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Newsweek Op-Ed: Why the MTA can't be the offensiveness police
http://www.newsweek.com/why-mta-cant-be-offensiveness-police-330484****
New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority decided to stop taking political and religious advertisements in late April following a torturous legal battle that sparked a discussion among litigation experts and free speech advocates over the limits of the First Amendment.
The battle centered on an advertisement placed by American Freedom Defense Initiative, a pro-Israel group, that read: “Killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah.” The ad featured a man wearing a face scarf and the caption, “That’s his Jihad, what’s yours?”
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The MTA did not want to run the ad, arguing in court that it could incite violence and therefore did not meet the requirements for First Amendment protection. Judge John G. Koeltl thought otherwise.
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