Let them get away with this, they'll move on to the next level. Pretty soon they're censoring anything they don't like with any tactic they wish to use...
Posted on 01/21/2005 5:08:41 PM PST by quidnunc
Billboard adverts featuring partial nudity are being defaced by Muslim activists who are offended by displays of flesh.
The advertising watchdog has confirmed that increasing numbers of posters are being torn down or painted over in predominantly Islamic areas.
A website giving advice on how to vandalise billboards and listing potential targets has been set up by a group calling themselves Muslims Against Advertising (MAAD).
The campaign has gathered momentum since the Advertising Standards Authority banned an underwear advert from being sited near mosques.
Advertisements for perfume, hair dye, bras and television programmes are among those that have been attacked. Photographs of semi-dressed women are the most frequently targeted, with the offending body parts painted over or ripped off.
A poster advertising the Channel 4 programme Desperate Housewives is the most recent target; the images of two scantily-clad actresses have been torn from an East London billboard but three fully-dressed characters were left intact. Adverts bearing Dove’s “Real Women” adverts — six ordinary women pictured in their underwear — were painted over at several locations last year.
MAAD, based in Birmingham, gives an index of defaced adverts in the city, including Levi’s, Wonderbra, PaddyPower, a radio station and a strip club. It says on its website that it believes in “direct action” and “has paint and isn’t afraid to use it”, adding: “There is no longer any need to cringe as you walk past a sleazy poster, we’ll improve it.”
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Let them get away with this, they'll move on to the next level. Pretty soon they're censoring anything they don't like with any tactic they wish to use...
I'll never understand why these people move to other countries and act this way. I've read of stories where women tourists get harassed for having short sleeves.
Remind me again how many nudie mags Atta & Co. bought before boarding the planes.
Virgin Air Cargo runs the best ads in the world. Women in lingerie straddling cargo. Of course, they run these in trade publications with a largely male readership.
Isn't the presence of Muslims a great thing??? ...and they really target the LIBERAL, SOCIALIST governments for immigration, then they use the liberal leverage to attempt to change the rules ...just look at France too. They have much more than just a simple problem to deal with...but Chirac deserves everything he gets, PLUS.
For once, I sympathize with the Muslims. Now if they would just start burning down adult bookstores ...
Does this mean we should cowtow to the offended...as long as they're in the PC right?
It must really s#ck to be British...right now..
Lots of folks in America adhere to religious dress-codes and find these displays as obnoxious as do the Moslems.
In this age of AIDS and other deadly STDs, it may be that we will all have to join these folks in banning these needless displays.
ROFLOL!
I wonder if it would be offensive if he was walking by and not on his way to prayers... ??
Let's send them Teddy "The Porker" Kennedy and Hillary "The Beast" Clinton for an appeasement tribute!
Free speech means that the other fellow is entitled to it as well as you.
It is only a small step from banning racy billboards to banning all criticism of religion — even when that religion advocates the destruction of America's way of life.
If anyone can find a image of the offensive ads, please post.
Not really ~ there's a substantial difference between banning religious speech and banning pornography, even light porn.
MAA Doesn't have the ring to it that MAAD does I suppose. MAA sounds a bit childish and whiney. Maa, They have nudey billboards...WAAAAHH!!!
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