Arabs plan media blitz to improve image in West

Jordan Times ^ | Dec. 29, 2001 | staff

[Nachum]

Let's be helpful! Can you think of some slogans for their new campaign?

[Pearls Before Swine]

How about "We're good guys. We told you so"?

[keithtoo]

How 'bout a blimp with 'Have a Good Year' on one side and 'Infidels' on the other!

Just an idea - probably not a good one.

[Exit148]

How about an Arab planned media blitz to improve the Western image in the Middle East?

[The Kitten]

We've stopped forking it over every time bin Laden calls.

[The Kitten]

Better yet, how about 'Sorry.'

[Nachum]

I've seen an Arab rap group before. Saw the music video on some addball cable station.

[Asclepius]

Gulf Arab leaders, worried that the West increasingly sees Arabs and Muslims as ?evil,? plan to launch a multimillion-dollar media campaign to improve their peoples' image at a summit opening on Sunday.

Here's an idea. Stop killing civilians.

Oh, and rethink the female genital mutilation thing.

[Uncle Meat]

I don't know how the hell they can pull that off.The damage had already been done decades ago.

[NetValue]

"Arab media experts say wealthy countries such as Saudi Arabia have done little to polish their image."

Messgae to Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Kuwaitm and all Arab states:

The best way to improve your image is to do the right thing and not do bad things with your money (like funding terrorists).

A good thing to do is to have just laws and enforce them.

A good thing to do is close down terrorist training camps.

A good thing to do is to stop making and stockpiling weapons of mass destruction.

A good thing to do is remove the societal yoke you place on your women; let them walk unhampered by chador and burka, let them drive the car, let them look beautiful, let them be educated.

A good thing to do is to stop broadcasting hatred against good people of the world.

A good thing to do is to educate ALL your children so they can be part of a constructive economic system and support themselves.

A bad thing to do is to wage a PR campaign to make yourselves look good without actually improving your act collectively and individually.

[Itzlzha]

How 'bout a blimp with 'Have a Good Year' on one side and 'Infidels' on the other!

Personally, I'm more partial to the slogan....

" Make 7- " on one side...

" UP YOURS!!!! " on the other.

To be flown over Mecca, Medina, Bagdad, and anywhere else these vermin congregate!

[b4its2late]

Can you think of some slogans for their new campaign?

Keeping us Arabs all in toil, will do nothing for you but cut your oil.

[Honorary Serb]

Arabs plan media blitz to improve image in West

What are they going to do--hire Ruder-Finn?

The muslim shill PR firm Ruder-Finn suceeded in making the "Bosnian" and Shiptar muslims look good and the Serbs look bad. But it didn't change the TRUE NATURE of the "Bosniak" and "Kosovar" leadership, which is why the territories that they control are nests of terrorists and subversives today.

It's time to UNMASK the true nature of the islamic extremist push for WORLD DOMINATION, and defeat any PR campaigns or other means that they may use to hide their evil plans!!!!

[AlaskaErik]

I am one of those who thought we had no business in the middle east conflict and I also thought Israel was being heavy-handed with the Palestinians. Seeing night after night of Israeli troops killing civilians was starting to turn the tide of public opinion against Israel. September 11th changed all that. The Palestinians were winning and their brethren blew it for them. Now I could give a rat's ass about any muslim. While I am still not a fan of Israel, I could care less what their troops do to any muslim. So any media blitz will not have nearly the impact it would have had prior to September 11th. Too little way too late.

[Wolfstar]

Gulf governments have condemned the attacks, but decry what they see as Western media attempts to link Islam with terrorism.

For once, I'm going to stand up for the media. If Arab states think they have an image problem, they have only radical Islamist to blame, along with themselves for providing a climate for such radicalism to flourish.

[watchin]

"...attempts to link Islam with terrorism" - Sheesh.

How about this:

Visit sunny Mecca

or

Some of us are not terrorists.

or

Allah Yurbasirbil Ongtuwus