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Anti-Islam blogger pulls NYC subway ads with James Foley image
A controversial blogger has agreed to pull her equally controversial anti-Islam advertisements that were supposed to show up in the New York City subway system starting today. The ads showed an image of American journalist James Foley just before he was beheaded by ISIS last month.
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The ads were financed by firebrand blogger Pamela Geller. However, elected officials and Foley’s family objected to the ads, which were going to be seen at MTA bus and subway stations. She also planned on posting them in San Francisco.
The New York Daily News reports that Geller did send a letter to Foley’s family, explaining her decision.
“As a mother, and one who still feels the pain of the hideous murders of many in her extended family by the Nazis, and with friends in Israel brutally affected by Islamic terrorism as a constant of daily life, Ms. Geller understands and feels intimately the pain your clients are suffering,” the letter, written by her attorney, David Yerushalmi, reads. “For this reason, and this reason alone, (Geller has) reached out as early as this morning to the New York and San Francisco transit authorities’ respective advertising agents to pull the displays depicting the captive Mr. Foley prior to his beheading.”
Geller leads the group American Freedom Defense Initiative and had spent $100,000 on the ad blitz, timed with the ongoing national discussion of what to do about the Islamic State militant group in Syria and Iraq.
While Foley will not appear in the ads, the New York Post reports that Geller’s group will release new ads showing another hostage. This time, the face will be pixelated.
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