Now, if they could just keep the electricity on in Iraq long enough for people to log onto their internet service on their computers to read that site. :rofl:
Extreamly poor taste in joke I know, but here is my point - I wonder who exactly is the target audience for this? It certainly isn't the people IN Iraq. I recognise the symbolism as being very powerfull to Arabs, I don't think the Muslim community born in the west would understand it as powerfully though. Is this directed to Muslim communities in other countries? :-S If so, I think it is lacking some very key requirments for legitimacy for them.
I remember my marketing classes - step one was defining who your target audience was, step two was defining the best way to influence them. I don't think I understand who this message is targeted at. It looks like a government department was given money to put out anti terrorism materials, so they hired cultural advisors and went to town making a rather slick website and multi-media. I love the site, but I was never going to be a terrorist. ;-)
On the plus side I now have a new cool graphic to make a t-shirt with.
