EXPRESS: A SHOPKEEPER was threatened with arrest by police after he displayed a T shirt in his shop window with the statement: "Respect out beliefs or get out of our country."
T shirt printer Matthew Taylor created the shirt in the wake of Drummer Lee Rigby's tragic death.
But following a complaint from a member of the public, police came to his store in Newport, South Wales, and threatened to arrest him unless he removed the T shirt from sight.
Matthew said: "I had a visit from two community support officers because it has been reported by someone who felt it was offensive.
"It's not meant to be offensive, and that's not the reason I produced it. It's what I believe. » | Charlotte Meredith | Wednesday, June 05, 2013
TELEGRAPH BLOGS – SEAN THOMAS: The Muslim hate preacher and the T-shirt salesman: a bizarre study in double standards: Compare and contrast. A few days ago, one of Britain’s best-loved hate preachers, Anjem Choudary, a man so widely admired that we pay him £25,0000 a year in benefits so he can live in this country, was filmed saying murdered Woolwich soldier Lee Rigby will "burn in hellfire" as a non-Muslim. » | Sean Thomas | Wednesday, June 05, 2013
