11 June 2013

The anti-Islam backlash plumbs new depths

Watford’s MP has written to the Home office after anti-Muslim graffiti appeared outside a West Watford infant school.

The words “Quran is rubbish” have been scrawled on the pavement near Chater School, in Harwoods Road.

The slur makes reference to the central holy text of Islam.

.... The spelling, "Quran" (with a reverse Q, if you check the photo), surely suggests someone brought up as a Muslim: a disgruntled ex-member, as it were, of the "excellent community" of Watford Muslims. Non-Muslims would likely use "Koran".

Whatever, it's good to know that this sort of behaviour - suggesting, on a public highway, that the Quran might not be all it's cracked up to be - is now deemed sufficiently outrageous to be brought to the attention of the Home Office Minister. [Guardian Cif] Read more