism and strategies and tactics to take over could be a grave threat to freedom. They did not have slightest idea that islaam could be a threat at all. Now we know well it after 9/11, and therefore we Americans need to amend the constitution declaring islaam illegal in USA. The constitution need to be in accordance with the known truths, else it will not be able to protect life, liberty, and justice for all.

If Americans do not wake up and act, the islaam-cancer will spread beyond control, and then in USA you will see only the burquas, mosques, minarets, madressas, and mullas. No churches, temples or synagogs or music. The whole US constitution will be replaced by sharia that gives no freedom.

[Hannon]

Great work. I would like to see these placards in all big American cities on all the buses. Start by expanding to Minneapolis!

I think this is an effective way to get people to mull over the idea of Islam and "breaking away" from it. Who imagines that Muslims would want to leave their "religion of peace"? Better to get them thinking about something they know little or nothing about than just reacting to what they hear. Obviously it would be a service to Muslims as well.

On a large scale, this would probably be the most cost-effective way to alert city folks (the ones who need it most) to the fact that Islam enjoys operating under a cloak of ignorance and deception. For now.

Thank you for you important work.

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i just wanna ask a question what is wrong with u and islam u think that islam isnt a peace religion and muslims arent peaceful humans so ur wrong like always .is israel the peaceful religion ???? plz dont say yes bec who are u kidden the humans in palastine and iraq are been killed . u have no degnity .u wanna talk about islam i will tell u about islam . islam is the religion of forgiveness the religion that say dont lie ,dont cheat ,dont steal the religion of equality the poor man have the same rights as the president the woman has the same rights as the men . in islam there isnt any difference about the color of ur skin or the color of ur hair in islam we are all equal in islam u wanna know why pork is forbeddin bec it kill u how can u eat some thing that eats trash and mud . and tell me one reason why would u leave it after what u read and u know sth i am not scared of u u asked for my facebook and i gave it to u and u mr .author has to read it before publishing it .if u america is a democratic country publish this comment oof mine bec u have to take all the opinion or what u said so many bad thing about us muslims but there is sth that u have to know we are not cowards .the muslim in the east love the christian u are the ones that have no democracy ur the one who are afraid of ur shadows .we muslims in palestine fight with rocks while u fight with guns annd bombs and have shelids not afraid to die u know why bec israel took everything we own what else do u want . but we wont die every hero dies another one will take his place and i am not sying all this to make a fight its a point of view. thx very much