Religious Advertising On London Buses

[agchristie]

Should there be rules on religious themes?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/668398/Praise-Allah-bus-slogans-get-green-light-just-months-after-Lord-s-Prayer-ad-gets-banned

[Hypognosis]

@AOG

Drollness aside, the cinema audience is captive in the sense that they've paid their entrance fee but they have not been delivered the goods at the time when the religious advert is played to them. They will be in no hurry to leave.


@agchristie

Good to see you about the place again.

On the whole, I would say no, there shouldn't be rules because I would count religious architecture, preaching, doorstep-ing and even bell-ringing or call-to-prayer singing as forms of religious advertising. As soon as you create loopholes for these, you open up avenues of interpretation such that other areas, which the law did cover would be undermined.

[viv41]

Stunned, but not surprised !

[DTCwordfan]

Nope

I remember the one outside a church in Leicester...."God Saves...." to which some had added a little graffiti, "But Peter Shilton is better." I guess that transcribes today as "But Kasper Schmeichel is better"

[janbee]

No religious advertising and no mobile mosques !

[Togo]

//If this religious adverting causes friction, then let the whole country feel this friction. I have heard rumours some muslims are not happy with this. So if they're not happy in London, let them all be unhappy up and down the country.//

A day or so ago we were being advised to keep our noses out of what happens in Londistan, when commenting on the new mayor, if we didn't live there. Now we are all in it together.

[-SharonA-]

Ha ha Togo, but I bet this thread was started by a non Londoner who is trying to whip up another frenzy about what is or will be happening in London.

[Jackdaw33]

A few years ago buses in Newcastle carried adverts extolling atheism.

[Togo]

//Ha ha Togo// (*_^)

[Sammy48]

The advertisement was for a Syrian Charity. I wonder how much those poor people would get and how much would ISIS get which I fear would be the real benefactors of this charity.

[agchristie]

SharonA > Ha ha Togo, but I bet this thread was started by a non Londoner who is trying to whip up another frenzy about what is or will be happening in London.

Yes, I am a non-Londoner but I don't know where you get the idea of whipping up another frenzy. Where was my previous attempt?

I simply put up a question for discussion!

[naomi24]

Sharon, I know Walthamstow, where you live, and shortly after 7/7, the worst day of my life, I drove through that area. As I drove I looked at all the men wearing beards and eastern clothing and wondered who among them supported and celebrated that atrocity. Him? Him? Who? You might think you’re rightly embracing multiculturalism but the fact is you have no idea who you are rubbing shoulders with - even though you think you do. Sorry (no, I’m not) but you are naive.

[-SharonA-]

That is true Naomi, we are rubbing shoulders with Muslims here and I guess it is the same in most areas. Maybe I am naive, but I still have to live here with these people so I am trying to make the best of a bad thing. At the moment there is nothing better and the Tories certainly are not helping.

[naomi24]

Sharon, for the first time you admit it's a bad thing. Party politics are irrelevant here. Look - really look - at what is around you - and on that thought I'm going to bed. Night. x