Tribune: A United States federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that an anti-Muslim group cannot post ads on buses in Washington showing photos of wanted terrorists and wrongly claiming the FBI offers a $25 million reward for one of their captures.
American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), an anti-Muslim group, claimed that King County had violated its First Amendment right to free speech by refusing to post the advertisements on buses. However, a three-judge panel of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected their claim and ruled against them.
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Pamela Geller, the leader of the group which had earlier organised a Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) cartoon contest in Texas that had ended in violence, has put up similar ads in other cities. She had gone to court after some transportation officials in Washington had refused to display the ads.
Categories: Accepting Islam, Americas, Answers to Anti-Islam, United States