The body of a 65 year old Muslim grandmother (who died of cancer) has been violated in a London hospital mortuary, covered with rashers of bacon. Read the full report in the Guardian.
I don’t blame the old woman’s family for being shaken and appalled. It is a horrifying act, most irresponsible and insensitive, and does absolutely nothing to address growing racial and religious tensions. In fact, it’s more than downright childish; it’s unimaginably warped.
(Not that I have any real authority over this, but) I condemn this act.
This makes me all the more glad that this sort of thing has never happened in Singapore. The race riots in the 1960s don’t even come close to what’s happened. Racial and religious harmony is something we often take for granted.