A shop owner has been forced to deny links to military group Isis after she became the victim of a hate campaign.
Jill Campbell, who has run Isis Boutique in Malvern, Worcester, for seven years, issued a statement after passersby and people on social media claimed she was sponsoring the extremist group.
The 54-year-old said: ‘I overheard another couple talking about the name last weekend. The woman said to her partner, “look that shop’s called Isis”. He said in return: “they’re the ones who have been beheading everybody”’.
Mrs Campbell, who has written in desperation to several media organisations to ask them to stop using the name Isis, has received threats from Facebook users saying they would send her letter bombs if she did not change the shop’s name.
The divorced mother-of-two said she has had to postpone opening a new shop in the Cotswolds because she has to first persuade customers she does not support the Islamic group.
She added: ‘I came up with the name because the river in Oxford is named locally as Isis, and it is also the Egyptian goddess of magic, mystique, beauty and femininity which is everything the shop is all about.
‘I have absolutely no sympathy with these monsters in Syria and it is for very innocent reasons that we chose the name.’
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