‘Poppies banned in terror hotspots, Muslim snub to forces’
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Thursday November 06 2008
Britain’s terror hotspots are no-go zones for poppy sellers claims the Daily Star.
The paper, dispatching reporters to towns in northern England with large Muslim populations claims that few, if any, shops were found to stock poppies, though the paper’s headline misleadingly phrases this as a ‘ban’.
‘Not only do stores in areas linked to Islamic extremism fail to stock them, many shopkeepers claim never to have heard of them’, according to the paper.
‘A Daily Star probe revealed a marked lack of support for armed forces personnel in districts with known terror links.’
‘Derby’s bustling Normanton Road, home to dozens of Muslim-owned shops, was another poppy-free zone.’
The paper also features a comment piece on the news item in its leader:
