Anti-Muslim Graffiti Corrected In Dublin

Dublin: Anti-Muslim graffiti painted on a wall last week in Dublin, Ireland, was immediately corrected as a gesture of good will. 

The graffiti was painted on a wall near Croke Park in Dublin. It was done after the recent terrorist attack in Brussels — in which thirty one people died in bombings at a Brussels airport, and a metro station. Two blasts in the Zaventem airport at around 7am on Tuesday left 11 people dead, and a third explosion at Maelbeek metro station left another 20 dead. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) took responsibility for the bombings. The bombings were the deadliest act of terrorism in Belgium's history. The Belgian government declared three days of national morning following the tragedy.

After originally reading: “All Muslims are scum”, it was corrected to: “All Muslims are sound”. The move has been highly appreciated by people across the globe on various social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Fazel Ryklief, from the Islamic Foundation of Ireland, welcomed the move. He said “May be that is the way to treat things. Instead of getting angry and annoyed, just change it.” “Putting it aside is perhaps better than making a big deal of these things. It brings a little smile to know that someone has a sense of humor,” he further added.

Anti-Islam group Pegida, which was founded in Germany, clashed with counter-protesters during a rally in Dublin last February, while 100-300 protesters in Birmingham joined Britain's first Pegida demonstration.