Woman nabbed by Thames Valley Police for Islamophobic Facebook post 'banning Muslims from her beauty salon'

A beauty salon owner has been arrested  by the police for making Islamophobic post her salon Facebook Page in the wake of the Paris terror attacks by allegedly saying she won't be taking bookings from Muslims.

According to Thames Valley Police , a 43-year-old woman was arrested under section 19 of the Public Order Act.
Section 19 relates to "the display of written material which is threatening, abusive or insulting with the intention of stirring up racial hatred, and for producing malicious communications."

According to Mirror, the woman a proprietor of Oxfordshire at-home salon Blinks of Bicester is know locally as April Major. She has not as yet been charged with an offence.

The post on the Facebook page of Blinks of Bicester, was: "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."

Allegedly, another post read: "I have been inundated with messages tonight as I said I would not book any muslim [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."

All the posts were later deleted.


Police in their statement maintained "We take all such complaints seriously and will investigate."