koevoetconstable
12-16-2009, 11:43 PM
On the night of December 8-9, in the West Midlands town of Burton, someone spray painted "Islam will dominate the world" on the local war memorial. The local newspaper, Burton Mail, ran the following article on December 11:
Vandals deface the town war memorial
By RICHARD CASTLE
A Royal British Legion boss says vandals have "dishonoured those who have given their lives for our country" by defacing Burton's war memorial.
Roy Whenman, vice-chairman of the town's Legion branch, received calls from members saying an extremist message had been written on the statue. Having been informed at 9.20am, borough council chiefs had cleaned the graffiti from the relic, situated outside Burton College, in Lichfield Street, by 9.40am.
Mr Whenman, of Birches Close, Stretton, has descibed whoever committed the offence as "diabolical".
He said: "There's nothing worse, in my eyes, than discrediting a war memorial. It dishonours those who have given their lives for our country.
"I don't know how long it was there for, but I was pleasantly surprised by the council's quick action and I commend them for it.
"What I would say to them is there are other ways of expressing your anger about certain issues."
Dennis Fletcher, chairman of East Staffordshire Racial Equality Council, said he suspected someone from the far right was responsible.
He said: "My reaction is one of horror. Just two nights ago at our general committee meeting we were talking about the harmony between communities in the borough.
"I suspect members of the far right have done this to stir things up and there are generally very good inter-culteral relations in East Staffordshire.
"Graffiti of any type is terrible but when it includes racist material it has to be considered utterly unacceptable."
An East Staffordshire Borough Council spokesman said: "We would say that this vandalism is deplorable and we do our best to clean such graffiti as soon as we possibly can."
The Mail has manipulated the mainpicture to remove some of the content of the message.
END OF STORY
The photo which accompanied the story did not show the graffiti, nor was the text of the graffiti mentioned in the article. The article, without any evidence, implies that it was a right-wing, racist message. They should have given the WHOLE story and let the readers come to whatever conclusion they want. It could just have easily been Muslim radicals as right-wingers. This is just another example of the politically correct media doing it's best not to offend Muslims.
Attatched is a photo showing the text of the graffiti.
Vandals deface the town war memorial
By RICHARD CASTLE
A Royal British Legion boss says vandals have "dishonoured those who have given their lives for our country" by defacing Burton's war memorial.
Roy Whenman, vice-chairman of the town's Legion branch, received calls from members saying an extremist message had been written on the statue. Having been informed at 9.20am, borough council chiefs had cleaned the graffiti from the relic, situated outside Burton College, in Lichfield Street, by 9.40am.
Mr Whenman, of Birches Close, Stretton, has descibed whoever committed the offence as "diabolical".
He said: "There's nothing worse, in my eyes, than discrediting a war memorial. It dishonours those who have given their lives for our country.
"I don't know how long it was there for, but I was pleasantly surprised by the council's quick action and I commend them for it.
"What I would say to them is there are other ways of expressing your anger about certain issues."
Dennis Fletcher, chairman of East Staffordshire Racial Equality Council, said he suspected someone from the far right was responsible.
He said: "My reaction is one of horror. Just two nights ago at our general committee meeting we were talking about the harmony between communities in the borough.
"I suspect members of the far right have done this to stir things up and there are generally very good inter-culteral relations in East Staffordshire.
"Graffiti of any type is terrible but when it includes racist material it has to be considered utterly unacceptable."
An East Staffordshire Borough Council spokesman said: "We would say that this vandalism is deplorable and we do our best to clean such graffiti as soon as we possibly can."
The Mail has manipulated the mainpicture to remove some of the content of the message.
END OF STORY
The photo which accompanied the story did not show the graffiti, nor was the text of the graffiti mentioned in the article. The article, without any evidence, implies that it was a right-wing, racist message. They should have given the WHOLE story and let the readers come to whatever conclusion they want. It could just have easily been Muslim radicals as right-wingers. This is just another example of the politically correct media doing it's best not to offend Muslims.
Attatched is a photo showing the text of the graffiti.