A billboard advertisement in Arabic has appeared on a Michigan highway mocking Donald Trump and his Islamophobic comments about Islam and Muslims.
The advert, placed on a highway near Dearborn, stated in Arabic text: “Donald Trump can’t read this, but he is scared of it.”
The billboard was paid for by the Nuisance Committee, a campaign group formed by the people behind the popular game “Cards Against Humanity”.
Spokesperson for the group, Melissa Harris said Dearborn was chosen because it has one of the largest Arab communities in the U.S.
She told WWJ Newsradio 950: “I like the idea of people who do not speak Arabic having to ask their friends who do speak Arabic to translate the board for them. And I personally hope this also will generate some dialogue between Arabic speaking people and non-Arabic speaking people in Detroit and across the country.”
Special packs of cards about the Republican presidential candidate and his Democrat opponent, Hillary Clinton, have been funding the group’s political advertising.
The makers vow that “at the end of this promotion, Cards Against Humanity will tally up the sales of both packs, and depending on which pack gets more support, we will donate all the money in support of Hillary Clinton’s campaign”.
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The group has previously used Star Trek’s George Takei to narrate a campaign video comparing Trump’s position towards Muslims to the US policy of internment for the Japanese during World War Two.
The use of Arabic writing to poke fun at a fear of Islam was seen earlier this year in a tote bag designed by Rock Paper Scissors in Haifa. It read: “This text has no other purpose than to terrify those who are afraid of the Arabic language.”
