About this message on the front of a bus?

[Iop]

This morning in town a bus passed me with the phrase Mash'alla displayed on the front instead of the bus number and destination. AIBU to have found it unsettling?
We're in an area with a large Pakistani Muslim population and there were small pockets of celebration following the initial attacks on Israel (nothing violent or disruptive, just horns/cheering/Palestinian flag waving).
If I were to complain to the bus company (I won't - I don't have time) it would be on the grounds that it's unprofessional for bus drivers to be proclaiming their political or religious beliefs on the front of their busses. But if I'm honest my discomfort was about more than that - I wouldn't have felt as unsettled if the message had been "vote Tory" or "Happy Diwali" even though neither of those reflect my personal beliefs any more than Mash'alla does.
Am I being reasonable or Islamaphobic?

Yes, it was Red Rose! OK I didn't know they're Muslim-owned. Maybe, then, they display that phrase by default on buses safely returning to the depot, as a PP suggested upthread. I've never seen it in 20-odd years living here, but I don't go into the town centre much.

For clarity, the message was written in the Roman / English alphabet, not the Arabic script.

Exactly. But people fail to understand this

You are Islamophobic if you have a problem with it. Local buses display adverts for local areas.

Is has nothing to do with whats going on in Israel.

Nobody IS frothing though.

How is this 'an advert for a local area'?

Even if there were no beheaded children, is it not enough that people were mown down in their hundreds at a festival, shot in their own homes, burned to death in their own homes, raped and then paraded and spat on, and children, old people and others taken hostage?

The Israelis do not need to make stuff up about beheadings (a known practice of ISIS who are the same as Hamas) on top of that.

And if they published such appalling images, they would be accused of using the butchered and causing yet more distress to their families.

FWIW, the Israeli government took the decision not to publish such images and to discourage others from circulating them - holding that if this was done it would mean human beings being objectified and exploited for visibility as part of psychological warfare.

We need the Daily Mail to do a piece on this one.

Completely unacceptable.

Yes, we do. But if they'd put "Allah doesn't think much of Jewish people" on the front, would that have been ok too? Because that's pretty much how I interpret Mashallah in this context right now.

That’s why I spelt it out, as clearly as I could 😊

I didn't say they were.

Muslims have been seen as the enemy since the Crusades.

Surely you mean since the ‘Arab conquests’? I would have thought that the offensive across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, forcibly establishing Islam in formerly Christian territories would have come across as a little hostile?

No. I've tried quite hard to be measured in my responses and deliberately made an effort not to inflame the thread and "get people frothing". I'd have taken a photo, but I was holding DS's hand waiting to cross the road and my phone was in my bag.

Mumsnet is a cesspit of hatred. Let the bus say mashallah ffs, you said yourself you wouldn't give a shit if it said happy diwali. Think about that.

This thread is the worst kind of Islamophobia.

Pakistani Muslims in Pakistan have Mash’Allah permanently written on their vehicle, it’s nothing to do with celebrating killings.

Shame on you, OP.

And no one believe you have have Pakistani friends. No one.

You have not been measured you’ve been racist and Islamophobic with the standard grooming message thrown in.

Shame on you.

Yeah, but South Buckinghamshire isn't Pakistan and it could be mistrued.

"I'm not racist I have a colour TV" 😂

It not islamaphobic for people to be alarmed on seeing a new display of an arabic/muslim word which celebrates the will of god playing out in the immediate aftermath of horrific attack on civilians by islamic terrorists.

I think you are fine. It just goes to show how nervous people are and how White Rose Travel bus should have thought a bit and maybe put a different message up until the British reaction to recent events calms down.

A pp mentioned context.

The context here is timing.

You think about that.

So muslims should stop saying their everyday saying because of something that happened that has nothing to do with them?

Would you tell jews to change their ad campaigns in a Jewish area?

There is context.

About 20 years of context.

However instead of the OP talking to people around her, she decided to try to stir up anger on the internet.

Yeah thats islamophobic to think that, muslims don't have to change their day to day business because of what happened in Israel and to think that they are doing it for that is Islamophobic.

Christianity is the state religion.

Other religions are free to practice here - but there is a reason why the Anglican Bishops sit in the House of Lords, why the Head of the Church of England (and C of Scotland) is also our Head of State.

We are very much not a multi-faith country.

In what way is this thread 'the worst kind of Islamophobia', specifically?
Also, what Pakistani Muslims living in Pakistan do isn't relevant here, because this is not Pakistan!