London, Aug 1 (IANS) Two Muslim teenagers in London painted burqas over advertisements that showed scantily-clad women, saying it was sin for women to be exposed, a court has heard.
Mohammed Hasnath and Muhammed Tahir – both 18 – were spotted defacing advertisements of a deodorant and of a film actress at a bus stand. They were arrested after being found painting over female faces outside a shop, The Sun reported.
‘They said the way the women had been photographed was against their religion. They said it was a sin in Islam for a male to look twice at an uncovered woman,’ prosecutor Taiwo Akinrowo told the Thames magistrates’ court.
Hasnath said: ‘The pictures – that is someone’s daughter. We were just trying to do good.’
Both the teenagers were told to pay 283 pounds in costs, and were later freed.
