Friday, January 05, 2007

And The Difference Between Being A Subject And A Citizen...


"A British Muslim has been found guilty of soliciting murder during a London rally against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad.

Umran Javed 27, of Birmingham, was also convicted of stirring up racial hatred by a jury at the Old Bailey.

Javed told a crowd of hundreds at the February 2006 protest: "Bomb, bomb Denmark, bomb, bomb USA."

He had claimed the chants against the two countries were "just slogans" and that he regretted saying them.

Remanding him in custody, Judge Brian Barker said he would not pass sentence until several other trials relating to the protest had concluded - expected to be in April.

The maximum penalty for soliciting murder is life in prison.

The Crown Prosecution Service's Sue Hemming said she was mindful of the rights to free speech when considering cases such as this.

"However, when we examined the content of Mr Javed's speech it was explicit that there was direct encouragement to those present and those watching via the media to commit acts of murder against the Danish and Americans."

She said the law was also clear that free speech "should not be misused to insult, abuse or threaten people in such a way that it will stir up racial hatred".

Anjem Choudary, a former spokesman for the now banned Al-Muhajiroun organisation, said Muslims were treated as "second class citizens" and could not get a "fair trial".

He said: "Muslims are demonised and vilified.

"This is a failure of capitalism, of democracy and the freedom of speech."

Well dayum, hoss. The Brits are socialists, kneel before a Queen, and diluted their "freedom of speech" to begin with just so's you moslems would get a fair shake while being vilified by every civilized person in the UK. You want a capitalist democracy then apply for US citizenship. Then you can criticize with some semblance of legitimacy.

We might detest your ideas down to our subatomic particles, Anjem, but you are allowed to open your big mouth and slogan away to your black heart's content. Now for chrissake go have some bacon and chill.

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