Posters from Islamic finance start-up Wahed Invest likely to cause ‘serious offence’, rules ASA

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UK watchdog bans adverts featuring burning dollars

A regulator says the posters for Wahed Invest, seen on Transport for London services, are offensive.

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London: Wahed Invest's adverts showing banknotes on fire banned

The Advertising Standards Authority ruled that the burning of the US dollar and euro banknotes would have caused serious offence to some people.

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Ads for Islamic investment platform showing burning US and euro banknotes banned

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The posters of the online platform Wahed Invest, banned on Wednesday by the advertising regulator, show a Muslim preacher or the Russian MMA fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov surrounded by flaming euro and dollar bills.

Les affiches de la plateforme en ligne Wahed Invest, interdites mercredi par le régulateur de la publicité, montrent un prêcheur musulman ou encore le combattant de MMA russe Khabib Nurmagomedov entourés de billets en euros et dollars enflammés.

Le Royaume-Uni interdit des publicités d’un site d’investissement islamique, jugées « offensantes »

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The United Kingdom bans ads from an Islamic investment site, deemed “offensive”

LONDON: Britain’s advertising regulator on Wednesday banned advertisements by an Islamic investment platform that  “caused serious offence” for featuring images of burning dollar and euro banknotes on posters across London’s transport network. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it had taken action over the ads seen on London’s underground railway and buses in late 2024. Online platform Wahed Invest said its  “imagery sought to visual…

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Britain bans Islamic investment group’s ‘offensive’ ads

Sadiq Khan's Transport for London (TfL) has been forced to remove a series of billboards featuring a controversial Islamic preacher that were first exposed by GB News.An Advertising Standards Authority crackdown has seen the campaign by Islamic finance firm Wahed pulled from signs across the capital.In October 2024, GB News revealed Wahed had been advertising its products through Muslim preacher Ismail ibn Musa Menk, known as "Mufti Menk" and ex…

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Sadiq Khan forced to REMOVE controversial Islamic preacher ads from TfL after Advertising Standards Authority crackdown

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The adverts, which appeared on TfL services, including the Tube and buses, featured US dollar and euro banknotes on fire

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Tube adverts for Islamic platform showing burning banknotes banned

Advertising posters for an Islamic investment platform were removed from the London transport network because they were deemed “seriously offensive”.

Des affiches publicitaires d'une plateforme d'investissement islamique ont été supprimées du réseau de transport londonien, car jugées «gravement offensantes».

Il brûle des euros et des dollars: une pub crée la polémique

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He burns euros and dollars: an ad creates controversy

The Advertising Standards Authority ruled that the burning of the US dollar and euro banknotes would have caused serious offence to some people.  Six ads for an Islamic investment platform showing US dollar and euro banknotes on fire have been banned after a regulator ruled they were likely to cause serious offence. The posters for Wahed Invest, seen in September and October on Transport for London (TfL) services including tubes and buses, featu…

UK watchdog bans adverts featuring burning dollars

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