All it takes to generate a racist myth is a tiny grain of truth, a willingness to lie and the internet.
I have an elderly acquaintance who enjoys forwarding the latest jokes that appear in his in-box. Sometimes they are a bit risque. They are normally harmless fun. I don't forward them further but I must admit that I fell off my seat when I read the one about the military man who hadn't made love since 1955.
Last week however he forwarded me something a little more sinister. It was accompanied by the picture here of a poppy posted on the doors of a mosque in Posrtmouth.
The message read:
"One is seriously wondering who's country we live in!!!
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