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cosmicone

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Wed Nov 27, 2013, 03:21 PM Nov 2013

Gap's vandalized ad featuring Sikh model prompts great response from company [View all]

Source: Times of India

WASHINGTON: A Muslim senior editor reportedly came across a vandalized subway ad for Gap, featuring Sikh actor and jewellery designer Waris Ahluwalia, and brought the designer company's attention to the racist messages scribbled on the ad, prompting a swift and incredible response from them.

Senior editor at The Islamic Monthly and founder of TheMuslimGuy.com, Arsalan Iftikhar, posted the picture of the ad on his Twitter and Facebook wall, in which the caption had been changed from 'Make Love' to 'Make Bombs', and the writer had also scrawled 'Please stop driving TAXIS' onto the poster.

Iftikhar said that when he came across the picture, he wanted the world to see how millions of brown people are viewed in America today, Huffington Post reports.

Within a day of posting the picture, Gap tweeted back at Iftikhar, asking him to help them find the location of the ad and the company even extended their support by changing their account's Twitter background to the picture of Ahluwalia.

Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Gaps-vandalized-ad-featuring-Sikh-model-prompts-great-response-from-company/articleshow/26477285.cms

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