It's all bout Allah when it comes to declaring Texas' trust in God.
That's what a Florida activist is planning to convey by helping Texans comply with a new state law requiring public schools to display donated signs stating, "In God We Trust."
"The law seemingly presumes these signs are written in English," Florida activist Chaz Stevens wrote on a fund-raising appeal seeking shipping costs. "Oopsie."
The Florida man plans to "flip bureaucracy 180 degrees and use its weight against itself" by papering Texas with Arabic-language posters bearing the motto.
A Florida activist is planning to help Texans comply with a new state law requiring public schools to display donated signs stating, "In God We Trust." (GoFundMe.com/)
"We're going to donate hundreds of Arabic-language 'In God We Trust' posters to schools in Texas, flooding the public school system with our Arabic IGWT artwork," he wrote. "Don't fight the man; let the man fight himself."
Initially he planned to donate just Arabic signs, but then realized that other languages would also be useful.
"Future artwork will not only include Arabic, but also Hindu, Spanish, Chinese, and perhaps African dialects," Stevens told CNN.
The law, Senate Bill 797, was passed last year and requires schools to display such signage if it is donated or "purchased with private donations," as The Texas Tribune reported.
While not overtly Christian, it is another attempt by Republican lawmakers to infuse taxpayer-funded institutions with Christian-based ideology, as The Texas Tribune reported.
The law was written by state Sen. Bryan Hughes, the same man who penned the abortion-restriction bill that brought the public in as enforcement by offering financial incentives for people to rat out their neighbors.
"These posters demonstrate the more casual ways a state can impose religion on the public," Sophie Ellman-Golan of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice told the Guardian after the law went into effect last week. "Alone, they're a basic violation of the separation of church and state. But in the broader context, it's hard not to see them as part of the larger Christian nationalist project."