Pam Geller’s Latest Subway Ad Inadvertently Attacks Hebrew Bible

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December 18, 2012 12:40pm Pam Geller’s Latest Subway Ad Inadvertently Attacks Hebrew Bible Post by HUSSEIN RASHID

Pam Geller has unveiled her latest subway ad which turns out to be just as absurd and offensive as the last—though with quite a bit more irony to it.

“Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers,” it reads, quoting a snippet translated from the Qur’an. As one of the folks behind the #MySubwayAd response to her last round of hateful and wasteful spending, I was pleased to see how absolutely disgusted New Yorkers were, with some even buying counter ads. New Yorkers, of all (or no) faiths, made it clear that they would not tolerate these sentiments.

Yet, instead of listening to people in New York, Geller has decided that she wants to further insult our little village of five boroughs running an ad showing a plane smashing into the Twin Towers. No New Yorker would use this image. We were, and remain, deeply traumatized by that day. If a city could suffer from PTSD, NYC does.

The text of the ad is ostensibly meant to reveal how, in her words, “savage” Islam is. The fragment of the verse she’s referring to reads in full:

We shall cast terror into the hearts of the faithless because of their ascribing to Allah partners, for which He has not sent down any authority, and their refuge shall be the Fire, and evil is the [final] abode of the wrongdoers. (trans. Quli Qara’i)

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1. As the article explains, the Prophet is paraphrasing similar words supposedly from Moses.

It would be an interesting experiment to put up some of the worst curses from the Bible and see how long they last in the subway. There are some barnburners.