San Francisco Hate Speech Controversy



(San Francisco, California)

The American Freedom Defense Initiative is a Pamela Geller-led organization that seeks to inform Americans about the dangers of Islamic extremism.

Among other things, AFDI has placed advertising on buses in several metropolitan areas that contain educational messages.

Many Muslims regard these posters as dirty pool, because they are so unfair as to quote the actual words of respected Islamic clerics.

The District Attorney is among several San Francisco leaders claiming that the bus advertising is hate speech and Islamophobic bigotry, apparently disregarding the fact that the words originated with Islamic clerics.

This is one of the most perverse reversals of common sense ever. Praising the killing of Jews isn’t hate speech, that is perfectly fine! But exposing the fact that Hamas advocates killing Jews–that is “hate speech,” and “Islamophobic bigotry” which “good people” are obligated to condemn!

And those who seek to let people know that Hamas views Jew-killing with unalloyed favor are “well-known hate extremists!” Members of Hamas and other jihadists escape any condemnation whatsoever; apparently they are just like Rotarians or Boy Scouts, or members of the Democratic Party.

The world is upside-down.