A market trader banned from selling Knights Templar crusader mugs over fears they could offend Muslims has been invited to crunch talks with council officials, who look set to offer a reprieve.
Tina Gayle received an official rebuke and a ban over the coloured printed cups which Charnworth Council in Leicestershire said “breached trading rules”.
Vintage book seller Gayle said she had been told the council “had a complaint that the mugs might be offensive to Muslims”.
A letter stated she was in breach of trading terms and conditions and had to leave her pitch of three years at Loughborough Vintage Market.
The mugs, also stamped with the Christian chivalric order’s Latin motto which translates as: “Not to us Lord, not to us, but to your name give the glory”, brought a single complaint.
But now the council appears to have re-considered its approach, summoning Gayle for a meeting with market bosses next week. [The Huffington Post UK] Read more
