Graffiti attack on Stoke mosque before riot


by Unity    
11:03 pm - January 25th 2010

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I picked this up on the local TV news tonight, but it bears repeating for anyone who hasn’t seen it:

A mosque in Stoke-on-Trent was sprayed with graffiti referring to an upcoming English Defence League rally.

Mosque administrators discovered the daubed message at 0630 GMT on Saturday and had removed it within two hours.

Staffordshire Police said a criminal damage investigation was under way into the incident in the Normacot area.

A police spokesman said: “The community haven’t reacted to it, so it hasn’t achieved what the person who did it wanted to achieve.”

Whether the perpetrator is, in fact, associated with the EDL or linked to another far right group with a vested interest in stirring up trouble is anything but clear at this point.

What is clear, however, is that a deliberate attempt was made to draw the local Muslim community into a confrontation with EDL supporters; one that, fortunately, fell flat on its face.

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Reader comments


1. Libertarian Twat

“Whether the perpetrator is, in fact, associated with the EDL or linked to another far right group with a vested interest in stirring up trouble is anything but clear at this point.”

Far LEFT. Don’t you lot know anything? (etc, etc).

2. Tom

Ah… Stoke…

The UKs bile gland…

3. Watchman

Unity,

I would suggest there is also the possibility of an islamist trying to inflame emotions? There are equally unpleasant (and equally so far-right/left that they are on the dark side of the political spectrum – where only political fungus grows?) groups in most communities remember. Rather than guessing the culprit, lets assume it was an idiot trying to provoke trouble, currently unidentified? If identified, then we can say who it was.

4. asquith

Fuck off Tom. We may have our problems but at least we haven’t got any sneering, middle-class Tory cunts.

5. Watchman

4.

asquith,

Would you swap say half your problems for three such Tories? I’m sure there are plenty of areas ready to do a swap.

6. Daniel Hoffmann-Gill

I think Watchman missed the first comment and then tried to blame it on Muslims.

Text book stuff.

7. John Q. Publican

Watchman @3:

Rationally speaking, that’s staggeringly unlikely. Mosque buildings house the written name of Allah upon their fabric and are thus intrinsically sacred objects. A muslim will not allow a magazine containing the name of God to touch the ground; do you really think a muslim would write graffiti on a mosque?

No. Good try, but just really, no.


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