. . and replace it with this poster here?
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."
Have a billboard of that swine holding up a severed head.
Muslims who think theirs is the only way offend me more than strippers who do not threaten to kill me if I don't come to se them.
So what don't Muslims find offensive about 21st century living?
They can always take their religious views to a community that gives a crap. Islam is offended by everything not Islam. Islam does not rule the United States, so they can just take their murdering cult to a country that will allow them to run the place.
As a Christian I am offended by views of mosques. They should be removed at once.
What good Islamic radical murderer would dare want to see a poster of a bikini clad woman next to their mosque?
Far better to have a poster of a woman with her head sawed off and have blood squirting from her neck cavity.
I am offended that is-slime is even called a religion when to any sane person it is the highest form of pig devil worship.
I am offended that my government protects such scum and tells me that it is a religion of peace.
I am offended that we will be exposed to their insanity until they kill all of us or we kill all of them. I like the 2nd alternative.
Yeah, but Freepers wouldn't. Everyone has a double standard.
. . and replace it with this poster here?
quit evading the issue and tell us straight up what you think please. I have no time for wishy-washy unambiguous statements.
(ha ha)
Just put up a picture of a woman in a burkha getting whacked with a tree limb--nothing offensive about that.
lol!
Some of us would probably object to a mosque being called a house of worship. Islam comes much nearer to being an analog of the international communist movement.
Being about as far as one can get from being a mooselimb supporter I have to agree with them on this.
Decency should prevail.
Nope won't work I can still see her wrists........
>>>OK - take it down and replace with a Jimmy Dean Pure Pork Sausage billboard...<<<
I like that idea... pork - the other white meat...or, quoting TV chef Emeril, "Pork Fat Rules!!"
Just two separate divisions of Satan Corp stepping on each other's toes.
He would still be blowing himself up, but at least it would be a harmless "explosion". Al'halla-lu-la-la ackbar! Do that to me again, baby!
The mosque, right?
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