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Anti-jihad ‘savage’ ads going up in NYC subway

By Karen Matthews
Published September 20, 2012 4:00am ET
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Anti-jihad ‘savage’ ads going up in NYC subway
In this Sept. 11, 2012 photo, anti-Islamic blogger Pamela Geller, speaks at a conference she organized entitled; "Stop Islamization of America," in New York. An advertising campaign initiated by Geller's group, "The American Freedom Defense Initiative," will have its ads that equate foes of Israel with "savages" appearing in 10 New York City subway stations after a federal judge ordered the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to put them up. (AP Photo/David Karp) | David Karp

NEW YORK (AP) — A provocative ad that equates some Muslim radicals with savages is set to go up next week in the New York City subway system, just as violent protests in the Middle East are subsiding over an anti-Islamic film ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad.

A conservative blogger who once headed a campaign against an Islamic center near the Sept. 11 terror attack site won a court order to post the ad in 10 subway stations on Monday. It reads, “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”

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