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Why might the US government create such a visual argument? After 9-11 the public unfairly and harshly dealt with many Muslim people in this country and by those is law enforcement. This visual argument/ad is from the US Justice Department and seems like a training poster for those is law enforcement, Immigration, airport security. It is explaining some very important aspects for a Muslim-respect, privacy, searches by same sex, and explanations as to why the person is being stopped and possibly searched. If you look at the pictures you can see that there are many different ways a woman can wear her headscarf. And if you look at the images, you can see many different nationalities of women wearing headscarf’s. They are wearing them for a reason and this poster is letting those who may not be familiar with the Muslim faith know why and how they might be wearing them. The images also portray a young Muslim man wearing the traditional skullcap. The poster would not be as effective if there were not images to go with the descriptions. It would not be effective if there were only verbiage-people associate better visually and the descriptions of the headscarf’s would not be as clear. The images that people had after 9-11 were not correct and needed to be corrected. This poster sets out to do just that. As for the information at the bottom of the poster from the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, it does ad credibility to both the images and the descriptions. Theya re saying that they are part of this country, and part of the solution to some of the problems associated with Muslims in America.
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