Slighly insensitive headline for a ‘keep Brum tidy’ campaign?

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Inner city Muslims and friends will be taking to the streets of inner city Birmingham on 23rd September to launch a jihad (struggle) against waste. Rappers, drummers, flag wavers with litter pickers to hand will converge on Small Heath’s Somerville Road to clean up the district.

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 6th, 2007 at 9:28 pm by Jon Bounds and is filed under Birmingham. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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  1. on 11 September 2007 at 3:18 pm Podnosh Blog : High Fibre Podcasting wrote:

    A Jihad on Birmingham Rubbish…

    Well the headline certainly caught Jon Bound’s attention (perhaps it made him wince?). A Jihad (struggle) against rubbish in Small Heath in Birmingham has been declared for September 23rd. MPACUK tells us:
    Tired of rubbish-strewn streets, Muslim…

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