Seven Muslim protesters accused of screaming insults at soldiers during an Iraq homecoming parade refused to stand for a judge yesterday.
The men are alleged to have shouted ‘murderers’, ‘rapists’, ‘terrorists’ and ‘baby killers’ while waving placards at the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment marching through Luton.
At the town’s magistrates’ court, they denied using threatening, abusive, insulting words and behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm and distress to others.
After refusing to stand they were threatened with being found in contempt of court by a clearly angry District Judge Carolyn Mellanby.
They insisted it was a ‘grave and cardinal sin’ to show anyone other than Allah respect by standing.
Eventually, a compromise was reached where they would enter the court after her during the trial, which is expected to last six days. The maximum penalty each of the men can receive is a £1,000 fine.
The defendants were given an extra 20 minutes on top of their lunch break to go to pray at a mosque a few minutes’ walk away.
A separate ‘quiet’ room has been set aside for their regular prayer intervals for the rest of the week. The seven accused men are Munin Abdul, 28, Jalal Ahmed, 21, Jabair Ahmed, 19, Yousaf Bashir, 29, Shajjadar Choudhury, 31, Ziaur Rahman, 32, and white Muslim Ibrahim Anderson, 32, all from Luton.
They are alleged to have chanted: ‘British army murderers’, ‘British soldiers burn in hell’ and ‘Baby killers shame on you’.
Trouble flared on March 10 last year as the regiment – known as the Poachers – marched to a meeting with the Duke of Gloucester, the regiment’s colonel-in-chief, and local dignitaries in Luton town centre.
They had just returned from a second tour of duty in Iraq, and had previously fought in Afghanistan. The battalion has lost 12 soldiers in both campaigns. The soldiers are based in Germany, but Bedfordshire is one of the regiment’s main recruiting grounds.
Avirup Chaudhuri, prosecuting, said a group of peaceful anti-war protesters arranged with the police that they would assemble at a specific point on the route, but a splinter group went elsewhere to voice dissent.
When their abusive protest started there was a furious reaction from members of the public. Although the chants were aimed at the regiment, it is the members of the public supporting them that the prosecution say were caused alarm and distress.
Mr Chaudhuri said police twice had to form a barrier around the protesters to protect them. At one point it is alleged pieces of bacon were thrown at the Muslims while there were shouts of ‘go and have a shave’ and ‘Bin Laden’s wife is a whore’.
The court heard that defendant Bashir had suffered two attacks on his home since the protests. In one of these his car was firebombed and completely burnt out.
Despite the nature of the allegations against them the seven men did not appear in the dock because they are not charged with an imprisonable offence and are not in custody. When they refused to stand, Judge Mellanby said: ‘It is procedure that all people stand when I come into court. I am asking them to defer to conventional practices in respect to the court. I’m not asking them to stand for me.’
Neil Mercer, defending Abdul and Rahman, said: ‘In Muslim countries it is a grave and cardinal sin to show respect in this way to anyone other than God himself. Their reasons would be the same if it was the Queen, with respect.’
He added: ‘It is an important religious observance which, if they break, they find themselves in mortal sin. They cannot make a show of respect to a human being, whoever that human being is, whether it is the Queen or the Lord Chief Justice or an imam.’
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Wow!! What a fantastic post! Nothing could be more true and the sooner the rest of the world “GETS IT”,the better off we all are. Thank you for your comment.
Noted; thank you.
“A can a week is all we ask…”
Thank you for the supporting fire.
Time to End the Reign of the Guest Worker
These subhuman Muslims should be rounded up and put in detention camps, for they a direct threat to the host country and they are clearly enemy combatants, within the gates of any nation which admits them.
These interlopers, who feed on the white race as a parasite, must neither be entertained nor endured to any degree.
The definition of “subhuman,” is someone who blows up an airliner, or saws off a person’s head with a dull knife, while they are still alive.
Any person who fails to fathom this definition, is a politically correct ostrich, with his head stuffed in the sand.
What Western nations need to understand about Islam and Muslims, is that they are inassimilable to the national body of the host nation, and must be dealt with in the harshest manner imaginable, NOT handled with kid gloves.
They do not come to assimilate–as if there were even such a thing–but to supplant the denizens of the host country. Muslims are a cancer on the national life of all nations, which entertain notions of civility and progress for the alleged “family of man.”
It is time to end the thousand year-old slog between Crusader and jihadist. There can be no peaceful coexistence with these fanatics. They must be destroyed, and their religious centers blasted to smithereens, for the final reckoning.
They are an alien interloper, bent on conquest in the name of their bloodthirsty god.
The answer to this clash of civilizations is the complete extermination of all Muslims who threaten Western Civilization.
The only thing these “people” understand is the sword and flame. They do not understand courts of law, as fanaticism is their highest court.
Muslims are the most virulent form of fanatic known to the history of mankind. They make Nazi werewolves and Japanese Kamikaze pilots look tame in comparison. Nazis and Japanese emperor worshippers NEVER killed their own family members, the way Muslims do.
If Western countries allow themselves to be destroyed by the international bankers, by continuing to submit to the unwitting third world corporate shock troop, known as “guest worker,” they will soon see the concept of the nation-state disappear entirely.
The guest worker now plagues both hemispheres of the planet, and should be sent home, to live under his own Sharia law, not that of a superior civilization, which has entered a new millennium age of enlightenment.
Let the Muslim be left to his own dank dungeons of human thought–if he is so unhappy that he cannot “fit in”– and segregated entirely from Western man and advanced transport services, beyond the camel.
http://www.islamrevealed.com. ‘Nuff said.