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3 June 2014

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Flashmob goes #ShoppingForPeter

FIRST MINISTER Peter Robinson’s condescending remarks that he would ‘trust Muslims to go the shops’ was answered by hundreds of people joining a ‘flashmob’ from Tesco’s to the Castlecourt Shopping Centre on Belfast’s Royal Avenue on the Saturday afternoon of the City Hall anti-racism rally.

The Twitter hashtag and protest slogan was #ShoppingForPeter.

Defending controversial Christian fundamentalist James McConnell’s right to deliver an anti-Muslim diatribe on 18 May, the DUP leader and First Minister said:

“I wouldn’t trust Muslims who are following Sharia law to the letter and neither would he.

“However, as I have said in many of the normal daily activities of life, I would have no difficulty in trusting Muslims to go down to the shop for me.”

Many passersby spontaneously joined the ‘flashmob’ to show their disgust at the First Minister’s stance.

The protesters were addressed by Sara Boyce of the West Belfast-based West Against Racism Network (Warn) and Saeb Sha’ath, a Palestinian activist living in Belfast.

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