London’s Muslim Mayor To Ban Sexualised Images Of Women
Dan Kitwood/Getty
13 Jun 2016
London’s first ever Muslim Mayor is set to
ban images of ‘unrealistic’ scantily clad women from ads on public transport,
which could see the city adopt some of the most censorious policies in the Western world.
Sadiq Khan argued for the move by appropriating the language of feminism, claiming that alluring images of beautiful women could make them “ashamed of their bodies”.
Ironically, the policy is likely to please both the misogynistic Islamist and prudish, third wave feminist, whose ends appear increasingly similar.
The announcement comes five years after suspected Islamists began painting over images of bikini clad women in Tower Hamlets in East London, and last year after feminists began similarly defacing images of women in bikinis on London transport.
Left: London Underground, 2015. Right: Tower Hamlets, 2011
Images of women are banned in public across large parts of the Muslim world, and the phenomenon is now spreading in the Western world.
Germany’s ‘progressive’ Justice Minister, Heiko Maas, recently promised to ban ads which “reduce women or men to sexual objects” in an attempt to create a “modern gender image” following the mass sex attacks on New Year’s Eve in Cologne, committed by mostly Muslim migrants.
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/06/13/londons-muslim-mayor-ban-bikini-images-public/
Dan Kitwood/Getty
13 Jun 2016
London’s first ever Muslim Mayor is set to
ban images of ‘unrealistic’ scantily clad women from ads on public transport,
which could see the city adopt some of the most censorious policies in the Western world.
Sadiq Khan argued for the move by appropriating the language of feminism, claiming that alluring images of beautiful women could make them “ashamed of their bodies”.
Ironically, the policy is likely to please both the misogynistic Islamist and prudish, third wave feminist, whose ends appear increasingly similar.
The announcement comes five years after suspected Islamists began painting over images of bikini clad women in Tower Hamlets in East London, and last year after feminists began similarly defacing images of women in bikinis on London transport.
Left: London Underground, 2015. Right: Tower Hamlets, 2011
Images of women are banned in public across large parts of the Muslim world, and the phenomenon is now spreading in the Western world.
Germany’s ‘progressive’ Justice Minister, Heiko Maas, recently promised to ban ads which “reduce women or men to sexual objects” in an attempt to create a “modern gender image” following the mass sex attacks on New Year’s Eve in Cologne, committed by mostly Muslim migrants.
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/06/13/londons-muslim-mayor-ban-bikini-images-public/
