"Signifies a Cool Culture"

Riders on buses here in Richmond, Virginia are being exposed to little posters in an effort to show what bigots they are.
The posters with the aged look of an antique book are covered in Arabic calligraphy and have been placed on some 170 GRTC (Greater Richmond Transit Authority) buses for the last month. The calligraphy is apparently there to stir up feelings of latent Islamophobia in Richmonders who then on closer examination of the posters notice in tiny print on the bottom the translation of the Arabic. The phrases all turn out to be harmless bon mots such as "I'm a Little Tea Pot" or "Paper or Plastic", or my favorite "Rock, Paper, Scissors". This is then supposed to cause the rider of mass transit to smack himself (or herself) on forehead and say "Oh silly me, how have I been so brainwashed by the Bush-Cheney-Halliburton Combine into such unwarranted feelings of fear and loathing of my Muslim neighbors.
The campaign is the idea of "A More Perfect Union, a project of the Virginia Interfaith Center", and as with all such campaigns has been created because ''We need to challenge ourselves.''
After all according to Gretchen Schoel,executive director of A More Perfect Union,...

''After World War II, when people saw Japanese script it was scary,'' she said. ''But now we see it and it's fun, it's hip, it signifies a cool culture.''

Maybe that's not the best analogy she could have used.