[Grem] 'Glory to Allah' on London's red buses, while Christian ads banned

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London’s Iconic Red Buses To Declare ‘Glory To Allah’
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by Raheem Kassam and Oliver Lane
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Britain’s largest Islamic charity says it wants to “break down barriers”
and portray Islam positively by launching a new advertising campaign which
will slap the phrase “glory to Allah” on the side of London buses.

The new campaign by Islamic Relief is, ostensibly, targeted at raising
donations for their Ramadan aid to Syria, but is attracting attention for
the “hundreds” of buses which will be decorated with the phrase
“Subhan’Allah”, or ‘Glory to Allah’.

Muslims reading the advert are told that to “gather the rewards of
Ramadan”, they must to donate to Islamic Relief, an organisation which had
its accounts with banking giant HSBC closed
<http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/National/Terrorism/article1651954.ece>
due
to “concerns that cash for aid could end up with terrorist groups abroad”.

Public transport has been chosen for the Islamic re-branding in London,
Manchester, Leicester, Birmingham, and Bradford – all UK locations with
high and growing Muslim populations, reports
<http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/allah-goes-on-the-buses-to-aid-syrians-6n8fmkxw0>
the *Sunday Times*.

That the announcement of the new campaign came the day after London crowned
its first Muslim leader, Mayor Sadiq Khan. Islamic Relief called it a “nice
irony” that the two events coincided.

Imran Madden, a British convert to Islam and director of Islamic Relief’s
United Kingdom Branch said: “There is a lot of negativity around Muslims at
the moment involving things such as counterterrorism issues.

“We want to change for the better the perception of Islam. The bus campaign
is about breaking down barriers and challenging misconceptions”.

Mr. Madden, a former geography teacher, said he hoped the posters would
help start a “conversation” in Britain but made no reference to the
evidently supremacist nature of the phrase “Glory to Allah” – often
mistranslated as “Glory to God” by Western media outlets, in the same
tradition as “Allah hu Akbar”, which rather than meaning “God is Great”
actually means “[Our] God (Allah) is greater [than yours]”.

And while* the Times** omits the background of Islamic Relief in their
reporting,* they do admit the posters may “raise eyebrows” among Christians
in Britain.

*A major 2008 controversy was the purchasing tens of thousands of
pounds worth of advertising space on the sides of London buses to promote
the message “there is probably no God”.*

Rejecting the message, the Russian Orthodox Church booked bus adverts in
London in response, declaring “There IS a God, BELIEVE. Don’t worry and
enjoy your life”, reported
<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/feb/05/atheist-bus-christian-response>
the *Guardian* at the time.

Other* Christian groups **have fared less well with London buses. *Then-mayor
Boris Johnson stepped in to ban a message by a Christian group in response
to a pro-gay advertising campaign. After Stonewall told Londoners “Some
People are gay. Get Over It!” Core Issues Trust, a group which promotes the
curing of homosexuals sought to write on the side of buses: “Not gay,
ex-gay, post-gay and Proud. Get over it”.

The decision was challenged, but not ultimately found to be unlawful,
although Mr. Johnson was accused of having made the move to win over gay
voters to the Conservatives.

*Breitbart London* reported
<http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/22/british-cinemas-ban-lords-prayer-avoid-giving-offence/>
in November on* a snubbed* *campaign launched by the Church of England,
which featured the Lord’s Prayer. *England’s state church had *sought to
screen the 60-second slot,* which featured  a farmer, a weightlifter,
gospel singers, children, and the Archbishop of Canterbury praying before
the new Star Wars film *but were banned by cinemas.*

Although it was passed for publication by the British Board of Film
Classification and the Cinema Advertising Authority,* it was blocked by the
Digital Cinema Media (DCM) agency which controls advertising for Britain’s
biggest cinema chains including Odeon, Vue and Cineworld. The company
claimed **they didn’t want to offend non-Christians.*

*The Church of England called** the decision “chilling **in terms of **free
speech”.*

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