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<p class=""><span class=""><span class="">by</span> <a class="" href="http://www.breitbart.com/author/raheem-kassam-and-oliver-lane/">Raheem Kassam and Oliver Lane</a></span><span class="">8 May 2016</span><a rel="nofollow" class="" href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/08/london-buses-declare-glory-allah/#disqus_thread">7,072</a></p>
<h2><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">Britain’s largest Islamic charity says it wants to “break down
barriers” and portray Islam positively</span> by launching a new advertising
campaign which will slap the phrase <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">“glory to Allah” on the side of
London buses.<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><span style=""></span></span></span></h2>
<p>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’.</p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">Muslims reading the advert are told <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">that to “gather the rewards of
Ramadan”, they must </span>to donate to Islamic Relief, an organisation<span class=""> which had its accounts with banking giant HSBC <a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/National/Terrorism/article1651954.ece" target="_blank">closed</a> due to “</span>concerns that cash for aid could end up with terrorist groups abroad”.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">Public transport has been chosen for the Islamic re-branding
in London, Manchester, Leicester, Birmingham, and Bradford</span> – all UK
locations with high and growing Muslim populations, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/allah-goes-on-the-buses-to-aid-syrians-6n8fmkxw0">reports</a> the <em>Sunday Times</em>.</p>
<p>That the announcement of the new campaign came <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">the day after London
crowned its first Muslim leader, Mayor Sadiq Khan. Islamic Relief called
it a “nice irony” that the two events coincided.</span></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“We want to change for the better the perception of Islam. The bus
campaign is about breaking down barriers and challenging
misconceptions”.</p>
<p>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]”.</p>
<p>And while<em> <b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">the Times</span></b></em><b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> omits the background of Islamic Relief
in their reporting,</span></b> they do admit the posters may “raise eyebrows” among
Christians in Britain.</p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>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”.</b></span></p>
<p>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”, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/feb/05/atheist-bus-christian-response">reported</a> the <em>Guardian</em> at the time.</p>
<p>Other<span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b> Christian groups </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>have fared less well with London buses.
</b></span>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”.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><em>Breitbart London</em> <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/22/british-cinemas-ban-lords-prayer-avoid-giving-offence/">reported</a>
in November on<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> a snubbed</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b>campaign launched by the Church of England,
which featured the Lord’s Prayer. </b></span>England’s state church had <span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b>sought to
screen the 60-second slot,</b></span> which featured a farmer, a weightlifter,
gospel singers, children, and the Archbishop of Canterbury praying
before the new Star Wars film <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>but were banned by cinemas.</b></span></p>
<p>Although it was passed for publication by the British Board of Film
Classification and the Cinema Advertising Authority,<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> 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 </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>they didn’t want to offend non-Christians.</b></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b>The Church of England called</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> the decision “chilling </b><b>in terms of </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b>free speech”.</b></span></p></div><div id="DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br> <table style="border-top:1px solid #aaabb6">
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