Two Muslim teenagers in the U.K. have been convicted of spray-painting burkas over women in public advertisements, the Daily Mail reports. Mohammed Hasnath and Muhammend Tahir, both 18, told police that they defaced the ads featuring scantily clad women because they found the depictions as an offense against their religious beliefs.

Prosecutor Taiwo Akirowo said the two told police that “it was a sin in Islam for a male to look twice at a woman who is not covered,” and that both defendants “accept it was not legal because it was not their property.”

One ad featured a model dressed as an angel in a deodorant ad; another was for the Nicholas Cage movie Drive Angry. The pair were caught after members of the public called police.

Newser reports that each of the teens was fined $450 and “released on a 12-month conditional charge.”

The Daily Mail says that the case “came only days after Islamic extremists started a poster campaign proclaiming areas where Sharia law ‘enforcement zones’ have been set up.
The messages order that there should be ‘no gambling’, ‘no music or concerts’, ‘no porn or prostitution’, ‘no drugs or smoking’ and ‘no alcohol’.” Pink News, a European gay news service, reports that Hasnath was fined in June for putting up posters declaring one area a “gay free zone.”