Stop the Islamization of America
Here is the latest filing in our free speech lawsuit against the US government unconstitutional denial of our SIOA trademark. Love the logo? Buy the poster (here). Want to donate to the cause? Own a piece of history, get an autographed SIOA poster for any contribution of $500 or more. Donate here. ploy is all the more egregious because, as a government agency, the USPTO is tasked with upholding the rule of law as opposed to engaging in a hyper politicized and patronizing advocacy to protect Islam from the terror committed in the name of Islam by self described Islamic jihadis."
Robert Muise, AFLC Co Founder and Senior Counsel, commented: "This case is a classic Orwellian example of the government trying to control language for the purpose of maintaining its agenda of political correctness. the TTAB ignored the overwhelming evidence that the only public use of 'Islamisation' is as a description of an Islamist political agenda to replace secular democracy with Islamic religious law. argue contrary is simply inconsistent with reality."
Here is a link the brief.
"Final Brief Filed in Appeal to USPTO's Denial of Islamisation of America Trademark," American Freedom Law Center, December 19, 2013:
Our organizations, AFDI and SIOA, are on the front lines in America, fighting the imposition of Islamic law one lawsuit at a time. The United States government (USG) denied our application for trademark of SIOA (Stop Islamization of America) because jihadists might be offended. It is the same sharia enforcement that we are facing in Seattle, where Seattle Transit refused to run AFDI submission of an FBI wanted poster of global terrorists because that, too, might offend jihadists. the latest in our lawsuit against the US government enforcement of the blasphemy laws under the sharia from our pre eminenet fighting legal firm, the American Freedom Law Center. (August 30, 2013) The American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), a national, nonprofit Judeo Christian law firm, filed its opening brief today in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, asking the court to overturn the Trademark Trial Appeal Boards (TTAB) denial of the trademark application for "Stop Islamisation of
America" and "SIOA."
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, executive directors of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), an advocacy organization that raises awareness about the human rights abuses perpetrated by sharia adherent Islamists, applied to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in February 2010 to register the trademark "Stop the Islamisation of America" to foster and provide an understanding of how to prevent sharia based tyranny and Islamist terrorism.
The USPTO rejected FDIs application because it deemed that the trademark disparaged Muslims and linked them to terrorism.
David Yerushalmi, AFLC Co Founder and Senior Counsel, commented: "Muslims and non Muslims alike use and understand Islamisation to be the political movement to implement Islamic law or sharia as the law of the land. It has nothing to do with religious conversion. In fact, the term, Islamisation can be traced to the Muslim Brotherhood, where it is found in their own documents advocating civilizational jihad, which seeks nothing less than the destruction of Western Civilization and the establishment of a worldwide Islamic caliphate.
Our Quran ads are curerntly running in Washington DC Metro Cheap Jerseys train platforms to counter Hamas CAIR taqiya (abrogated verse). We are expanding this campaign. Going big in DC and national.
Hamas CAIR Wholesale NFL Jerseys quran ad (with the abrogated quran quote) has gone up in Washington Metro train stations. Look at the disclaimer can you make it out in the teeny tiny top right corner?
our quran ads had to have this giant disclaimer WMATA
can expect another lawsuit. The WMATA is engaging in discriminatory
disclaimer practices in submission to Islamic supremacism. I repeatedly
asked for the specs of the Hamas CAIR disclaimer, to no avail. Now we
see why.
We just concluded our oral argument before the US Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Trial Appeal Board in a very crowded courtroom. Apparently this case has generated a good deal of interest in the US Patent and Trademark office. We argued that no law abiding Muslim could possibly be disparaged by a trademark that reflected our goal to "stop" the Muslim Brotherhood civilization jihad, which is what we proved that "Islamization" means. More here.
David Yerushalmi, co founder and senior counsel to the American Freedom Law Center, argued before the TTAB on our behalf today. There was something special about today argument, not simply because the "senior attorney" for the USPTO office, who handled the examination and rejection, appeared as the USPTO attorney of record (not the examining attorney of record, as is typical), and not simply because the room was packed with USPTO employees in the audience. The oral argument was special because the USPTO had no real legal or factual arguments, but instead made reference to vague and scary "geopolitical concerns and realities" of Islam and such "loaded terms" as "Stop the Islamization of America."
At the conclusion of the oral argument, the chief judge commended our legal counsel on an "extremely well argued" hearing.
Truth is, most of these administrative appeals are rubber stamps which the applicant, AFDI, must then appeal to the federal circuit. You can bet we are ready.
The irony of all this is the sharia compliant rejection of our trademark application illustrates the chilling fallout of the"islamization of America."
But, as my able legal counsel noted, "If this process is not entirely rigged, even if only rigged a bit in favor of the USPTO, we win hands down. The USPTO has the burden when claiming to make a real factual record. In this case, all the USPTO brought to bear were unfounded assertions and vague references to hurt feelings. Under the binding case law, this just doesn cut it."