billboards defaced

[not really ken]

This has been reported on a number of UK news agencies

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1210442,00050003.htm

Muslims rip down offensive billboards in UK

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.

 

[The.Menace]

I don't understand the world these days........

 

[Hurts]

ken do u hate muslims?

 

[not really ken]

Yes, I hate myself

I don't understand the world these days........

Exapnd!! Im assuming you don't underatand the world today in relation to the actions of the people in the article.

 

[Hurts]

Yes, I hate myself

so ur muslim..than why make a thread called those damn muslims again?....

are you trying to influence shit and get into a discussion so u cant get lots of attention?

 

[not really ken]

so ur muslim..than why make a thread called those damn muslims again?....

are you trying to influence shit and get into a discussion so u cant get lots of attention?

The thread name is just a tongue in cheek joke, jeez, I didn't think ti would be this contreversial.

Intelligent people will not be so easily influenced by a thread name. UK people will most liekly have heard of this news from varying news sources so im not presenting a biased article, besides thats the first one I could find and its from the hindutimes.
Am I trying to get into a discussion? Yes
Attention? whats that got to do with it

 

[The Almighty Nasquad]

They have a point. Those billboards are offensive and wrong. But, instead of tearing them down, and destroying them, they should have made a complaint, or got the media on it to cover this so the companies that adverstise it, take it down.

 

[not really ken]

They have a point. Those billboards are offensive and wrong. But, instead of tearing them down, and destroying them, they should have made a complaint, or got the media on it to cover this so the companies that adverstise it, take it down.

But don't you think this method has been effective. Many agencies have reported that advertising companies are thinking twice about putting lewd posters where they have been defaced. and its non-violent aswell. Though it may come under vandalism, the end may justify the means in this case. and a noble end it is.

I find these billboards disgusting, say if im walking with my mom or my sister or kids, i wouldnt want them unwillingly exposed to this.

 

[Flipmo]

Good, that show is fucking stupid. lol

 

[Hurts]

The thread name is just a tongue in cheek joke, jeez, I didn't think ti would be this contreversial.

Intelligent people will not be so easily influenced by a thread name. UK people will most liekly have heard of this news from varying news sources so im not presenting a biased article, besides thats the first one I could find and its from the hindutimes.
Am I trying to get into a discussion? Yes
Attention? whats that got to do with it

Nah i was just askin...im not saying ur an attention seeking whore...im not even thinkin it...

I was gonna reply to sum things u said in this post but i dont want to...

 

[VIOLENT]

It seems to have worked which is good, im sure quite a few people would agree with them. So as a whole good looking.

 

[CalcuoCuchicheo]

Nah, I don't think they've got the right to do that.

By all means believe in what you want to believe in, but if they have a problem with this stuff they need to take that up with the local authorities.

As it is, British (note that I say British & not Christian) culture embraces scandily clad women on billboards so if you don't like, complain, stfu, or move.

Also, although I'm not a fan of big business, surely somebody's out of pocket here?

Vandalism is vandalism, if I spray paint a building of spiritual significance because I don't believe in that particular religion then not only would I be in the worng but I'd be in major shit.

 

[The.Menace]

Exapnd!! Im assuming you don't underatand the world today in relation to the actions of the people in the article.

I don't know why some skin seems to scare people as much.

 

[not really ken]

Nah, I don't think they've got the right to do that.

It is the society of the people who live there. The people get to decide how to run there own society

By all means believe in what you want to believe in, but if they have a problem with this stuff they need to take that up with the local authorities.

Local authorities have okayed this, and complaining to them is an avenue which ahas been vigorously excercised.

As it is, British (note that I say British & not Christian) culture embraces scandily clad women on billboards so if you don't like, complain, stfu, or move.

This is laughable, does british women embrace scantily clad women. Not only is this an incorrect assmuption but screams inequity between men and women. British culture doesnt 'embrace' it per se, it is common but not something which is conditional to be a bristish citizen. but im sure that they don't let children be exposed to it. Hence the 9 o,clock watershed. There are many people in british culture who find scantily dressed women unneccessary, and thats not counting the women

Also, although I'm not a fan of big business, surely somebody's out of pocket here?

Vandalism is vandalism, if I spray paint a building of spiritual significance because I don't believe in that particular religion then not only would I be in the worng but I'd be in major shit.

This has got nothing to do with culture or religion, it is simply the disobedience against something which many people find offensive becasue of the lewdness and the depiction of women as sex objects. If big business doesn't want to be out of pocket, then advertise without enforcing notions of women being sex objects and other lewd overtones.

 

[not really ken]

I don't know why some skin seems to scare people as much.

It is not just some skin, but depiction of women as sex objects. Also people should have the choice to see this kind of thing in public. JUst like we have a choice to watch a porn film. We should have 'freedom' from being forced to look at scantily dressed women.

 

[CalcuoCuchicheo]

This is laughable, does british women embrace scantily clad women. Not only is this an incorrect assmuption but screams inequity between men and women. British culture doesnt 'embrace' it per se, it is common but not something which is conditional to be a bristish citizen. but im sure that they don't let children be exposed to it. Hence the 9 o,clock watershed. There are many people in british culture who find scantily dressed women unneccessary, and thats not counting the women

British women may not like it (& there are some who are vocal about this), but I think you'll find the majority accept it & that's that.

As for 'inequality', where the fuck do you live, of course it's going to scream inequality that's because inequality between men & women still exists.

I know for a British citizen it isn't compulsary to like seeing scantily clad women but as this incident took place in Britain I though I would refer to British culture which, btw, doesn't have a problem with this.

'This has nothing to do with culture or religion', wtf? Am I not right in saying the reason Muslims are doing this shit is because they don't belief in women bearing all that flesh? Is that not something that they've used in their lives in Britain which is actually a belief held in certain foreign cultures? And British culture has everything to do with it also because it is that culture that determines what is acceptable in Britain.

Also, big business are commiting no crime portraying women in the way they do(note I didn't say 'sex objects' because that's open to interpretation), the people who are doing this shit however, are commiting a crime.

 

[AnarchistFunk]

100% justification

 

[Sebastian]

so this is an area where the majority of people are muslims? and there were billboards portraying "half-naked women"?
ok then i have to say that first of all the poeple who ripped the billboards down didnt have the right to do so! the billboards are not aginst any law and so u dont have the right to handle the problem on your own by ripping them off. it simply doesnt work that way.
BUT if its well-known that this area is populated mostly by muslims then the company (or whoever put the billboards up) should have thought about this left the place how it was. without the billboards..

 

[CalcuoCuchicheo]

so this is an area where the majority of people are muslims? and there were billboards portraying "half-naked women"?
ok then i have to say that first of all the poeple who ripped the billboards down didnt have the right to do so! the billboards are not aginst any law and so u dont have the right to handle the problem on your own by ripping them off. it simply doesnt work that way.
BUT if its well-known that this area is populated mostly by muslims then the company (or whoever put the billboards up) should have thought about this left the place how it was. without the billboards..

I agree with what you're saying that it's not right because it's illegal & also that more consideration should have been put into deciding where these adverts go.

Although, not to embroil you in a dispute that has nothing to with you but, seeing as you mentioned Muslims there (just as the original post did) I'm thinking that you also think that religion is a factor here, no?
Just asking to see if I'm being stupid when I think that ken has overlooked a major factor here.

 

[not really ken]

^^ the thing is that only any lewd images were deface or torn down. Where there were two women, one scantily dressed and the other dressed,the non the scantily dressed women was defaced. Defacing was done immediately because of the nature of images. Complaints are also sent to authorities in large numbers. There is a website set up to handle these complaints and they are forwarded to authorites via this website
There's a billboard near me which is on the ground next to a person.And I myself wrote many letters to authorities when they put up a side shot of a completely naked women. When I am in a postion that I can't prevent my nephew from looking at that then I will take action to deface it first to and then complain. below is the billboard

http://www.asa.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/81D0D2BD-8BB7-458C-9B87-29CAF3999CC0/117/YSL.bmp