In this Daily Beast op-ed, filmmaker Dean Obeidallah talks about the lawsuit he filed recently against the MTA for not allowing posters featuring the humorous side of the Muslim community to be displayed in the NYC transit system
Examples of the “offending” ads: “The Ugly Truth About Muslims: They have great frittata recipes.” And another announcing: “Beware! The Muslims Are Coming! And they shall strike with hugs so fierce that you’ll end up calling your grandmother and telling her you love her!”
Dean further comments, “MTA lawyers made it clear that our ads, ads intended to show that Muslims are ordinary people with a sense of humor (and a sense of hummus), had no place in their New York City subway system.”
