CHURCH and community leaders have issued a plea for calm after a village war memorial was defaced with Islamist extremist graffiti.
Stretton ward councillor Frank Bather at the vandalised war memorialResidents in Stretton woke up yesterday to discover the memorial, in Church Road, had been spray-painted with the slogan ‘Support Taliban’. It is the second such incident to happen in the Burton area in little more than a year.
Meanwhile, a bus shelter in nearby Britannia Drive was emblazoned with the words ‘Jihad 4 Iraq’ while a building in Casey Lane, Shobnall, was targeted with a similar slogan. [Burton Mail] Read more [via The Iconoclast]
