Does this mean that Muslims aren't a good target market for Benny Hill reruns?
Posted on 01/23/2005 1:29:06 PM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John
British Muslim activists have stepped up a campaign to deface or rip down advertising billboards featuring scantily-clad women in communities with large numbers of Muslims, the media reported.
Sky television news reported from the English city of Birmingham on Saturday that the campaign has achieved some of its goals as there were now few such billboards close to mosques.
The Advertising Standards Authority said that increasing numbers of posters were being torn down or painted over in predominantly Islamic areas, the Times newspaper reported.
Ads for perfume, hair dye, bras and television programmes are among those that have been attacked, it said. Photographs of semi-dressed women are the most frequently targeted, with the offending body parts painted over or ripped off.
A poster advertising a television programme called "Desperate Housewives" is the most recent target. The images of two scantily-clad actresses were torn from an east London billboard but three fully-dressed characters were left intact.
They need to setup a more very offensive billboards and wait with snipers.
Coming soon to a billboard near you.
Yet these same Muslims will booze up, buy hookers, and plot flights into NYC skyscrapers.....waddabunchainfidels.
Muslims rip down billboards that are offensive to them
A significant difference. But, since everything that doesn't have the word 'mohammed' in it offends them, there's no news here.
Where's the aclu??huh??
Agreed!!! But to prevent duplicate postings, I stuck with the original..
Well I Know...it's the bclu over there!
How about a billboard showing a beheading? Would THAT be offensive? I think NOT! Sex - bad; murder - good.
Does this mean that Muslims aren't a good target market for Benny Hill reruns?
I would further like to know what the Brits are gonna do about this.....when is "enough" enough
Hopefully this will be a wake up call for all those Brits that have found the war on terrorism offensive. It is coming to their soil.....maybe Laura Bush is getting more appealing.....
Not true.
Some other Satanic moon-cult would fill the vaccuum.
You did the right thing. My comment was directed at the original headline writer. She made the same type of error that gets made almost every day when reporters speak of 'the holy city of Karbala' or 'the holy city of Mecca'. Those cities are only holy in the eyes of muslims. 'Holiness' isn't an objective property of those cities, just as 'offensiveness' isn't an objective property of the U.K. billboards.
It's all a front for Islamoenvirofacists....with the ultimate goal to eliminate all billboards. Big billboards should be nervous.....
And will the New York Times run this story???
Put up a billboard with a upper class brit peeing on a mosque.
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