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On 4 December 2015 a Facebook user shared the above-reproduced status update and photograph, with the former reporting that: The user's claim that the buses were all over London on 4 December 2015 was demonstrably false; reverse image searches for the photo used by that individual were dated to January 2015 (nearly a year earlier): After the photograph of the Islamic message on a London bus initially appeared in January 2015, it was later recirculated with a claim that the banner had been attached to the bus by order of the British government: We were unable to substantiate any involvement by the British government in the use of the banner, but its visual style doesn't match official government signage, and the placement outside the bus appears atypical for advertisements on public transport in the UK. Although we were unable to locate a complete explanation for the banners, a commenter to the Facebook post suggested that they were displayed on buses engaged as transport for a private event: While the source of the banner remains unclear, the photograph in question was taken on 9 January 2015 at the latest (and wasn't from 4 December 2015). The poster additionally claimed that the Lords Prayer was banned in cinema's [sic], which was also not entirely accurate. A 22 November 2015 BBC article reported that a cinema chain management agency had rejected a Church of England advertisement. That advertisement included the Lord's Prayer and was turned down because its overall content was deemed too overtly religious (a policy that broadly applies to both political and religious content in cinema ads): On 23 November 2015, the Guardian reported that: That piece quoted a British ad industry exec, who asserted that accepting the Church of England's ad would open the door for in-cinema proselytizing :
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