General News controversal billboard in NY

I'm not seeing the issue. I'm not a military man but I doubt there's a rule that says US Army members can't date or marry Muslims.

 

There really isn't an issue with the relationship, though I'm certain the company is trying to drum up controversy (success) by showing an American soldier together with a Muslim woman by exploiting the whole "OMG SO UNAMERICAN!" aspect of it.

Just another day in advertising. :dry:

 

I don't know why people like to raise hell about everything. It really upsets me that people find this offensive.

 

I don't see what the big deal is. In wars throughout history, people sent to distant lands have fallen in love with people of all walks of life.

What's so new and shocking about this?

 

I see the issue

you have the billboard up, and you just have the random people flaming ... look there is a Muslim on it :bang:

people don't care about what is real - they do not care what the real story is :***:

or even about the difference between Persian and Muslim :tears:

they just remember 9/11 or the fact that there is a war and hate anyone who has darker skin than they do. :dry:

I do some online stuff and it really sickens me with some of the racist stuff I see. :bang:

 

I have some german blood in me... why? World War II. My grandad met the love of his life in Germany because of the war. If war's gonna make things shit for so many people, why can't some people get out happy? People are just complaining about nothing. Classic case of "don't judge a book by its cover".

 

Well, how many women do you know who would want their face on an anti-snoring products ad??

 

I have a few problems with this:
1- If they're basing these couples on real people, then I hope they got their consent, first.
2- This is a sleep aid. This person is talking like she expects it to be able to bring about world peace. Snoring is not a major cause of intolerance.
3- Naturally, it really bothers me that people would be offended by the fact that some American soldiers might like Muslims.
4- It bothers me a little that they would capitalise on a controversial relationship like this (one that raises social questions the likes of which are out of the scope of a mere sleep aid), but it's entirely unsurprising.

 

I see where they're going with it, but it's an obvious attention-whoring maneuver. Real people, huh? What percentage of "real people" are soldiers with conservative Muslim wives? Probably not too big a number. It is purely to get people talking. Is capitalizing on the expected shock value of the picture morally justified? Maybe.

If it were a billboard about tolerance, I can understand it. We (western society) need to see that fearing/hating all Muslims is an exercise in futility. But if it's to sell a snoring gadget? I wouldn't buy it. I don't even know what it looks like!

 

Says something about society that it caused outrage in the first place.

 

She's... a model? I guess she must be really good at smizing...?

 

1. I don't think they need the consent of every interracial couple to be able to do this. Based on real couples doesn't mean 2 specific people necessarily, and even so, I am sure an advertising agency would have considered this.

2. Does it matter what the product is? Is it a bad time ever to raise social issues. What if a gay/lesbian couple were featured? It is trying to advertise it as something normal and okay, not making it out to be something monstrous. The people in the ad look happy together.

3. Agree, though thats a fault of people and not of the ad itself.

4. How are they capitalizing on anything? They aren't exploiting anyone to gain benefits. Yes it is a social issue, but that doesn't necessarily relate to exploiting. All couples can be affected by snoring. As it turns out it isn't just single-race couples. Again if it was a gay couple, would you pissed that they exploit gays to gain attention or happy that a gay couple is being used in a place where a straight couple would normally be?

I think this type of ad is good because it breaks norms of what people expect to see and gets exposure to a completely normal and okay situation.

 

I don't see an issue - although I can see how it's gotten criticism, especially since it's not an ad you frequently see. Also, who's to say the American soldier isn't Muslim himself? or that the woman is not American? There are Muslims serving in the American army, and there are American muslim women who wear the niqab.

 

I honestly don't see a problem with the billboard. Am I just dense?

 

Um....while I do see the relevance to the product.....and do think it was just to cause a stir.

Lovely couple they put on there. I know they arent real, but I still think its cute. People need to stop lumping all Arabs and Muslims together. There are good and bad in every religion.

 

Guess what. PEOPLE GOT MARRIED!!!!!!!!! So terrible.

 

They're not trying to say that there are abundant numbers of conservative American Muslims and American soldiers getting married: there aren't. They're trying to humanise Muslims.

The whole point is that there is no specific relevance of a veiled Muslim / Muslim-soldier couple to the product. When you're a woman who wears a niqab or a burqa, to many Americans and Britons you're unwillingly the face of terrorism and some people actually forget that these Muslims are human: they have jobs, they share many of our hopes and fears, and they have snoring issues too.

Do you actually know what the definition of an Arab is or....
Most Arabs are Muslims. It might surprise you to learn that Arabs actually form a minority of the Muslim population: the country with the largest Muslim population is Indonesia. But I don't see what the 'bad' part of those two categories is?