THEN WE’LL JOIN HANDS AND SING “CANDLE IN THE WIND” TO THEM IN ARABIC

Police chief launches 'solidarity' ribbon (Duncan Gardham, The Telegraph, August 12th, 2005)

A Chief Constable is asking his 4,000 officers to wear green ribbons, the traditional colour of Islam, to show solidarity with Muslims after the London bomb attacks.

Steve Green, of Nottinghamshire police, also wants the public to adopt the ribbon to support Muslims "being held hostage by fear".

The force has seen a 50 per cent rise in racial and religiously motivated crime since July 7 and Mr Green said non-Muslims had asked him how they could show their support. The force has ordered 20,000 ribbons at a cost of £2,000.

The idea was welcomed by Dr Musharraf Hussain, imam of Nottingham's largest mosque and a senior member of the Muslim Council of Britain, as "a wonderful gesture".

Nothing wrong with the ribbon for those into that sort of thing. Everything wrong with its coming from the police.