{"id":7229,"date":"2015-01-20T11:53:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T11:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/01\/20\/hateful-graffiti\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:18:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:18:27","slug":"hateful-graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/20\/hateful-graffiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Hateful Graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>\u2018Islam Must Die\u2019 and Swastika Spray Painted onto University of Birmingham Wall<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"middle\" width=\"458\" height=\"191\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BU-islam-graffiti-458x191.jpg\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAnti-Semitic and Islamophobic graffiti was spray painted onto campus walls of the University of Birmingham. The offensive messages were sprayed in black paint on the red brick wall of the University of Birmingham, in Edgbaston, as reported by the student newspaper, The Tab Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nPolice believe the incident may be linked to a similar incident where offensive graffiti was painted on Jalalabad Trust Mosque, less than a mile away from the campus in Selly Oak.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nPolice are investigating CCTV footage to identify the culprits and the graffiti has since been removed. West Midlands Police are urging witnesses to come forward with information. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nSergeant Pete Sandhu said, \u201cMindless hate of this kind has no place in 21st century Birmingham and work is underway to find the person responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nSecond-year student Hannah Sharron wrote in an open letter to the vandals, \u201cYou will not force Jewish students off campus. You will not intimidate Muslim students. You will not disrespect the memories of every minority persecuted under the Nazi regime, for whom any adjective \u2013 vile, disgusting, horrible \u2013 seems too mild.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nFiyaz Mughal from organisation Tell MAMA UK (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks) said of the graffiti, \u201cThis is appalling, where someone has the guts and chutzpah to place such a statement inferring that Islam must die on a university campus that has lots of Muslim students.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cIf that is the case, one can easily infer that this person wants Muslims to be killed and was trying to put themselves outside of hate speech.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Islam Must Die\u2019 and Swastika Spray Painted onto University of Birmingham Wall &#13; Anti-Semitic and Islamophobic graffiti was spray painted onto campus walls of the University of Birmingham. The offensive messages were sprayed in black paint on the red brick wall of the University of Birmingham, in Edgbaston, as reported by the student newspaper, The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229","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=7229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}