Anti-muslim Ads Won’t Run On Seattle-area Buses

SEATTLE — An anti-Muslim group cannot post ads on buses in Washington state showing photos of wanted terrorists and wrongly claiming the FBI offers a $25 million reward for one of their captures, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a claim by the American Freedom Defense Initiative that King County violated its First Amendment right to free speech by refusing to post the advertisements on buses. The group – whose leader, Pamela Geller, organized the Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas that exploded in violence in May – has similar bus ads in other cities and has gone to court with mixed results after some transportation officials rejected them. David Yerushalmi, the group’s lawyer, said it will appeal Wednesday’s ruling to the U.S.

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