Reminder to clean up after yourself finds Muslims insulted

From the "religion of the perpetually insulted" comes this gem. A poster that was to be distributed in Muslim areas got the thumbs-down after Muslims complained it singled them out for discrimination by asking them to not litter. It seems in Muslim areas the problems with litter and garbage exceeds other non-Muslim areas, so in the name of public sanitation and beauty local residents were encouraged to pick up after themselves.

Well, you know what the reaction was from local Muslims, and consequently the posters were sent to the trash bin.

From The Daily Mail November 20 by Glen Owen

BINNED: Anti-litter poster that was an 'insult to Muslims'

A Labour council was at the centre of a race row last night after printing a leaflet targeted at Muslims that invoked the name of Allah in urging them to stop littering the streets.

Bradford City Council was accused of inciting racial hatred by publishing leaflets that showed rubbish-strewn pavements – and appeared to place the blame on Muslims.

In reality it was those pesky Mennonites who come in the middle of the night and throw trash all around.

The pamphlet, titled ‘Be proud of your environment’, used the Koran to lecture them about breaking the law and making a ‘horrible’ mess of the city.

It said: ‘We should respect Allah’s creations and the environments they live in. We should not act with ungratefulness by treating our surroundings with disrespect and throwing litter.’

It was aimed at an area of the city boasting a high concentration of Muslims and which the council says has a problem with messy streets.

'The pamphlet said: ‘Muslims are able to pray anywhere in the world . . . we always have to keep our place of prayer clean – so why not start with the streets and neighbourhoods that we live in?’

Conservative councillor John Robertshaw said he was ‘mortified’ to discover 16,000 of the ‘full-colour, glossy’ leaflets.

‘If these had gone out, the council could have been charged with inciting racial hatred, suggesting that litter dropping is exclusive to, or more prevalent among, Muslims,’ he said.

What race is Islam again?

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