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A rickshaw driver, his vehicle adorned with a message of peace, makes his way through the slums of Karachi, Pakistan on Feb. 2, 2013.
By Sebastian Abbot, The Associated Press
Published at 5:23 a.m. ET: KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistani youth leader Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi has a plan to counter the relentless message of violence spewed forth by radical Islamic groups in his country — and he is stealing a gimmick from the hard-liners' own playbook to do it.
His weapon: the three-wheeled motorized rickshaws that buzz along Pakistan's streets carrying paying customers.
Fareed Khan / AP
Artists prepare colorful panels for rickshaws in Karachi on Feb. 2, 2013.
Radical Islamists have long used the rickshaws as a canvas to display slogans in support of religious warfare in neighboring India and Afghanistan and to foster hatred against the United States.
Zaidi is turning that strategy on its head with a fleet of rickshaws emblazoned with peace slogans and decorated with colorful designs similar to those found on many trucks and buses in the country. Read the full story.
A Pakistani youth group is taking on propaganda from radical groups by decorating rickshaws with messages promoting peace. NBCNews.com's Alex Witt reports.
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Aren't the peace signs upside down?
Yes, and the way I always understood it, is an upside down peace sign meant "war".
Another manipulated photo by State run NBCPakistan bias news, unless the Pakistan's spell "peace not pieces" in English! The rickshaw wouldn't make it a block without being destroyed! Only uninformed O'Bama voters would believe the photo is Authentic, Mooslime sheep!
The photo is not manipulated. In fact English is an official language of Pakistan. You can find out more about the country at the Basic Facts page on the web site of its government's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
Where's your turban?
"A rickshaw driver, his vehicle adorned with a message of peace, makes his way through the slums of Karachi, Pakistan"
See the surroundings of all rubbles around the rickshaw!
This is known as living in Islamic fantasy Islands!
That was my first thought, too. They are upside down. I read about the origin of the peace symbol once. It was in a Stephen King novel and the origin was from two letters in semifor (sp?) An 'N' and a 'D' and the two letters stood for nuclear disarmament.
upside down...that's what she said...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBPq27OAUOY
Matthew 5:48
Jesus says in his
Sermon on the Mount,Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is
perfect.
The Biblical interpretation of perfect is,Holy and complete,not as the
politicians and the Media interpret it,as something that they can never be,and
proud of it too.If you can't be perfect,Holy and complete,as Jesus says,having
the perfect love of God that casts out fear,the Holy and complete love of God
that casts out fear even the fear of loving your enemies,instead of fearing them
and killing them in wars,or seeking to be as Jesus wants you to be,obeying
him,then you're not qualified for that job in the eye's of God if you're a
leader asking others to follow you,and that you're following God,in that you're
claiming to be moral.Jesus wouldn't ask it of you if it were not possible.
"A rickshaw driver, his vehicle adorned with a message of peace, makes his way through the slums of Karachi, Pakistan on Feb. 2, 2013."...seconds before it rolls over an IED.
You bet.
You can also call him an victim of Islamic madness due to Saudis and Pakis, fountainheads of Islamic extremism on rampage all over the world including Muslim nations.
The Islamic extremist Frankenstein monsters have started backstabbing big time the inventers of Pakistan, British, and the masters (US and allies) who kept them alive.
In most of the Islamic terrorism and plots in the US, Britain, Europe and other places, Pakis have a hand.
Half of NATO forces deaths in Afghanistan are due to Pakis.
Before followers of Islamic cult set their feet on Afghan and Paki regions, these regions were quite peaceful and prosperous.
Once the cancer of Islam gradually got control of the region, those regions have become raping, stealing, looting and killing fields.
In Afghanistan, Paki proxies Taliban did not even tolerate Buddha’s statue in Bamiyan.
Many Paki areas and some Afghan areas have become breeding and exporting centers for illegal activities including drugs growing and trading and export of Islamic radicals and terrorists all over the world.
British invented Pakistan in 47 and Pakistan is supposed to be a pure Islamic nation. In Pakistan, it was massive genocides of minorities in between 48-50.
Percentages of Hindus and Sikhs were reduced from about 24 percent less than three years by rapes, stealing, lootings, terrorizing and killing on a massive scale.
Paki Islamic religious madness did not end there.
Sunni Pakis are after Ahmedias, Sufis (fake love and dance Islamic soap opera people), Shiites (20 percent), Hazaras, and Baloochs and other minority sects/tribes.
Shiites, Sufis, Ahmedias and other minority sects/tribes people are blown up while they pray in their mosques on Fridays. And even hospitals are bombed to kill those injured.
In Pakistan, insane one-way traffic Islamic clerics, highly corrupt and bigoted military and intelligence and feudal, corrupt and short-sighted bigoted cheap politicians are main culprits.
Looks like that upside down peace sign is a person holding with their hands up in reaction to the violence spewed forth by radical Islamic groups.. They all need to stand up and rise up againest these groups.. We try to help them and they hate us for it.. We should leave them all to themselves and let them kill eachother... We do not need to be the world police - we need to stop sending them money - money does not buy peace.. It buys more violence spewed forth by radical Islamic groups..
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And in a few days you will hear about militants shooting rickshaw drivers who have slogans for peace on their vehicles.
. . Not quite our hippie generation but hooray......MAKE LOVE - - NOT WAR.....
imagine or try to fool like the rest like Sufi sect people!
They sing and dance all day and night about "love" and "peace" and so on!
Many Afghan, Paki and African areas fell into the trap of "LOVE" of Sufi sect.
Now in Pakistan their mosques are bombed on Fridays and in Mali, al Qaida and Salaffi drove them out and killed some clerics too!
So much for "love" and "peace" of followers of Islamic cult!
Does anybody realize that that "peace sign" was originally the patch of a bomber group in World War II? It's a god's-eye view of a bomber, for crying out loud. But the hippies hijacked it in the 1960s. They took a symbol of honorable service to one's country and turned it into the Footprint of the Great American Chicken. For that reason, I despise the sight of the thing, though not what it now represents.
rickshaw with peace signs...or is it a cleverly devised IED...for a new T.V. show over there...Pop My Ride...
Just because there is a sign on the 'rickshaw' that encourages peace does not mean the terrorists will not use them as concealment on a regular basis.