Moi?
Posted on 11/29/2005 12:38:40 PM PST by LibWhacker
Users of a city mosque are angry after an advert for a "gentlemen's club" went up opposite their prayer room.
The picture of a scantily-clad woman has been plastered across a billboard in Conduit Street, Leicester, opposite the Central Mosque.
Muslims who worship there said they found it offensive.
Owners of the Aviary club said they had not received an official complaint but did not want to cause offence.
Gul Mohammed, who works at the mosque, said: "It's not the kind of thing you want to see when you are doing your prayers.
"Also, when people - men, women and children - leave the mosque they have to go past it. Whether it's a mosque, a church or a temple it's not what you want to see when you leave a place of prayer.
"It does not make sense putting something up like that. It would be good to have it removed.
"I'm sure there would be plenty of other places to put it."
Yahya Thadha, a member of the congregation, said they were angered more at the positioning of the poster rather than its content.
He said: "It's more the fact that people should be a bit more sensitive. We're upset rather than outraged.
"You can see it straight out of the window. We can understand they have a business to run, but our anger is more with the people who own the land who should have been a bit more sensitive."
He said he believed it was on council-owned property.
Spinney Hills ward councillor Hashim Panchbhaya said he supported the worshippers. He said: "I will take it up with the council and ask them to see what he can be done.
"The poster has caused a lot of offence to a community that has very high standards.
"It's not acceptable for people coming out of a mosque to see something like that. There's enough immorality in the world and to impose something like this on Muslims is totally unacceptable.
"There are sensitivities at stake and there are other places they can put it. To see a half-naked woman right outside the mosque is downgrading and not acceptable."
Aviary manager Paul Rodgers said the venue had received no complaints over the billboard.
"There are very strict rules about what we can do and the media company we use for advertising has gone through all the right channels," he said.
"We would never intend to cause anybody any discomfort. If we received an official complaint we would look into it.
"The last thing we want to do is cause anybody any offence."
As I stated in another thread.....at a University Library....an employee told a student to get rid of his gum...because it was rude to eat something when the Muslims were fasting....
I suppose you have the same option they do. Take it up with the council. :-)
The biggest zoning fuss around here is an exceedingly large church wants to build a second parking lot. The surrounding neighbors don't want it and would prefer the church move. The Baptists got plenty of press and so did the neighbors, but I haven't heard much about a solution.
One of the officers looked out the window she pointed to, but couldn't see anything. She responded, "Well, if you climb up on this ladder and lean all the way over to the left, you can see right into his window."
I think I like your idea. :)
They must have thought they were advertising to their market.
WOW-----barbaric.
The funny thing is they would've been REALLY mad had it been a poster of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet!
Well then, move your mosque - like to Saudi Arabia or some other God-forsaken cesspool like that.
British women are attractive - that's why they don't wrap up in burquas. But then they don't have to bear lots of kids, and do menial servile labor for a polygamist who worships a moon god.
DUH! If you don't like what is posted on the board, take up a collection, rent the damn board and post whatever your want!
I just saw your reply - hee hee. I was thinking along the same lines.
I don't know about y'all - but if I look up from saying my prayers and there's a scantily clad woman in my room...
Moi?
Yeah but... Where are such billboards allowed in Saudi Arabia, for instance? Probably no where. It's a matter of creeping islamism: First it's offensive to the "congregation" (what a joke to refer to a bunch of these cutthroats as a congregation!) if the billboard is near a mosque. Then it's offensive if it's within eyesight of any muslim. Then it's offensive if it's anywhere in the country -- even if muslims can't see it. Then it's offensive if an infidel walks on muslim ground with his filthy feet.
"Why but up signage like that within view of any house of worship?
They must have thought they were advertising to their market."
Maybe both sides would benefit if the club advertised "72 virgins."
Well, then, how about replacing the billboard with one showing a good ol' bloody beheading, complete with supporting verses from the koran?
"Why but up signage like that within view of any house of worship?"
A mosque is not exactly a house of worship. More like the Devil's workshop...
No pictures of the offending billboard, but....
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