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    Mona Eltahawy, the prominent Egyptian-American writer and activist, has been arrested in New York after spraying paint over a controversial poster on the subway that has been condemned for equating Muslims with "savages".


    The posters were put up in the city by the anti-Muslim American Freedom Defense Initiative, led by Pam Geller. They were approved by a US court, which ruled that they were "political" statements and protected by the first amendment, which guarantees free speech.


    The poster states: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man." Between two Stars of David, it adds: "Support Israel. Defeat Jihad."


    Eltahawy was arrested after a supporter of Geller's initiative attempted to prevent her defacing the sign with a purple aerosol.


    The posters are now displayed in 10 New York stations – including Grand Central and Times Square – after a court ruled that the local transport authority could not refuse the ads.


    In a video posted online of the incident by the New York Post, Mona Eltahawy can be seen attempting to paint over the poster before she is tackled by a woman with a camera, who is identified as Pamela Hall.


    "Mona, do you think you have the right to do this?" Eltahawy is asked. "I do actually," Eltahawy replies, adding: "I think this is freedom of expression, just as [the ad] is freedom of expression."


    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/26/activist-new-york-anti-muslim-poster
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    Who are the true savages?

    [ 26/09/2012 - 11:10 PM ]


    By Khalid Amayreh

    images News 2012 09 26 support israel 300 0 - Mona Eltahawy has been arrested

    A recent advertisement in a New York subway station, placed by Jewish fanatics, claimed that Israel represented civility and enlightenment while the Palestinians and other Muslims in general represented savagery, bestiality and primitiveness.

    "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad," read the advertisement.

    The claim that Israel represents civility is actually no less than a fornication with truth, history and even language.

    Historically, Israel was created by East European savages who invaded Palestine with the help of western powers. The invading Jewish savages murdered the native Palestinians, destroyed their homes, bulldozed their fields and then expelled them to the four winds.

    According to Alfred Lillienthal, the late Jewish American writer and author of the Jewish Connection, the early Zionists who originated in Eastern Europe adopted the same fascist traditions that had prevailed in large parts of Europe, including Germany.

    Hence, one would exaggerate very little by saying that Israel is a crime against humanity. What else one could say about a state that superimposed itself right upon another people and another nation?

    What Israel did to the Palestinians, the original people of the region, is not much different from what the White American settlers did to millions of Native Americans. The white settlers exterminated untold numbers, probably more than ten millions, of these helpless American Indians and then called the genocide "manifest destiny."

    In fact this argument was used by Israeli leaders and spokesmen to ward off criticisms of Israeli ethnic cleansing of native Palestinians by some conscientious Americans.

    The Americans would retort by arguing that the extermination of the Native Americans was a sorry chapter in American history just like the issue of slavery. However, the US at least sought to rectify some of these unchangeable historical crimes by introducing equality among all US citizens, irrespective of religion and race, something that Israel is yet to do for its citizens.

    In fact, despite the striking similarities between America's and Israel's stories, there are notable differences.

    Generally speaking, in North America, white settlers didn't build cities, villages and hamlets on the ruins of Native American towns, villages and hamlets. But in Israel, nearly every Jewish town, village or Kibbutz was built on the site of a destroyed and depopulated Palestinian town, village and hamlet.

    The full extent of the Palestinian Nakba, or extirpation of the Palestinian people from their ancestral homeland at the hands of barbaric Jewish invaders from Easter Europe was meticulously documented in Walid Khalidi's marvelous work "All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948."

    I have been living under the Israeli rule for more than 45 years and I honestly fail to see any particular sign indicating that Israel is more civilized than other peoples. In fact, there are tons of evidence proving that Israel can be and often is more savage than other nations.

    I am not going to cite the biblical code of ethics which most Israeli Jews subscribe to. In the final analysis, it is probably unfair to blame or hold contemporary Jews responsible for "religious" books written more than 3,000 years ago.

    However, when these manifestly criminal and nefarious laws are readily adopted and promoted by the Israeli society, there is then more than just a catch-22.

    A few years ago, a settler leader came to Hebron to boost the morale of local settlers. She told them that the best way to deal with Palestinians was to murder every man, woman and child.

    There are many examples one can cite to prove that the distance between Israel and civility is measured not in kilometers and miles, but rather in light years.

    Forget about Jewish and Zionist propaganda, especially in North America, where the black is changed into white, the white into black, the criminals into victims and the big lie into a truth glorified by millions of unsuspecting Americans who consume Jewish lies in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening.

    The truth of the matter is that as far as ideology is concerned, Israel and Nazi Germany are like tweedledum and tweedeldee.

    The Germans thought they were the "Master Race" whereas Zionist Jews think of themselves as the "Chosen people" which is another way of saying "the master race." Don't get me wrong. Jews and everyone else have a perfect right to think of themselves as the Almighty's children. They may even consider themselves mini-gods. This is not the problem.

    The problem arises when these supremacist Jews seek to translate their morbid vagaries and convictions into a venomous political ideology and then act on it.

    I recently watched a you-tube featuring a Jewish rabbi, probably affiliated with the influential Chabad cult, saying that it would be perfectly possible for a Jew to murder a gentile in order to harvest his or her organ if the Jew needed one.

    The man was not hallucinating or imagining things. He knew what he was saying. According to some interpretations of Halakha or Jewish religious law, the lives of non-Jews have no sanctity.

    This is by no means a merely theoretical religious conviction. A few years ago, a Jewish murderer, actually an immigrant from France, decapitated an Arab taxi driver from Eastern Jerusalem. And when the murderer was prosecuted, he told the judge that his neighborhood rabbi told him that he could kill an Arab just like he would kill an animal since the life of a gentile has no sanctity.

    Another example of Israeli Zionist Jewish civility is a statement made by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef during a Sabbath homily in West Jerusalem a few years ago.

    Yosef, the religious and spiritual mentor of one of the largest political parties in Israel, was quoted by the Israeli press as saying that non-Jews were very much like donkeys and other beasts of burden which the Almighty created solely in order to serve the master race, the Chosen people.

    Unfortunately, such statements no longer raise eyebrows in Israel, neither among the political class nor among intellectuals and the intelligentsia, which shows the extent to which fascism and racism are permeating through the Israeli society.

    In fact, we could speak hours and hours and hours about Israeli and Jewish savagery, both in theory and practice. A few years ago, Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu was quoted as saying that "If the Palestinians don't stop after we kill 100, then we must kill a thousand." And, "if they do not stop after 1,000 then we must kill 10,000. If they still don't stop we must kill 100,000, even a million. Whatever it takes to make them stop."

    The same rabbi, who died a few years ago, demanded that the children of Palestinian freedom fighters be hanged in order to inflict maximum emotional pain on their parents.

    Now is this Hitlerian nefariousness an expression of civility on the part of Israel and the Jews? Remember Elyahu was a messianic Jew affiliated with the movement known as Gush Emunim as well as a prominent mentor at the Talmudic College in Jerusalem, known as Merkaz Ha'rav. He was by no means a marginal figure.

    Rabbis in Israel are considered the crème de la crème of society, so if this is their standard of humanity and morality, one can imagine the type of ethics and civility harbored by the non-religious sectors in Israel.

    Unfortunately, in many cases secularist Jews happen to display more humanness and civility in comparison to gung-ho religious Jews who advocate total genocide of Palestinians in what they call "Yeretz Yisrael."

    http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/d...9sH7JSNKZBg%3d
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    Re: Mona Eltahawy has been arrested

    What I want to know is why the lady blocking the poster wasn't also arrested. She assaulted Mona.
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    Re: Mona Eltahawy has been arrested

    Thank you! This proves my point about Freedom of Speech.

    It's a completely joke and a hypocrisy which some people is enshrined in the constitution.

    Why are they allowed to post pro-israeli posters which is clearly offensive and discriminatory to muslims but when a muslim tries to cover it up, she's attacked and arrested?

    WHERE IS THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THAT?

    HYPOCRITES!

    Why don't they just add into the constitution, "Freedom of Speech is available for people of all faiths except applicable to muslims"?
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    On aside, Mona likes to be the centre of controversy. From Egyptian men supposedly assaulting her to this ...
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    Re: Mona Eltahawy has been arrested

    Sorry, just to correct my typos above,

    I meant...

    It's a completely joke and a hypocrisy which some people claim is enshrined in the constitution.

    Why are they allowed to post pro-israeli posters which is clearly offensive and discriminatory to muslims but when a muslim tries to cover it up, she's attacked and arrested?

    WHERE IS THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THAT?

    HYPOCRITES!

    Why don't they just add into the constitution, "Freedom of Speech is available for people of all faiths except for Muslims"?
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    the blocking lady looks decent, so sad that she is defending nonsense.
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    Re: Mona Eltahawy has been arrested

    As a Jew, I'm ashamed of these posters.
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    Re: Mona Eltahawy has been arrested

    format_quote Originally Posted by Hulk View Post
    the blocking lady looks decent, so sad that she is defending nonsense.
    Why do you say she's defending nonsense?
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    Re: Mona Eltahawy has been arrested

    format_quote Originally Posted by Mustafa2012 View Post
    Why do you say she's defending nonsense?
    I think he means the lady with the camera
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    Re: Mona Eltahawy has been arrested

    format_quote Originally Posted by Darth Ultor View Post
    As a Jew, I'm ashamed of these posters.
    Thank you.

    I don't think any orthodox Jew would support the message in those posters.

    It's most likely to be one of the extremist sects that's behind it, of course with the full backing by their close friends in the administration.
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    Re: Mona Eltahawy has been arrested

    format_quote Originally Posted by منوة الخيال View Post

    I think he means the lady with the camera
    Right. Thanks for clarifying.

    Sorry Hulk!

    I've seen this kind of a stunt happen before.

    That journalist blocked the poster not only to try to prevent the poster being sprayed but it's most likely she did it purposely to make Mona look really bad in public.

    She knew what she was doing and she knew she'd get the law on her side and then pretend to be the victim.

    Oh let's all feel sorry for her!
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    The "civilized" west is showing its true color. Hypocrisy at its best. Do people actually believe that we have freedom of speech?
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    Re: Mona Eltahawy has been arrested

    format_quote Originally Posted by CosmicPathos View Post
    On aside, Mona likes to be the centre of controversy. From Egyptian men supposedly assaulting her to this ...
    Haha you're so right akhi! Know what you mean... But lets not talk about that, since some sisters here will jump the gun.

    I think its a usless action, if i decide to use a spray can to cover all the posters in a subway, wouldnt i be arrested to? It suprises me also that the US police didnt shot her , they have a good reputation: Shoot first, ask later. just like US soldiers.

    The posters are another anti-islam propaganda, would've personally pulled them off.
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    format_quote Originally Posted by Allah<3 View Post
    The "civilized" west is showing its true color. Hypocrisy at its best. Do people actually believe that we have freedom of speech?
    I have been saying the same thing for years.

    There is no such thing as "freedom of speech". There are no free elections. Democracy is a lie. There is only the illusion of choice.
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    format_quote Originally Posted by Jedi_Mindset View Post
    Haha you're so right akhi! Know what you mean... But lets not talk about that, since some sisters here will jump the gun.

    I think its a usless action, if i decide to use a spray can to cover all the posters in a subway, wouldnt i be arrested to? It suprises me also that the US police didnt shot her , they have a good reputation: Shoot first, ask later. just like US soldiers.

    The posters are another anti-islam propaganda, would've personally pulled them off.
    I agree. Spraying posters was probably not the best way to cover up that clearly racist and anti-islamic poster.

    A large sticker would have been much more effective.

    She should have complained to the advertising standards watchdog because that kind of propaganda is clearly inciting racism and religious hatred.

    I'm just trying to think how that journalist knew about the incident. She must heave been invited or tipped off.
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    Re: Mona Eltahawy has been arrested

    format_quote Originally Posted by Who Am I? View Post
    I have been saying the same thing for years.

    There is no such thing as "freedom of speech". There are no free elections. Democracy is a lie. There is only the illusion of choice.
    To put it more accurately.

    Freedom of speech is only allowed for non muslims. Its a special club.

    Muslims have no freedom of speech .

    Even though we work as hard as non Muslims and pay our taxes, we still get third class treatment when it comes to our rights.

    That is the civilised, just society we live in.
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    it's shocking how fringe groups can get the go ahead to put up these inaccurate propaganda ads on public billboards. I really hope the Jewish Lobby in the UK don't start canvassin british people like this. They have the money to spend putting up these pointless banners I guess.
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    format_quote Originally Posted by karimium View Post
    it's shocking how fringe groups can get the go ahead to put up these inaccurate propaganda ads on public billboards. I really hope the Jewish Lobby in the UK don't start canvassin british people like this. They have the money to spend putting up these pointless banners I guess.
    Yeah. Money makes people bend the rules.

    But let's not start giving people ideas.

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    Re: Mona Eltahawy has been arrested

    The legal term for what she is doing is "vandalism" because she is defacing another's property. It is an act of civil disobedience, and though I agree with her actions, there will be legal ramifications.

    If I see any of these posters I will cut them down and take the punishment. I don't see any other way around it, so I'll take the handcuffs rather than let **** of that nature go. I don't have enough room in my attic for more than one Muslim family, so I'd rather stop the racism here and now.
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