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November 28, 2005
UK: Sensitive Muslims Complaining Again
Once again, Britain's Muslims are proclaiming to the country that what is acceptable for the majority of the population is not acceptable to them, and are expecting something to be changed. Again.
This time, the offending item is not a picture of Winnie the Pooh and Piglet, nor the design of an ice-cream cone wrapper, but a poster of a scantily-clad woman, which infringes no Advertising Standards guidelines. But it is facing their mosque, states the Leicester Mercury
The poster advertises the Aviary, a "gentleman's club" which is nearby. The Central Mosque in Conduit Street is going to the newspaper to protest, but so far have not approached the owners of the club to make comments. The Aviary owners said they did not want to cause offense.
Worshippers are upset, and a mosque worker, Gul Mohammad, says "It's not the kind of thing you want to see when you are doing your prayers," even though Muslim prayers involve kneeling down in a mosque and not looking at walls outside the building.
"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."
Yes, like up your a- sorry. The local council have become involved, with Spinney Hills ward councillor Hashim Panchbhaya (a Muslim?) saying "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."
The reactions of the readers show more sense than the members of the mosque: Claire, of Leicester writes:
I find it difficult to comprehend that Muslims are attempting to inflict their values and beliefs on the whole community, where have the co-operative and cosmopolitan ideals of a multi-cultural Leicester gone?There is plenty that I could say, but I will wait for comments from our readers before I engage in a long diatribe. What is the point? Sayings like "When in Rome do as the Romans do" mean nothing to these people.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at November 28, 2005 11:41 AM
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