In the modern world, where Islamophobia is a very real and sad occurrence, some unknown bag manufacturers (and comedy geniuses) have produced a hilarious shoulder-bag with a very relevant point.
So here it is. A plain bag covered in the Arabic language.
Personally, I can’t read Arabic, but when a friend of mine told me what the message is it’s both comical, yet a sad reminder of the times.
Meanwhile in a Berlin metro…. The text on the bag reads:
“This text has no other purpose than to terrify those who are afraid of the Arabic language.”
Posted by Nader Al-Sarras on Tuesday, 16 August 2016
As reported by indy100, as you can see, the message on the bags reads:
This text has no other purpose than to terrify those who are afraid of the Arabic language.
The post went viral incredibly quickly after journalist, Nader Al-Sarras, spotted someone on the Berlin U-Bahn sporting one of the bags and took to Facebook to say so.
As you can probably work out for yourselves, the joke plays on the fact that a lot of people become alarmingly uncomfortable whenever they see something written in Arabic.
A photo posted by Rock Paper Scissors (@rps.mafia) on
Eventually, it emerged that the bags were being produced by a design company called Rock Paper Scissors based in Israel…
I know where I’ll be getting my next bag from.
