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Times Square – 42nd Street (New York City Subway)--Words of Love and Friendship in Persian, Arabic, and Igbo (Nigeria) on Pamela Geller's words of hate...I had more signs in Persian but I didn’t put them up as I had a police officer watching and ready to arrest me—he’d approached me earlier and asked if I was going to put any stickers on the wall (he’d seen my signs and the double sided mounting tape!)--so I only managed to get a few up--the Persian words are by yours truly--a Moroccan woman who was passing by wrote Love in Arabic, and the Igbo text was written by a sweet young Christian man from Nigeria who spoke to me at great length, visibly upset by the racist ad and who stood guard so I could put up the signs--
PS. I wanted the messages on the notes to be in Persian which is my mother tongue, and in Arabic so people, who tend to get nervous about our languages, could look them up and have themselves a lovely surprise :) Also note that many New Yorkers speak or know someone who can either read Persian or Arabic or Igbo--not to mention that the Persian words (representing Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) for Love (عشق); Friendship (دوستی); Kindness (محبت) and the Arabic for Love (حب) are the same in Dari (Afghanistan) and Urdu (Pakistan) ♥ So that's already over 30 different nationalities and a dozen or so languages and dialects covered on those stickers :)
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Times Square – 42nd Street (New York City Subway)--Words of Love and Friendship in Persian, Arabic, and Igbo (Nigeria) on Pamela Geller's words of hate...I had more signs in Persian but I didn’t put them up as I had a police officer watching and ready to arrest me—he’d approached me earlier and asked if I was going to put any stickers on the wall (he’d seen my signs and the double sided mounting tape!)--so I only managed to get a few up--the Persian words are by yours truly--a Moroccan woman who was passing by wrote Love in Arabic, and the Igbo text was written by a sweet young Christian man from Nigeria who spoke to me at great length, visibly upset by the racist ad and who stood guard so I could put up the signs--
PS. I wanted the messages on the notes to be in Persian which is my mother tongue, and in Arabic so people, who tend to get nervous about our languages, could look them up and have themselves a lovely surprise :) Also note that many New Yorkers speak or know someone who can either read Persian or Arabic or Igbo--not to mention that the Persian words (representing Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) for Love (عشق); Friendship (دوستی); Kindness (محبت) and the Arabic for Love (حب) are the same in Dari (Afghanistan) and Urdu (Pakistan) ♥ So that's already over 30 different nationalities and a dozen or so languages and dialects covered on those stickers :)
Times Square – 42nd Street (New York City Subway)--Words of Love and Friendship in Persian, Arabic, and Igbo (Nigeria) on Pamela Geller's words of hate...I had more signs in Persian but I didn’t put them up as I had a police officer watching and ready to arrest me—he’d approached me earlier and asked if I was going to put any stickers on the wall (he’d seen my signs and the double sided mounting tape!)--so I only managed to get a few up--the Persian words are by yours truly--a Moroccan woman who was passing by wrote Love in Arabic, and the Igbo text was written by a sweet young Christian man from Nigeria who spoke to me at great length, visibly upset by the racist ad and who stood guard so I could put up the signs--
PS. I wanted the messages on the notes to be in Persian which is my mother tongue, and in Arabic so people, who tend to get nervous about our languages, could look them up and have themselves a lovely surprise :) Also note that many New Yorkers speak or know someone who can either read Persian or Arabic or Igbo--not to mention that the Persian words (representing Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) for Love (عشق); Friendship (دوستی); Kindness (محبت) and the Arabic for Love (حب) are the same in Dari (Afghanistan) and Urdu (Pakistan) ♥ So that's already over 30 different nationalities and a dozen or so languages and dialects covered on those stickers :)
Times Square – 42nd Street (New York City Subway)--Words of Love and Friendship in Persian, Arabic, and Igbo (Nigeria) on Pamela Geller's words of hate...I had more signs in Persian but I didn’t put them up as I had a police officer watching and ready to arrest me—he’d approached me earlier and asked if I was going to put any stickers on the wall (he’d seen my signs and the double sided mounting tape!)--so I only managed to get a few up--the Persian words are by yours truly--a Moroccan woman who was passing by wrote Love in Arabic, and the Igbo text was written by a sweet young Christian man from Nigeria who spoke to me at great length, visibly upset by the racist ad and who stood guard so I could put up the signs--
PS. I wanted the messages on the notes to be in Persian which is my mother tongue, and in Arabic so people, who tend to get nervous about our languages, could look them up and have themselves a lovely surprise :) Also note that many New Yorkers speak or know someone who can either read Persian or Arabic or Igbo--not to mention that the Persian words (representing Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) for Love (عشق); Friendship (دوستی); Kindness (محبت) and the Arabic for Love (حب) are the same in Dari (Afghanistan) and Urdu (Pakistan) ♥ So that's already over 30 different nationalities and a dozen or so languages and dialects covered on those stickers :)
Times Square – 42nd Street (New York City Subway)--Words of Love and Friendship in Persian, Arabic, and Igbo (Nigeria) on Pamela Geller's words of hate...I had more signs in Persian but I didn’t put them up as I had a police officer watching and ready to arrest me—he’d approached me earlier and asked if I was going to put any stickers on the wall (he’d seen my signs and the double sided mounting tape!)--so I only managed to get a few up--the Persian words are by yours truly--a Moroccan woman who was passing by wrote Love in Arabic, and the Igbo text was written by a sweet young Christian man from Nigeria who spoke to me at great length, visibly upset by the racist ad and who stood guard so I could put up the signs--
PS. I wanted the messages on the notes to be in Persian which is my mother tongue, and in Arabic so people, who tend to get nervous about our languages, could look them up and have themselves a lovely surprise :) Also note that many New Yorkers speak or know someone who can either read Persian or Arabic or Igbo--not to mention that the Persian words (representing Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) for Love (عشق); Friendship (دوستی); Kindness (محبت) and the Arabic for Love (حب) are the same in Dari (Afghanistan) and Urdu (Pakistan) ♥ So that's already over 30 different nationalities and a dozen or so languages and dialects covered on those stickers :)
Someone had left these signs right in front of the racist ad at 42nd Street Subway, New York City--nearly everyone who passed by stopped to read these signs, some people even took pictures and didn't even notice that there was a costly racist poster right in front of this peaceful display and credit is due to MTA and NYPD for letting this display remain there--
Racist ad in New York City subway: "In any war between the civilised man and the savage, support the civilised man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad."
Racist ad in New York City subway: "In any war between the civilised man and the savage, support the civilised man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad."
Racist ad in New York City subway: "In any war between the civilised man and the savage, support the civilised man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad."
Racist ad in New York City subway: "In any war between the civilised man and the savage, support the civilised man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad."
Most people didn't notice the racist ad and instead looked, read or took pictures of the peaceful display that a Muslim person had left in front of that costly hateful ad--
Most people didn't notice the racist ad and instead looked, read or took pictures of the peaceful display that a Muslim person had left in front of the ad--
Most people didn't notice the racist ad and instead looked, read or took pictures of the peaceful display that a Muslim person had left in front of the costly hateful ad--
Most people didn't notice the racist ad and instead looked, read or took pictures of the peaceful display that a Muslim person had left in front of that costly hateful ad--
Most people didn't notice the racist ad and instead looked, read or took pictures of the peaceful display that a Muslim person had left in front of the ad--
Most people didn't notice the racist ad and instead looked, read or took pictures of the peaceful display that a Muslim person had left in front of the costly hateful ad--
Racist ad in New York City subway: "In any war between the civilised man and the savage, support the civilised man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad."
A photomontage she took
Description of the forum
Photos of the ads
www.flickr.com/photos/ari/sets/72157632470072303/
www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/08/anti-islam-ads-mta-muni
The My Jihad CAIR campaign in San Francisco & other cities in response to them
www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/01/30/170694966/through...
Many of the geller ads were altered
www.theawl.com/2012/09/a-treasury-of-defacings-of-pamela-...
electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora/artists-alter-islamopho...
www.salon.com/2012/09/26/journalist_arrested_for_defacing...
An ad commissioned by the MyJihad.org public education campaign.
In the Twittersphere, Muslims, and even supportive non-Muslims, are using the #MyJihad hashtag at the beginning or end of a declarative statement to describe things they are struggling to overcome or complete in their daily life—whether it is a secular matter like eating less carbs, or spiritual struggles like remembering to pray five times a day. It is a consolidated effort to reclaim the proper use of the term “jihad” since many Muslims say the word has become associated with Muslim extremists who use the word to defend terrorist activity.
Source: MyJihad.org