A Northern Virginia cab driver says he was verbally and then physically attacked last Friday by a passenger who spouted off anti-Muslim slurs and expressed anger over last month’s bombings at the Boston Marathon.

Metro agreed to pay $35,000 in legal fees after a federal judge ordered that the transit agency could not refuse posting the anti-Muslim advertisements purchased in recent months by the New York-based blogger Pamela Geller.

Pamela Geller said last month that her campaign to plaster Metro stations with billboards and banners that attempt to stir up “anti-jihad” sentiment by invoking 9/11 would “go on for years.” Seems like she wasn’t lying.

After rebuttals from a leading Muslim group, the already-provocative ads imploring Metro riders to “Defeat Jihad” are about to get a whole lot more incendiary.

A coalition of religious organizations representing a broad spectrum of faiths is buying up ad space in Metro stations to counter an advertising campaign mounted last week that many observers see as anti-Muslim.

Two days after ads inveighing against jihad went up in four Metrorail stations, a progressive Christian group announced it is buying ad space of its own to hit back at what many perceive as a blatantly anti-Muslim campaign.

It took just a few hours for someone to attempt to obscure a controversial anti-Muslim advertisement that went up yesterday in four Metrorail stations when a high-school teacher used Post-It Notes to cover one up.

After a late court ruling on Friday, a controversial ad equating Muslims with savages will go up in four Metro stations today.