Luton Liberal Democrat offices vandalised by fundamentalist supporters

By Mark Pack | Sat 24th April 2010 - 3:20 pm

From a party news release:

Luton Liberal Democrats arrived to start their days campaigning to discover the frontage of their offices being vandalised. The offices had been sprayed with ‘Voting Shirk’ and plastered with postcards advertising the fundamentalist group’s website and message.

Qurban Hussain, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate, commented on the incident: ‘I have always said that extremists and fundamentalists have no place in politics or religion. We are disappointed that our offices have been targeted but this is just another indicator that things are going well for us here in Luton South. We are very clearly rattling cages.’

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5 Comments

Duncan 24th Apr '10 - 4:47pm

What does ‘fundamentalist’ mean here? Translation?
Felix Holt 24th Apr '10 - 5:23pm

@Duncan: try googling ‘voting shirk’; you’ll see they are islamic fundamentalists.
Alec 24th Apr '10 - 5:57pm

Shirk is the sin of polytheism in Islam, which austere iterations of Islam have expanded to including democratic methods (that is, there is no need for it when Allah knows best). I would not be at all surprised if this is related to a certain group – led by a man who had a trick of speed-drinking cider, as well as engaging in casual sex and recreational drugs whilst at university – which has been banned under many different guises but keeps coming back like whack a’ mole with increasingly outrageous performances which strike as publicity stunts.

Good one, LDV, on not naming them.
Degwm 24th Apr '10 - 6:03pm

I bet they are the Luton equivalent of these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE
Alec 24th Apr '10 - 6:06pm

Or this guy.

Steady on girls, he’s married.