A woman has been arrested in England for barring Muslim customers from patronizing her beauty salon. She allegedly made Facebook posts implying she would no longer take bookings from customers in the wake of the Paris attacks.
Under section 19 of the Public Order Act, individuals are from "the display of written material which is threatening, abusive or insulting with the intention of stirring up racial hatred, and for producing malicious communications". It is on the strength of this provision that April Major, owner of Blinks of Bicester was arrested.
This is what she wrote on her Facebook page: "Time to put my country first.
"Blinks
of Bicester are no longer taking bookings from anyone from the Islamic
faith whether you are UK granted with passport or not."
Another
post allegedly read: "I have been inundated with messages tonight as I
said I would not book any muslin [sic] or Islamic client. I stand by
that completely as a UK citizen."
And a third reportedly said: "I hope your families get blown up by ISIS."
She is yet to be charged with an offence.
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