Tim Blair

Need to be more religously sensitive - how about a nice "What G-String Would Mohammad Wear?" campaign?

No it's pictures of living things are offensive to muslims.

If they were obviously dead it would be OK...

Can we move the offensive mosque away instead? I suggest the inside of a live volcano.

What did poor loveable live volcanoes ever do to you Rob?

It's outrageous that these posters were placed outside mosques in Bury and Leeds. They should have been put somewhere far more suitable, like opposite the window on the 3rd floor of the building where I work in Kensington.

Underwear? Bah... could have been worse.
Yes, tampons.

I suppose putting head scarves on the lovelies in the advert wouldn't be enough to appease the submitters to the will of you-know-who. Nay--only full burquas would do, n'est-ce pas?

What I would like to know is how near the billboards were? 10 metres, 100 metres, what? What sort of criteria did the planners use in deciding this?

For example, can we know whether the council planners would have done the same thing had this poster been near a Christian, Jewish, or other place of worship?

Well, at least the show the billboard in question, although the Beeb could have put up a bigger picture of it.

Sloggi say the advert was not meant to cause offence

Oh, trust me Sloggi, that picture isn't causing any offence here...

mmmmm, string...

"BRITAIN REMAINS SEXLESS"

So, that's their problem! And here I thought it was caused by being so close to Europe.

Former: "No Sex Please! We're British!"

Present: "No Sex Please! We're religion-addled psycho seditionist Muslims!"

So where does this leave the Coppertone ad? I've heard that the sheikhs like 'em young anyway, as did mohammed himself, and I wouldn't want to lead any of them astray.

Perhaps Muslims prefer sheep in g-strings

Is this the same Britain that wants to teach its kids to have oral sex? Oh wait -- I guess they don't consider that "real sex."

alongside the slogan "It's string time".

They don't like hanging? What are the preferred methods of execution in the Dar-Al-Islam?

Perhaps Sloggi could put up pictures of young guys with cute arses in g-strings, instead.

The ad sounds tastless. Considering basic levels of decency, this isn't the best example of Muslim intolerance. I think most parents of young children (of which I am) would object to that billboard.

Britain's constitution isn't worth the paper it's printed on. They need to arm themselves with a First Amendment to beat back these PC militants.

Elizabeth, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the UK is one of the few western countries without an explicitly written constitution.

Half Canadian, the ad may be tasteless, but the real crux of this is the genuflection - or bending over backwards - to certain groups whilst at the same completely reinventing the moral compass of ordinary, moderate citizens - such as the oral sex story Andrea Harris refers to above - that is so striking.