Posted on 05/07/2008 12:51:32 PM PDT by forkinsocket
A COUNCILLOR today called for more control over advertising posters in "culturally sensitive" areas of Birmingham.
Coun Talib Hussain made his plea after a billboard on the corner of Sydenham Road and Golden Hillock Road, in predominantly Muslim Sparkbrook, was defaced.
The hoarding, close to mosques in Anderton Road and Golden Hillock Road and visible to parents and children walking to Montgomery Primary School, promotes Matalan's new swimwear range and features three scantily-clad models.
The models have been covered in thick white paint to conceal bare flesh.
Coun Talib Hussain (Ind, Sparkbrook) criticised the vandalism but said it was a result of the lack of action from city council bosses. He said: "I condemn the people that did this but at the same time it's wrong for companies to put that kind of advert in sensitive wards.
"I have received complaints on a number of occasions not to put adverts like that in Sparkbrook. "The city council should not give permission to advertising like that in these wards. "Having families seeing naked pictures does not bring the community together, it provokes things."
The vandalism is similar to a spate of attacks in 2005 and 2006 by a group called Muslims Against Advertising.
A Birmingham City Council spokesman, said: "Our only power is to approve where advertising can take place, but not what is put on it. "That is between the Advertising Standards Agency and the firm itself."
The ASA said the content of billboard adverts was controlled by billboard owner and the advertiser, and that the agency only had "responsive" powers.
"If we receive complaints we will consider if an advert should be removed."
No-one was immediately available for comment from Matalan.
stone-age idiots
Arrest the vandals and make them pay to have the billboard ad restored.
Bollocks! Have them go back to their jihadistans!
Put up a nice billboard celebrating Israel’s 60th anniversary.
Muslims “outraged”? Isn’t that their native state.
Whiny, self-serving, holier-than-thou idiots.
They’re not “naked pictures”. Honestly, Muslims need to get over this unbelievable obsession they have with genetalia.
He said: “I condemn the people that did this but at the same time it’s wrong for companies to put that kind of advert in sensitive wards.
Only problem is that in 30 years, your whole country is going to be a “sensitive ward”.
How are the Aussies dealing with them now?
I thind the’re upset with that little “camel toe” on the far right
I saw a Travel Channel show recently about Sicily and they had gathered all the ancient statues in one plaza that the Moors had knocked the penises off. Must be an old habit for them.
An outraged muslim?
I find this very difficult to believe.
They would have loved posters showing naked teenage boys’ rearends or shaved goats.
It's a pre-Islamic cultural thing that Islam successfully turned into a group neurosis after it was invented in the 7th century. It may be based in penis envy....maybe devout Muslim men tend to have tiny ones. Maybe that's why they all pose with their big guns (used strictly for purposes of peace and intercultural harmony, of course) held prominently in an erect position.
That reminds me of a billboard on Turner Turnpike between OKC and Tulsa, about 35 years ago. A beautiful girl in a bikini advertising Sheridan Inn.
Eyes dialated, heart raced, other things happened. Wow!
Then in 1976, when I was coming back from New Mexico, I looked in anticipation for the sign! There it was! Someone had painted a black one piece suit on her. Bummer.
Artist: Reeves Del
Song: The Girl On The Billboard Del Reeves Sheet Music
Del Reeves CDs
The Girl on the Billboard
(as recorded by Del Reeves)
Key: D
D D
Doo da doo doo doo A doo da doo doo doo
D
Who is the girl wearing nothing but a smile
D
and a towel in the picture on the billboard
D A7 D
in the field near the big old highway?
A7
Rolling down the highway in my Jimmy hauling freight
A7 D
from Chicago to St. Louis Lord I see her every day
D
A double clutching weasel like me can hardly ever
D7 G
get a girl to look at him that way
G D
Smiling like the girl wearing nothing but a smile
D
and a towel in the picture on the billboard
A7 D
in the field near the big old highway
I noticed that and thought to myself, they aribrushed it into a fabric wrinkle.
Not guilty.
Do I have to get over MY unbelievable obsession?
As long as you’re not outraged by a gorgeous woman in a bikini...probably not.
A serious smack-down is in order.
A COUNCILLOR today called for more control over advertising posters in “culturally sensitive” areas of Birmingham.
Coun Talib Hussain made his plea after a billboard on the corner of Sydenham Road and Golden Hillock Road, in predominantly Muslim Sparkbrook, was defaced.
The hoarding, close to mosques in Anderton Road and Golden Hillock Road and visible to parents and children walking to Montgomery Primary School, promotes Matalan’s new swimwear range and features three scantily-clad models.
The models have been covered in thick white paint to conceal bare flesh.
Coun Talib Hussain (Ind, Sparkbrook) criticised the vandalism but said it was a result of the lack of action from city council bosses. He said: “I condemn the people that did this but at the same time it’s wrong for companies to put that kind of advert in sensitive wards.
Well sir if you do not want to be around things that occur in a free society then I suggest you should never have left whichever 7th century country you came from.
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