Well. This is how the story goes.
About 2 weeks ago, an environmental health officer turned up on the doorstep of the house where some of our staff live. Three of them are Indian and one English. They had received a 'complaint' that there were loads of people living in the house, and that they were all foreign and 'undesirable'. There are 4 people living in the four-bedroomed house and, on seeing that there was no problem, the officer went away, satisfied that conditions were good and the home sanitary and well-kept.
On Sunday morning at about 4am, DH's boss got an anonymous call threatening him. An 'I know where you live. I'm going to cut you and all your family. You've got the Taliban working for you, over here to blow up our buses' etc etc. Now, he's a big bloke and well able to handle himself, but did the right thing and called the police as it was obviously racially motivated.
Last night at 10.40pm, DH got a call from one of the Indian staff to say there was a problem with someone outside the house. DH leapt into action and got straight round there with his boss whilst I called the police who were already aware of the situation. By the time he got there, the front window had a brick through it, and (luckily) one of the bedrooms had had a brick thrown at the window, but it had hit the frame and not the glass.
I am just so shocked at this. These men are so polite and friendly. They work hard and are already enduring the fact that they have had to leave their wives and families in India just to earn a decent living. They could not offend anyone if they tried, and it makes me very depressed to think that there are knuckle-draggers out there, not just ready to pounce on them for their race, but actively planning to do so. Instead of plotting against them, they should be looking up to them as to what a decent, honest and hard-working person looks like. Makes me really . Just had to rant, really.