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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agreed... they are useless causing mayhem and social disorder.
Dp you think are aware enough to use the name of their sexual preference?
M A A
M A A
Sounds like sheep to me.
Pardon? Care to further extrapolate on your psychoanalysis?
Are Christians free to speak out in Muslim countries?
Actually, in your typical Moslem country even Moslems aren't allowed to speak out. I thought "W" got that clear with you the other day in his speech. Guess you didn't listen.
Go get 'em boys.
Here's the Birmingham "scorecard" from their page (for your information and enjoyment, I've "improved" the Gossards link to go where it belongs).
I wonder how a satanic god, who bribes assassins with virgins, would view the following infidel-improved link:
The Birmingham Index Index Improved intact a women's magazine 1 0 Ellesse 1 0 McCool 6 3 Heart.FM 2 1 PaddyPower 3 1 All Sports 2 0 Strip club 0 3 Levis Jeans 9 0 Opium 7 0 Wonder-bra 10 0 Hallelujah! 50+ 0 Gossards Banned Banned Tell us about a poster that has been improved Submit a billboard advert for MAAD to improve This table keeps score of how many posters have been improved and how many remain intact; it is at least 15 mins delayed
http://www.thehun.com [be warned: it's the real stuff!]
And after they are done with that, they'll come for your daughter's clitoris.
Great -- we'll just rely on the subjective ex-post opinion of an ancient SCOTUS Justice. There's a clear definition for all of us ... and that's the BEST definition you can find?
Game, set, match to Happygal.
PaddyPower?
That's an Irish betting group.
Paddy Power gives GREAT odds btw! :-)
If Paddy is reading this...DO NOT REPOSSESS MY HOUSE!!! *LOL* (For the comedy-impaired, that's a joke, btw)
Bad analogy.
Billboards are not allowed in residential neighborhoods.
If someone has a smutty billboard right across from their "house" I bet they don't have a house at all rather some kind of industrail living arrangement. Usually no schools in those areas either.
Perhaps they are sacfrificing for a little while in order to move up and have to tough it out for a while instead of controlling others which is not the American way.
So you only support Muslims when they act like Nazis? Great. They'll start with dirty books in dirty stores and then burn down Borders, B Dalton and Waldenbooks because they have offensive material in their too.
Frankly, your expressed support of arson and book-burning is a lot more obscene than a dirty book IMHO.
Then why in the world should we follow what they want?
They are not for freedom.
Looks like muawiyah has ceded victory!
There are such billboards ~ and for purposes of this thread we need not be concerned with your hypothetical condition.
So, get back on track ~
Probably gone to figure out how to save my soul.
I'm quite the enigma.
Bikini/wonderbra wearing Irish gambling well-travelled Muslim country visiting woman who dresses well for all occasions, but still appreciates Maxim and FHM magazine broads, who can strut their stuff before it sags (and it does! *LOL* Believe me..it does! *LOL*)
What you said.
Why don't they "pass on their way to prayers" in Pakistan, Syria, or some other ME sh*thole, instead of trying to change Western countries?
Your desires for free porn aren't really the most important thing in the world to me, and if it sets you up for a one-way trip to Hell, that's just the way it will have to be. You can comfort yourself with the thought that you will not be lonely.
Then we should not be concerned with any of your hypothetical postulations either.
I can't believe you so easily dismiss a valid point that invalidates your position.
But it appears that is what you advocate. Banning anything you don't agree with.
You have no right to talk about freedom as you are not for it.
Your analogy was fatally flawed, I caught you and you simply say "WE" need not be concerned with information that makes your arguemnt irrelevant.
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