{"id":28786,"date":"2019-03-25T12:50:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T12:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=28786"},"modified":"2019-03-25T12:59:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T12:59:54","slug":"racist-graffiti-targets-indian-takeaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/25\/racist-graffiti-targets-indian-takeaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Racist Graffiti Targets Indian Takeaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A popular Indian takeaway had\u00a0 the word &#8220;P***&#8221; scrawled on its shutters in huge black graffiti, leaving the owner questioning: &#8220;Where am I living now?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Distraught Muzibur Rahman, who runs Saffron Indian Takeaway in\u00a0Solihull, says he feels &#8220;victimised and incredibly hurt&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rahman opened Saffron Indian Takeaway in Damsen Lane back in 1995, setting up in Solihull 24 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, I&#8217;m devastated,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t really express my feelings. This is something very unusual that has happened.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a long time we have been in Solihull, this kind of thing has never happened before.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got lots of customers, friendly people living here and they use us regularly. Nobody said nothing [like this ]to us at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve never felt like we&#8217;re from another country. This is like our home for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old was disgusted with what was a targeted racial attack on his business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It happened between 11pm on Tuesday (March 19) and Wednesday morning,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s still on the shutters now. I just don&#8217;t understand. Where am I living now? I belong in Solihull, England is my country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just feel victimised, incredibly hurt.<\/p>\n<p>West Midlands Police, meanwhile, confirmed it is investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, and in another racist vandal attack, a derelict pub in Kingstanding was tagged with, &#8220;England, No P****&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The disgusting graffiti was spray-painted onto the walls of The Kingstanding, close to the shopping centre precinct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular Indian takeaway had\u00a0 the word &#8220;P***&#8221; scrawled on its shutters in huge black graffiti, leaving the owner questioning: &#8220;Where am I living now?&#8221; Distraught Muzibur Rahman, who runs Saffron Indian Takeaway in\u00a0Solihull, says he feels &#8220;victimised and incredibly hurt&#8221;. Mr Rahman opened Saffron Indian Takeaway in Damsen Lane back in 1995, setting up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,37,3,112],"tags":[264,2077,2076,1373,1356],"class_list":["post-28786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-birmingham","tag-racist-graffiti","tag-saffron-indian-takeaway","tag-solihull","tag-west-midlands-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}