Febuary 28 2009 PARIS,"Princess Hijab knows that L’Oréal and Dark & Lovely have been killing her little by little. With her spray paint and black marker pen, she is out to hijabize advertising. Even Kate Moss is targeted. By day, she wears a white veil, symbol of purity. By night, her black veil is the expression of her vengeful fight for a cause," states Princess Hijab (princesshijab.org) in her manifesto.
What is that cause? In a nutshell, it is to subvert consumer images—especially of women—and to push cultural boundaries.
And few are spared the Princess' black marker and spray paint in her artistic Jihad.
In the online gallery of her "hijabizing" of ad campaigns, lightly clad models in ads for Virgin Music and various clothing companies have been re-dressed by the Princess in veils and chadors (body-length veil), their eyes popping out of face-covering hijabs.
They are striking as much as they are irreverent, and they have caused anger in both Muslim and secular circles.
Cinderella in chador and hijab men
Even Cinderella dancing with her prince in an animated advertisement for the popular fairytale turned film has had her dress changed to a black chador/abaya.
Next to the "hijabized" Cinderella is an ad of a man with a black medieval-style helmet painted over his head, only his bright blue eyes sticking out of the artistic arrangement.
Princess Hijab told MENASSAT that her hijab campaigns are not plastered on the streets of Paris as an act of "art for art's sake," but instead represent a part of what she calls "art propositions for a more global idea."
In this global idea, Princess Hijab means she pursues what she calls her "noble cause," or her "anti-advertising movement" in an attempt to fight today's mainstream and sexist consumerism.
But what she calls her "subverting visuals" are done in a manner that puts it in opposition to a Western-style advertising format, with its images of scantily clad women and underweight men and women used to sell anything from deodorant to coffee.
Seeing this reminds me of a post I done last year
May 6 2008 A COUNCILLOR today called for more control over advertising posters in "culturally sensitive" areas of Birmingham.
Coun Talib Hussain made his plea after a billboard on the corner of Sydenham Road and Golden Hillock Road, in predominantly Muslim Sparkbrook, was defaced.
The hoarding, close to mosques in Anderton Road and Golden Hillock Road and visible to parents and children walking to Montgomery Primary School, promotes Matalan's new swimwear range and features three scantily-clad models.
The models have been covered in thick white paint to conceal bare flesh.
Coun Talib Hussain (Ind, Sparkbrook) criticised the vandalism but said it was a result of the lack of action from city council bosses. He said: "I condemn the people that did this but at the same time it's wrong for companies to put that kind of advert in sensitive wards.
"I have received complaints on a number of occasions not to put adverts like that in Sparkbrook. "The city council should not give permission to advertising like that in these wards. "Having families seeing naked pictures does not bring the community together, it provokes things."
The vandalism is similar to a spate of attacks in 2005 and 2006 by a group called Muslims Against Advertising.
A Birmingham City Council spokesman, said: "Our only power is to approve where advertising can take place, but not what is put on it. "That is between the Advertising Standards Agency and the firm itself."
The ASA said the content of billboard adverts was controlled by billboard owner and the advertiser, and that the agency only had "responsive" powers.
"If we receive complaints we will consider if an advert should be removed."
Well if the phukers dont like the sight of infidel catmeat
They can always fuck off to where every they came from
Now back to the other Jihad
5 comments:
Silly, posturing, pretentious little artiste in a veil out to save women from the Tyranny of Advertising by urging them to submit to the real tyranny of Islam.
Spit.
I can only deduce she wears a Hijab to match how ugly she is on the inside she is vandalising attractive women's pictures out of jealousy for their beauty.
Seriously though, Hijabising Disney characters, now that's a step too far! Disney should commission a cartoon with Mickey Mouse in an AN10 Tankbuster strafing those subserviant motherf*ckers dragging their sorry arses around the kabaa - now thats entertainment!
iSLAM = NAZISM
Hi,
I wonder how could you have such hatred to muslims if you tried at least to go further than media. All you are trying to do is war. Your ways aren't a path to peace. If everyone could just simply communicate, without groups of people and hatred, wouldn't it be simpler? Aren't you the one to blame? Let me tell you something about the veil in the Bible.
Bible : Corinthians 11:1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
11:2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.3But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
11:4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
11:5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
11:6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
11:7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
11:8 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.
11:9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
11:10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.
11:11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
11:12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
11:13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
11:14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
11:15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
11:16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
11:17 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse
11:18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
If that is not enough, you can visit the mosque to some questions
Sincerely,
Maryam
Hijab is ugly, unhealthy, oppressive and demeaning, not to mention pointless. A truly holy god would not make women beautiful then insist that they hide their beauty. Or, at the very least, he would demand that men cover themselves as well. Nothing more disturbing in the west than to see a woman in a black body bag, while her husband and son stand nearby in shorts and T shirts. Allah obviously doesn't have a clue about fairness and equality.
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