Sexy Arab Ads

From Planck's Constant:

I often write that Muslims live rather boring lives, with no beer, boobs, or barbecues. Add the prohibition against gambling and one can understand why there are no such things as Muslim cruises.

So it pleases me to see some folks in Muslim countries engaging in sexy advertising. City Mall in Beirut had this provocative ad on the front page of a Lebanese newspaper a while back. The idea was to allay shoppers' fears about bombs; here we see a great looking babe making sure that the guy with the bulge in his pants is not carrying a stick of dynamite.

Perhaps because this section of Beirut is heavily Christian they can get away with such un-Islamic advertising.

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