The horror. The absolute horror.
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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A very gracious (and completely non-flirtatious) thank you, and oiche mhaith (that's gaelic for g'nite).
*LOL*
This place is great fun of a Friday night, all the same *L*
Opium advert reeks of exploitation
... How the new lads will swoon to hear that a woman's best moments are to be found wearing nothing but perfume and six inch gold stilettos, spreadeagled in classic porn star pose, squeezing her breasts in invitation.
The Opium advert is simply another example of a multinational industry using a male fantasy of women's sexuality to sell its product.
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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
per you:
but the issue is whether or not nekkid wimmin pictures are suitible for use in commercial billboards.
Please show me where the article said “nekkid women.”
My point – they are imposing their standards of unacceptability which is considerably short of pornography. Pornography is already banned in Billboards.
It really doesn't matter if the protagonists in this case are Moslems or Jehovah's Witnesses.
Also I don't see Jehovah's Witness tearing down anything or any violence for that matter.
Here there's an implication that you will find sexual satisfaction"
Scantily dressed men and women in ads draw attention to the ads.
Didn't click your link.
But I only need to smell opium to know it sucks. It's a horrible scent.
I wasn't aware those were posted publically. Interesting.
they didn't like the poster in the shop windows.
< don't click if you are easily offended >
http://ad-rag.com/179.php
the Nazis thought the jewish books were more perverse and evil than pornography and the judges agreed with them.
I would rather not burn books.
not to mention the equivocaton of these islamists, to Nazarene Christians...
There is also a substantial difference between "banning" porn and the unlawful destruction of private property, as represented by the billboards and advertisements being destroyed.
I wonder if you recognize the difference?
What, they don't want me posting in the nude now?
Sorry I don't think you can blame the spread of AIDS on scantily clad Women.
once-great Britain
January 22 2005
Hostily-colonizing and sovereignty-subverting Muslim groups target poster nudity - By Nicola Woolcock
Effective terrorists are getting bolder in a campaign of vandalising adverts that display pictures of unclothed Human Beings
BILLBOARD adverts featuring partial nudity are being vandalized by muslims who effect being offended by facimiles of displays of flesh.
The advertising watchdog has confirmed that increasing numbers of posters are being torn down or painted over in "predominantly-islamic areas." [AKA: Colonies!]
A website giving advice on how to vandalise the private property of others [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 appeasers at 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 destruction-of-private-property-inciting 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’ve vadalized.”
Advice on how to attack posters is also given: “The procedures outlined here are based on our six months’ terroristic experience of executing poster attacks professionally, safely and without injury or arrest.
“A paint roller, a blithe spirit and a balmy night are all you really need.
“After choosing your board, be sure to inspect it both during the day and at night. Take note of all activities in the area. Who is about at 2am? How visible will you be?
“Bring a camera — it’s a good cover for doing anything you’re not supposed to. Check your escape routes.
“For work on larger boards we recommend walkie-talkies . . . the ground crew should monitor oncoming traffic and maintain radio contact with the lookout on the board.”
The ASA told Triumph to remove its advert for Sloggi thongs from a billboard near a mosque in Bury, after complaints and a petition.
One Muslim reportedly complained that it made his wife and daughters look so bloody ugly by comparison he and their brothers considered them “insulting” and to constitute “environmental pollution” -- and so had to honor kill them.
An advert for hair dye, which showed a woman peering into her bikini bottoms, was painted over by terroristic vandals in Luton. A spokesman said the poster would be “extremely offensive” to a Muslim man if he passed it on his way to a few bevvies and a stray bonk at the local.
Another Luton billboard for Marks & Spencer, showing the back of a naked woman, was also defaced.
And a poster in Bradford, featuring the tennis player Anna Kournikova modelling a sports bra, was covered with bodily fluids.
An "advertising 'standards' authority" spokesman said: “There does seem to be more criminal activity.
These acts of terroristic vandalism are criminal offences and private property is being defaced . . . it happens in a lot of "muslim areas" [Colonies] such as Luton, Bradford, Glasgow and Birmingham.
“We encourage terroristic-vandals to contact us and make their complaints known, then we can go through the proper channels in getting an advert taken down if it’s "offensive."
“One area we’re concerned about is causing "religious offence" — the use of religious imagery and also being sensitive to location. If something is offensive in a particular area then the company will normally take it down.
“We’re getting more and more complaints about the inappropriate location of adverts, outside schools or other places of terroristic indoctrination.”
A spokesman for the muslim council of Britain said the ASA’s code of practice made it clear that companies should be sensitive to the location of certain adverts.
He said: “We don’t condone posters being defaced and would always encourage wannabe terroristic vandals to raise their concerns with the asa, so that it is made aware of the strength of feeling. Defacing adverts is hooliganism.”
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: “Defacing a poster is a criminal offence but would be dealt with by us only if someone was caught in the act.”
ADVERTS ATTRACT NAKED DISLIKE
PlayStation 2 computer game, America’s 10 Most Wanted, showed a photo of Osama bin Laden next to the words “Go Get ‘Em”
Elida Faberge hair dye pictured a woman looking inside her bikini bottoms and the words: “Keeps hair colour so long you’ll forget your natural one”
Lastminute.com advert showed a photo of a woman’s breasts sprinkled with sand as she lay in dunes and the words “enjoy every lastminute.com”. Complaint upheld this week by asa. [ASS?]
Vodka poster depicting a semi-naked woman was sited near a Bolton mosque. Muslim leaders said the siting was “insensitive”
Publicity posters for the BBC television programme Babyfather, which showed four naked men standing under a shower with their backs to the camera, were daubed with red paint
[This piece "Touched up" by an editor [Terroristic-vandal?] offended by the original -- B A]
Along with every other right, Muslim women are denied the right to be offended, so it's all about Muslim men...as usual.
Isn't that special. One hopes France is paying attention to Muslim whacko hijinks in Britain because it's just a hop and a skip across the channel to the Louvre and France's national identity. (This was foretold a few months back by a Frenchman's editorial posted here on FR.) The slippery slope is in place, and soon those with means will pull up stakes and leave.
The horror. The absolute horror.
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