A group running a series of anti-Islamic ads in New York City’s transit system is pulling an ad that shows James Foley with the masked militant who killed him.
The ads are bankrolled by a group led by blogger Pamela Geller. They are being yanked after criticism from the American journalist’s family.
Geller’s attorney, David Yerushalmi, says the Foley family was notified that the ads were being pulled.
Yerushalmi says he wrote their lawyer that “Geller understands and feels intimately the pain” they are suffering.
The ad depicts Foley moments before he is beheaded.
The attorney tells the New York Post that other anti-Islamic ads will go forward.
(AP)
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So don’t you think you should remove the picture too, YWN?
A little bit of kavod habrios please
While under American law one’s right to control one’s image: 1) doesn’t apply to news photos; 2) ends with one’s death — certainly it would be derekh eretz not to run a photo of someone being killed if the person’s family objects. This has nothing to do with “anti-Islam” and a lot to do with respecting the privacy of the deceased’s survivors.
While geller and yerushalmi are our answer to sharpton and c vernon mason, I happen to agree with them here. Showing disturbing images is probably necessary to wake up the uneducated sheeple riding the subways and educate them on the dangers of radical islam.
How can these pictures be anti-Islamic? President Obama made it very clear that Isil is not a group of Islamics. That being said, the pictures should not be pulled for the reason of being anti-Islamic.
We are so politically correct… That everyone is nice, kind & just well religiously off-base!!
This ad was not pulled because it is anti-Islam rather because the family would prefer not to see the image of their loved one being brutally beheaded posted all over New York. The other ads will continue to run.
I worry about how even us yidden are devaluing human life by not recognizing the problem here.