The omnipresence of posters tipping prominent Islamic preacher Hazem Salah Abu Ismail for president has prompted users of social networking websites to share images mocking the candidate’s posters.
Abu Ismail’s stickers, which have become vivid at public avenues, main and side roads, and even on automobiles, defy a ban imposed by the Presidential Elections Commission on campaigning before the start of the official period slated for 30 April.
The online activists shared photoshopped images of Abu Ismail’s posters being put up in unreasonable spots in a bid to voice rejection of his campaign’s violations.
One image showed Abu Ismail’s posters hung around Jesus’ apostles in Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic painting of the Last Supper.
Another one showed the poster on a flag set up by an astronaut on the moon.
One image showed US President Barack Obama complaining to Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a White House meeting that Abu Ismail’s supporters put his poster on his own car.
A photoshopped image of former Vice President Omar Suleiman delivering the resignation speech on behalf of toppled President Hosni Mubarak showed an Abu Ismail poster being hoisted by a military official standing behind Suleiman.
But the activists also shared authentic photos, which show Abu Ismail’s posters placed adjacently in an extended line along a street wall. “Abu Ismail’s Posters Street,” the photo caption reads.
Translated from Al-Masry Al-Youm
