For the latest Stockport news sign up to the MyStockport newsletter here A Muslim man has blasted Stockport council after it cordoned off an Islamic section of Mill Lane Cemetery during Eid.
Mohammed Mustafa, a solicitor, went to visit the plot on Thursday morning (May 13) to see his departed father, who is buried in the graveyard.
But when he arrived, tree works being carried out by council staff members meant much of the section was closed off to the public. “I am very upset,” Mohammed, 66, told the Manchester Evening News . “It is the holiest day in the Muslim calendar and we went to visit my father in our graveyard. “To my horror and dismay they had sectioned off a sizeable part of the Muslim area. “It is totally and utterly
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