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Here's freedom of expression: Mona Eltahawy prints her own copies of the subway add, spray paints them, and then pays MTA to hang them.

What Mona did was try to block out some one else's message with vandalism.

Also, letting paint fumes loose in the subway is most offensive thing in this story. Mona should be banned from the MTA for a few years.
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Similar joke, once told by a tropical forester:

A Zimbabwe bureaucrat is visiting his counterpart in France. He's impressed by the opulence of the Frenchman's home and asks how he can afford such luxury. THe Frenchman smiles, points to a street and says, "you see that street?" He rubs his fingers together. "Thirty percent."

Some years later, the situation is reversed, and the Frenchman is quite surprised to see the huge mansion the Zimbabwe bureaucrat has. He asks how he can afford it, and the Zimbawean says, "You see that road down there?" Confused, the Frenchman points out there's no road to see. The Zimbabwean grins and says, "One hundred percent."
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cue Yakov Smirnoff
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There have been pro-Islam ads in the subway on NYC and many other cities including one which urged people to convert. CAIR and other organizations have bought ad space on TV, radio, and newspapers with a pro-Islam media. Similar confrontational bus ads and billboards which are pro-Palestinian have been up, sometimes in cities that refused to have similar ads which denounced Islamic terrorism. I see an ad in the Stranger almost every week in which Israel is accused of "war crimes" and "apartheid".
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"Sure, you can express positive views about Islam on your Facebook account, but not billboards or cable. You are locked out."

Not true. (See above). People come to conclusions about things and ignore that they are wrong even when the proof is in front of their face. Furthmore, ever since 9-11 the NYT has run article after article which presents Muslims in a positive light. They do that for no other religion. Anytime they write about hate crimes Muslims committ they make it sound as though it were a cry for help by the oppressed. They sure don't do that for Christians and Jews.
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No doubt daddy Ebenezer had plenty of time to develop kernels of wisdom while helping Mugabe bend Zimbabwe over and ass-fuck it. Oh, and then he dropped your useless ass in the greatest nation the world has ever known. Equally repulsive.
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I know I should ignore Mudede's nonsense, but for fuck's sake. You make a living expressing your dissent in this capitalist democracy. If that's locked out, I'm George Orwell.
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@5 Are you seriously going to try to make the case that the NYT has never covered the coptic community in Egypt?
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Having never heard of the ads, Mona's action clearly does not block the ad in the least. Instead, she has multiplied their reach at the same time as reinforcing her brand. Think of a certain licked doorknob. Mona should definitely write for The Stranger, and I mean that in a complimentary and appreciative sense.
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Those ads aren't anti-jihad. They're anti-Palestinian.
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Charles, your father was deep! Love that last paragraph. Unfortunately it seems true. Seems like corruption is to blame for some of the poverty in certain African countries. Hope that changes.
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I guess the Muslims in America will go through the same amount of systematic structural insults like the Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, blacka, jewish people etc and continue protesting until it gets through to the majority of the people and becomes, hopefully, so socially unacceptable that no one in their right minds would want to buy ad space to promote their message by insulting them. It's the same thing dan savage says he wants to happen to homophobic slur on tv, make it socially unaccpetable.
There is a difference between criticism and mindless slander. Israel is in fact knee deep in war crimes and have a system that can be called a form of apetheid. It's not an insult of the jewsih people, but of Israeli state policy and practice. There are so much real, actual challenges to be made of Islam and Islamic practices, why would anyone forclose conversation by handing first a verbal slap? I guess they don't really want that conversation.
Charles, does that have something to do with the fact that African countries are known for their compliance for IMF compliance (e.g good governance) and being miserable whereas the asian ones make up their own rules and do rather well?
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@6:

D+

Repetitive and derivative of your previous work. Also, you still have not gotten out of the "yelling racist non-sequitors" period of trolling. Furthermore, you are still not influencing normal posters from engaging you in pointless "debate."

You can do better, apply yourself.


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