In the Washington subway banned caricatures of the prophet Muhammad

Washington transport authorities did not allow the organization, conducting a campaign in defense of freedom of speech, to place in the subway of the American capital caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

The American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), in early May, organized an exhibition of cartoons of the prophet who won the competition established by her in Garland, Texas.

It is a the event ended shooting during which two armed men were killed, who attacked a policeman guarding the exhibition hall.

Despite this, the organizers of the competition decided to put a caricature in the Washington subway that won the main prize.

However, the transport authorities decided to prevent this by banning any posters and advertisements of political, religious and propaganda content on the subway.

The leadership of the transportation department of the American capital unanimously voted to ban advertising, pursuing any political or ideological goals.

AFDI founder Pamela Geller harshly criticized this decision, calling it an attack on free speech.
"That's why I'm drawing you"

On her website, she wrote that such concessions to terror are a complete and absolute defeat.

“These cowards may claim that they care about the safety of citizens, but I say the opposite. They make it much more dangerous for Americans to be anywhere,” said Pamela Geller.

The poster she wanted to display on the subway showed a bearded, turbaned Prophet Muhammad waving a sword and shouting, “You can’t draw me!” The artist, holding a pencil in his hand, answers him: “That’s why I draw you.”

Pamela Geller claims that this caricature expresses a political stance and does not contain any calls for violence.

Her organization, which critics have accused of hating Islam, has already hung up controversial advertising posters on Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco subways and buses. In 2012, her posters appeared in the Washington subway.

Pamela Geller: Scandalous blogger from the USA

Pamela Geller is a tough critic of Islam since 2005 of the year. She gained fame in 2010, thanks to her struggle with plans to build the center of the Islamic community in Manhattan, near the site where the World Trade Center towers stood.

Geller heads the human rights organization American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), notorious for its advertising in buses that criticize Islam.

Pamela Geller, 56, calls herself a free speech activist, but critics call her a “fanatic.”

She insists that the target of her criticism is exclusively radical Islam. Nevertheless, she is credited with saying that “Islam is the most anti-Semitic, genocidal ideology in the world.”

About the Garland exhibit of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, she said, “We draw Muhammad because we are free... We draw Muhammad because our unalienable rights are enshrined in the First Amendment.”