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| Underwear ads hurt Muslim sentiments in Bradford | |
| 2004-03-19 | |
Muslims in a British city are concerned over advertisements featuring women’s bottoms. ’Velvet’ toilet paper that urges consumers to ’love your bum’, and G-string and bikini bottom billboards have provoked an outcry in Bradford, home to thousands of Muslims originating from Mirpur in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. An independent body should regulate the content of advertisements to go on billboards, Bradford Council of Mosques President Sher Azam said in a statement. "It is not because they are near mosques and it is not just the Muslim community which is offended," Azam said. "They are degrading to women wherever they are located and it is sad in this day and age to find we have come so low. People should complain; they should not turn a blind eye." Azam’s statement follows damage caused to a billboard close to a Bradford mosque that featured G-strings on four women’s bottoms. Anonymous protestors have also slashed another billboard elsewhere in the city that advertises women’s underwear. The campaign against advertisements that offend family values started four years ago when angry Bradford residents slapped paint across a bra advertisement featuring tennis pinup star Anna Kournikova.
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| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #36 What happened to muck4doo and antiwar? Are they okay? I'm worried about them. They usually aren't this normal. They must be having some kind of break down. Just so the rest of us don't follow suit, I'll substitute for their posts this time--cosmic imbalance is nothing to mess with. "antiwar" says: These kinds of billboards do nothing to better relations with Moslems. When we offend them, they have no other choice than to resort to terrorism in order to maintain their sensibilities and traditions. We should immediately replace the current billboards, across all of England, with ones that apologize to the Moslem world, and then we should promise that we won't do it again. They will love us and stop organizing attacks. I'm just certain sure some of them will. Besides, it was probably Bush who incited the billboard ads in the first place. "muck4doo' says: thes billibirds try to enslave people to hurt moslems. boreds shud be taken down and birned Ah . . . I'm feeling better already. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-3-19 11:58:49 PM |
| #35 I'd stay off the buses in Bradford for awhile. At least until the seething dies down... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-3-19 11:19:22 PM |
| #34 First they came for adds selling womens undergarments and I did nothing because I don't wear womens undergaments. Then they came for the undergarments themselves, and I did nothing... What is that saying. If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll want a glass of milk. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2004-3-19 4:30:05 PM |
| #33 ....or I could just get my chick to go down there in her underpants and ask for some Velvet as well. Maybe Shep, Howard and I could make a plan. I have a plan! |
| Posted by: Rhodesiafever 2004-3-19 3:04:47 PM |
| #32 *(make a change from mashed potato,*sp, and white chicks, which is normal English fare). |
| Posted by: Rhodesiafever 2004-3-19 2:54:57 PM |
| #31 Heh, heh! Asians babes!! (UK magazine). I'm gonna buy it tomorrow, with a tin of Spam and some bacon at the local corner shop! |
| Posted by: Rhodesiafever 2004-3-19 2:51:04 PM |
| #30 How about replacing them with billboards of naked women eating porkrinds while watching Passion of the Christ? Kunta Kinte, huh? No speaka stupid. Try using english next time. |
| Posted by: AllahHateMe 2004-3-19 2:42:07 PM |
| #29 The best quote is that it's "degrading to women." Yep, those Muslims are definitely on the cutting edge of advancing women's rights. |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-3-19 2:40:51 PM |
| #28 Lightning is rippling on the horizon... I agree for this nanosecond with AntiEverWar. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-3-19 2:12:22 PM |
| #27 SH - I said solely about sex... meaning we thing about other things as well.... Didn't think about the gay aspect.... but I guess you would be right about that. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-3-19 12:47:53 PM |
| #26 Surely there are worse things to be offended by than some woman in her bra and knickers on a billboard? |
| Posted by: Antiwar 2004-3-19 12:47:44 PM |
| #25 I hope the leftists start getting the picture now. This is the beginning. Once these communities get large enough their demands will only escalate and will all be towards one end: imposing THEIR culture on US. Will we have the balls to stand up to them? In our PC-devastated societies, I'm having severe doubts. |
| Posted by: R. McLeod 2004-3-19 12:39:03 PM |
| #24 Abramov, What you dont realize is that some of us here in the west are sexually mature enough to be able to look at a woman's body without thinking solely of sex. it depend what she is look like. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-3-19 12:00:52 PM |
| #23 CF, are you referring to gay guys? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-3-19 11:58:56 AM |
| #22 Abramov, What you dont realize is that some of us here in the west are sexually mature enough to be able to look at a woman's body without thinking solely of sex. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-3-19 11:49:58 AM |
| #21 You write about Middle Age people from Asia! What can you expect from them? Your jewish corporate masters brought them to England for the chep labor but main thing is to destroy White Europeans. Europe was WHITE 1941. Now it is HOG WASH! Still those savages have more sane brains than you who watch Jews Tube aka electronic bolshevik aka TV. You luvvv Springer/stern/spielberg shows? |
| Posted by: Kunta Kinte 2004-3-19 11:47:35 AM |
| #20 How 'bout putting up some billboards advertising "Passion of the Christ?" They should like that. |
| Posted by: Bob 2004-3-19 11:47:30 AM |
| #19 Abramov/Boris/Piece of S**t -- Don't like looking at asses? That must be tough shaving without a mirror. |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-3-19 11:19:31 AM |
| #18 Since underwear ads offend those pooooor Muslims I propose we replace them by ads showing the girls without that offensive underwear. |
| Posted by: JFM 2004-3-19 11:14:15 AM |
| #17 if you do not like the culture of a country do not move to a non-muslim country, damn twits... Abramov -- who do you think you are...some 5th column element in israel.... no country should change to appease someone who immigrates there. it is a contradiction to move to a 21st century country and espouse 4th century mentality. i am sure the people of Britain do not want it and i know the people of the US do not it. just how do you know anything about .com's family? you fucking ingrate...bring some substance to a debate or stay in your shit hold (or spider hole -same thing) just stay where you are! freedom loving people do not need your racist, 4th century, woman beating, cousin in-breeding, goat abusing bastards here! |
| Posted by: Dan 2004-3-19 11:12:40 AM |
| #16 At least I've seen my mother Mahmood - 'cause she aint hidden under three layers of tarpaulin!! Bet you've never had a shag even. Poor twat Mahmood. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-3-19 11:10:27 AM |
| #15 LOL! Abramov(Israel) - yeah, right, Abdul! FOAD! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-19 11:04:11 AM |
| #14 Address the second point, prick. I bet you watched 9/11 with your dick in your hand . |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2004-3-19 11:03:34 AM |
| #13 In reply to first comment by some piece of shit, I would say that surely u dun mind seeing asses and boobs on the billboard, cause in ur home ur mom and ur sister walk around naked.....may be u have been banging them too....well nothing new, cause u dun know who ur father is...well i guess that makes u a bastard...yeah thats right...a Bastard |
| Posted by: Abramov(Israel) 2004-3-19 10:55:11 AM |
| #12 Cracking night out In Bradford, Shame we don't see of our Muslim freinds in our Pubs, Clubs |
| Posted by: Dany K (Batley, West Yorkshire) 2004-3-19 10:46:23 AM |
| #11 "home to thousands of Muslims originating from Mirpur in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir." Replace the billboards with ads for the BJP. |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-3-19 10:20:26 AM |
| #10 I can GUARANTEE that the billboard will be changed. Its just more of the same - They can steam roll our civilization and thats fine as long as WE don't OFFEND them in the process. |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2004-3-19 10:18:26 AM |
| #9 Of course they'll be accommodated - they'll be allowed to declare themselves a semi-autonomous region like NW Pakistan frontier soon. It's certainly hilly and cold enough. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-3-19 9:56:39 AM |
| #8 If they don't like it, they shouldn't buy the products. Unfortunately, the muslim world doesn't understand that process. About anything. Don't like democracy, anywhere, even in western countries? Destroy it. Don't like freedom of choice, anywhere? Eradicate it. And what's so friggin sad and funny about it is, after the dust settles, they would expect us to convert to Islam. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2004-3-19 9:55:51 AM |
| #7 Replace the offending billboards for ads for pork products -- bacon, ham, pickled pig's feet, Spam. That should make them feel better. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-3-19 9:36:30 AM |
| #6 A question for our UK brethren: What's the likely outcome? Will the officials in Bradford capitulate or accommodate them? Since they're prolly good little citizen voters... |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-19 9:30:11 AM |
| #5 seal bradford up with razor wire then sort the fanatics from the normall one,something tells me there wouldn't be many left there after,bradford,what a dump |
| Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-3-19 9:17:19 AM |
| #4 How about a fifty foot ad for Asian Babes? |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-3-19 9:10:44 AM |
| #3 OK, lets replace them with ads for Kotex and Condoms... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-3-19 9:09:47 AM |
| #2 Massive round of applause from me, .com |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-3-19 9:02:12 AM |
| #1 Go the fuck back to whatever 4th-world slime pit you crawled out of if you don't like a free open society. No one with a brain will mangle their laws to accommodate you. You probably don't mind piles of dead infidels or innocent Iraqis or Jooo children on a bus... but a titty or a bum and you lose your cookies. You. Are. Sick. Twisted. Fucktards. FOAD. Close you eyes to the billboards, just as you do to the truth of your gutless hypocrisy. Otherwise, have a nice day. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-19 8:44:58 AM |