I picked this up on the local TV news tonight, but it bears repeating for anyone who hasn’t seen it:

A mosque in Stoke-on-Trent was sprayed with graffiti referring to an upcoming English Defence League rally.

Mosque administrators discovered the daubed message at 0630 GMT on Saturday and had removed it within two hours.

Staffordshire Police said a criminal damage investigation was under way into the incident in the Normacot area.

A police spokesman said: “The community haven’t reacted to it, so it hasn’t achieved what the person who did it wanted to achieve.”

Whether the perpetrator is, in fact, associated with the EDL or linked to another far right group with a vested interest in stirring up trouble is anything but clear at this point.

What is clear, however, is that a deliberate attempt was made to draw the local Muslim community into a confrontation with EDL supporters; one that, fortunately, fell flat on its face.

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