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August 11, 2010

New York City Allows Anti-Mosque Ads on Public Buses
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New York City’s Transit Authority has granted permission to displaying
incendiary advertisements on local buses that lobby against construction
of a mosque and Islamic community center near the site of the 9/11
attacks. The ads show a plane about to crash into a flaming World Trade
Center, with the caption "Why There?" The right-wing group behind the
ad, the "American Freedom Defense Initiative," sued the Transit
Authority last week after the ads were first denied.



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