A campaign leaflet of the Belgian Flemish far-right Vlaams Belang party, featuring Senator Anke Van Dermeersch. Paris-based luxury shoe designer Christian Louboutin is asking a Belgian court to kill a far-right campaign using his iconic stilettos for the poster denouncing Islam. PHOTO: AFP
BRUSSELS: Luxury shoe designer Christian Louboutin is asking a Belgian court to kill a far-right campaign using his iconic stilettos for a poster denouncing Islam, the Belga news agency reported Wednesday.
The poster by Flemish group "Women against Islamisation" shows the bare legs of an ex-Miss Belgium wearing signature red-soled Louboutins as she lifts up a black dress.
Words etched along the naked leg mark potential skirt lengths - ranging from "Sharia compatible" at the ankle to "stoning" high up a thigh.
The poster is loosely inspired by a photograph by Canadian feminist Rosea Lake which went viral in January called "Judgements", depicting various skirt lengths ranging from "matronly" to "whore".
The poster carries the slogan "Liberty or Islam" as well as the group's web address.
According to Belga, the legs are those of Anke Van Dermeersch, Miss Belgium of 1991 but now a senator for extreme anti-immigrant rightwing party Vlaams Belang.
Paris-based couture shoe stylist Louboutin says the ad tarnishes his image and wants an emergency "cease and desist" ruling from an Antwerp trade court.
A decision is expected Friday.
The Vlaams Belang party, meaning Flemish Interest, has suffered in the polls in recent years and regularly launches provocative media campaigns against what it calls the "Islamisation of Belgium".
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A message to Mr Christian Louboutin:If it wasn't for those women ,European women, you would be a NOBODY. So I suppose, that women stop wearing your shoes, and when there are Muslim women in Europe, the only thing you could do with those red soles of yours, WILL BE SANDALS! source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUkJFs04BLQ&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PL1cAturoTLPMzClSOrjxv9BD3_jJdAOj- from 17:18 min.
@Mohammad:
The Internet will be lead to Islam's Waterloo:
-2011 FBI Annual Report on Terrorism, http://www.nctc.gov/docs/2011NCTCAnnua… page 11: Of 12,533 terrorist deaths 77 were committed by Neo-Nazi, fascist or white supremacists; Muslims committed 8,886.
-wikipedia has a list of 144 terrorist organizations officially designated as terrorist by various Nations. Go through each profile and you will find that 20 are motivated by ideology -- Marxism, socialism, Maoism, fascism, Nazism, etc. The rest, 124, are motivated by religion: 17 involve Irish Christians, 7 involve non-Irish Christians and Sikhs, 7 involve other religious entities -- 93 involve Muslims.
-Bing/Google search “civil wars in the world” and then research each one. You will find that over 80% of them involve Muslims.
What's the big deal with Islam? Nothing to see here!
-2011 FBI Annual Report on Terrorism, http://www.nctc.gov/docs/2011NCTCAnnua… page 11: Of 12,533 terrorist deaths 77 were committed by Neo-Nazi, fascist or white supremacists; Muslims committed 8,886.
-wikipedia has a list of 144 terrorist organizations officially designated as terrorist by various Nations. Go through each profile and you will find that 20 are motivated by ideology -- Marxism, socialism, Maoism, fascism, Nazism, etc. The rest, 124, are motivated by religion: 17 involve Irish Christians, 7 involve non-Irish Christians and Sikhs, 7 involve other religious entities -- 93 involve Muslims.
-Bing/Google search “civil wars in the world” and then research who fights in them. You will find that over 80% of them involve Muslims. They fight against all cultures and religions. They fight in China, Russia, Bosnia, Cyprus, Macedonia, Israel, Pakistan, India, Indonesia-Ambon & Halmarhera, Côte d'Ivoire, Kashmir, Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Kurdistan, Kirghizia, Nigeria, Philippines, Somalia, Turkey, Chechnya, Sudan, Yemen, Thailand, Uganda, Azerbaijan, Mali, Chad, Libya, Bangladesh and East Timor.
@Hamza: Freedom of speech DOES include the right to insult, debate or take apart beliefs. There is no place for censorship of religious ideas or discussion in a free society. Islam has no right to special protection from being offended just the same as other faiths are subject to scrutiny, even if that scrutiny gives offence. I make no secret of the fact that I dislike the ideology of Islam intensely, just as I dislike to a similar degree, fascism and communism and for roughly the same reasons.
" you can see that Islam is fine"
IF YOU ARE WILFULLY BLIND...
@Hamza: Freedom of religion doesn't mean Muslims can kill non-muslims, as they do worldwide on a daily basis in the name of Allah.
Islam is fine as a religion, Arab culture is just incredibly inferior. It just so happens Arabs adopt Islam, so by insulting Arabs, it seems that Islam is being insulted as well (which sometimes they are). But when you separate them, you can see that Islam is fine, but the culture is just really really bad. And since Arab men can judge women, so can the world judge the Arab men by the way they judge their women.
in other news ... saudi arabia sentenced 3 men to 10 years and 2000 lashes for supposedly dancing without clothes on. Read the link to get more details.
Many North-African Muslims have brought their culture of violence, misogyny and intolerance to Belgium. The people who vote for this party, see Islam as the prime motivator behind the crime and asocial behaviour immigrants have brought with them. Naturally they are going to be critical of Islam. It is not like women are not honour killed, molested and repressed in Islamic countries.
Well, then the christian nuns are just as vulnerable
I agree with the this campaign, as should every sane person.
Yes, there are enough skewed mentalities equating the despicable commercialization of the female body with women's lib, when it means exactly the opposite. You don't even have to be a Muslim to be opposed to that, actually.
@Hamza:
Actually it does. It could be bad or vulgar speech, but it is still free speech. If we use your criteria of disallowing insults to other beliefs then many of the holy texts will get banned for insulting other religions and disbelievers.
To insult Islam is called freedom of speech, why not talk about holocaust?????
When muslims bad mouth about hindus or christians or jews etc do pakistanis raise their voice to stop that mullah? The answer is never. Pakistanis only criticise people who speak against Islam but never bother to criticize people who spread hate against other faiths.
' Women against Islamisation ' aren't gong to gain much but Louboutin sales are going to reach new heights especially in the Islamic world.
When everything fails do cheap shots.
Freedom of speech DOES NOT mean freedom to inslut other's beliefs and lifestyles. Shame Shame Shame!
they can stoop to any level to make anti islam campaigns, they will not only fail in this life but also the next. lol ..it brings a smile on my face when i think about whats gonna happen to them..
Way to go.... The followers of religion of peace, have a golden opportunity to demonstrate it.
@Mohammad: there is a difference between bashing and criticizing lack of indoctrination is not lack of research
To West: you won't give up bashing Islam, some of it is our mistakes promoting Islam wrongly, some is yours because you write about things you don't know or don't research!
how pathetic!