HUFFINGTON POST: Arsalan Quoted on Racist Graffiti on Gap Subway Ad

From Huffington Post

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This is how the Internet is supposed to work.

Arsalan Iftikhar, senior editor at The Islamic Monthly and founder ofTheMuslimGuy.composted a picture to his Twitter and Facebook wall of a defaced subway advertisement for Gap featuring Sikh actor and jewelry designerWaris Ahluwalia. The caption had been changed from “Make Love” to “Make Bombs,” and the writer had also scrawled “Please stop driving TAXIS” onto the poster.

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The next day, Gap tweeted back at Iftikhar to find out the location of the ad, which is part of its holiday “#MakeLove” campaign featuring a wide variety of diverse models.

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But that wasn’t all. The company proceeded to change its Twitter background to the picture of Ahluwalia, to show solidarity and support.

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