Luton prides itself as being home to people of different cultures, ethnicities and faiths where we all live together with respect and harmony.

Once a year we have the Annual Shia Procession through Bury Park that is deeply sectarian, offensive and uncivilised.  Self-flagellation and chest beating scares, offends and frightens members of the local community.

It is against the spirit of multiculturalism and tolerance we have been enjoying in Luton for the past 30 years. 

We the people of Luton wish to pressure the Local Council and Police to put an end to these processions that inconvenience local businesses and residents.

This procession fuels the flames of sectarianism that have wreaked havoc in parts of the world such as Pakistan, Iraq and Syria.