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An elderly man in the UK, Robin Clarke, has now been forced to leave Henrick Grange Care Home, where he had been staying for the past 16 months. He has mobility issues, and as of now, has nowhere to go where he can receive the same type of care. More on his plight, and what triggered it, can be found here: “Man claims he is being evicted from care home for anti-Islamic views,” by James Connell, Worcester News, August 18, 2025:
A frail 71-year-old care home resident with mobility issues said he is being evicted for expressing anti-Islamic views in posters he placed in his windows.
Robin Clarke claims he is being evicted from Henwick Grange Care Home in Hallow Road, St John’s, Worcester after putting up posters in the windows of his bedroom criticising the religion….
However, a spokesperson for the care home, managed by Bondcare, said staff can no longer meet his needs….
What “needs” of Mr. Clarke can no longer be met by the staff? No one at Henwick Grange will say. Could it be that his “need” to express his critical opinion of Islam cannot be “met” — that is, allowed expression — by the care home, because Muslims on the staff were offended and wanted him silenced?
He had to leave his previous flat a because it was unsuitable for someone with his disability. He can’t return to it safely.
The pensioner said he feels the move is an attempt to ‘silence or censor him’.
“It’s effectively an eviction notice. They say they can no longer meet my needs but they have not yet explained what needs.
“I think there’s very little doubt about what the real reason is.
It is the posters he put in his window criticizing Islam that have led to his eviction. Of this neither he, or we, can have any doubt.
“They have tried to find a legal excuse and this is the nearest they could come up with,” he said.
The posters, which he and a friend have since taken down, were in the window of his room and he said could be seen from the yard but not the road.
He said he has reported it to police but they said it is a civil matter.
Mr Clarke said: “It’s not that Muslims are bad people. The intention was to silence me but they haven’t succeeded. I fight for free speech.”…
He is more than a tad too forgiving in insisting that “it’s not that Muslims are bad people” just because they took such offense at his views to demand, and get, his expulsion from the care home. Clearly, in their inculcated belief that non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings,” that Muslims, on the other hand, are “the best of peoples,” that Jews and Christians must not be taken as friends “for they are friends only with each other,” that — as Muhammad said — Islam “is to dominate and not to be dominated,” they are a menace to the non-Muslims among whom they have come to live. Even though Mr. Clarke took down the posters, that was not enough to place the complaining Muslims; they wanted him out, period.
He is being punished — expelled from Henwick Grange despite his disability, only for expressing his thoughts on Islam. This surely qualifies as “harsh discrimination,” as he says, against him; his only offense was his daring to place a poster or two critical of Islam in his bedroom window, so small that they were not even visible from the street.
Lisa Cliff, the home manager, said: “We are unable to comment on the specifics of this or any matter relating to care provision.
“However, our first concern is the wellbeing of our residents and of course our staff, and it has become clear that Henwick Grange is no longer able to meet the needs of Mr Clarke.”
This is disingenuous. Has the wellbeing of Mr. Clarke been given any thought at all by those running the care home? Surely not. He sounds desperate, suddenly being turned out with no place else to go. But what about Lisa Cliff’s mention of the “wellbeing of our staff”? I would guess that that staff includes a number of Muslims, and that they were offended by Clarke’s posters in his bedroom window, in which he criticized — we don’t know in what terms — Islam. Those staff members complained, and instead of being told his views were none of their business, and that he had a right to his modest expression of dismay at what Islam taught, or how its votaries in the UK behaved, It was Clarke who was punished by being expelled from Henwick Grange. In the UK, criticism of Islam has yet not been completely banned. But we are getting to that point. Ask Robin Clarke.