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January 24, 2005
Going MAAD
Encouraging evidence of the smooth assimilation of the flood of Muslim immigrants pouring into Europe comes from Britain, where the aptly named group MAAD (Muslims Against Advertising) has taken upon itself the duty of destroying public advertisements that are inconsistent with Islamic cultural mores.
As reported by AFP, billboards featuring immodestly dressed women have fallen victim to the campaign in areas with a large Muslim population. Offending body parts are either painted over or torn off. Ads for perfume, hair dye, bras and the television show "Desperate Housewives" have been defaced.
MAAD's website (currently unavailable because it has exceeded its allocated data transfer) reportedly gives advice on how to vandalize billboards and lists potential targets, as well as indexing defaced ads in Birmingham, where the group is based.
While vandalism is never to be encouraged, at least they aren't flying planes into the billboards, or hunting down the advertisers and slitting their throats.
Posted by Van Helsing at January 24, 2005 7:25 AM
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"at least they aren't flying planes into the billboards, or hunting down the advertisers and slitting their throats."
Well, not YET. For now, they're saving that for NJ, USA.
Posted by: Ranten.N.Raven at January 24, 2005 8:49 AM
I live in Birmingham, England. The city's population is around half white, half black. We have mosques, synagogues, cathedrals. We have the biggest ethnic population outside London. Yet there is very little friction between any of the ethnic groups in Birmingham.
Have you seen the rest of Birmingham? Apart from the very centre, it's a shit hole. Painting and tearing off a few bits of billboards really doesn't matter in the great scheme of things.
Posted by: mark at January 24, 2005 2:51 PM
hi
This Painter mo, billboard impresario, paint roller wonder of birmingham and founder of Muslim Against advertising...
you guys do realise the website is a joke don't you?
I can't believe all these news people ran a story about us based on a dodgy geocities website with broken links all over the place, run by a bunch of supposed outraged muslims who link to websites such as the "interdimensional pixie broadcast network". They could at least have emailed me first, I would have told them it's a hoax.
never mind, people aren't used to Muslim satire yet.
take it easy,
Painter mo
Posted by: painter mo at January 26, 2005 7:20 AM
