From the Daily Mail
A British Muslim has shown ‘no remorse’ after desecrating a town’s war memorial with extremist Islamic slogans, a court has heard.
But the Crown Prosecution Service has decided that graffiti proclaiming future world domination for Islam, glorifying Osama Bin Laden and calling for the assassination of the British Prime Minister, ‘was not religiously or racially motivated’.
Tohseef Shah, 21, admitted a charge of criminal damage to the memorial, outside Burton College in Burton on Trent, when he appeared at Burton Magistrates Court.
Islamic message: Tohseef Shah’s graffiti ‘Islam will dominate the world’ was not religiously motivated, according to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Shah admitted spraying the words ‘Islam will dominate the world – Osama is on his way’ and ‘Kill Gordon Brown’ on the plinth of the East Staffordshire Borough Council-owned memorial, on December 10 last year.
He was given a two-year conditional discharge and was ordered to pay £500 compensation to the council, plus £85 costs.
Prosecutor Andrew Bodger said information about Shah and photographs of the graffiti were sent to CPS headquarters in London, for a review by senior lawyers.
They found there was insufficient evidence that the criminal act was racially or religiously motivated – which could have led to a more serious charges and a harsher sentence.
The graffiti was discovered by a council street cleaning manager, who reported the incident and photographed the damage.
The pictures of the desecration were shown in court.
CCTV footage showed two figures spraying the slogans on the memorial. Although they could not be clearly identified, the footage showed one of the vandals discarding the spray can.
Shah, Horninglow, Staffordshire, has no previous convictions.
He was later identified from DNA on the spray can and admitted his actions.
Mr Bodger said: ‘Shah wouldn’t give an explanation as to why he had done it and had shown no remorse for this very sensitive matter.
‘The words were cleaned off without difficulty at a cost of £500.
‘The CPS specialist unit was sent the pictures, as well as his mobile phone records, to see if there was a racially or religiously motivated connotation.
‘It was decided there was not enough evidence to prove this, and they decided it was politically motivated. It has caused great offence to the community.’
Defending solicitor Mumtaz Chaudry dismissed any belief that Shah held extremist views.
He said: ‘This is nothing to do with his religious beliefs, his family’s beliefs or his cultural beliefs. He is just an ordinary guy.
‘He is remorseful but, at the time of his interview, he was simply answering questions and didn’t realise that was the right time to show remorse.
‘He has no extremist views, his action doesn’t help the bad reaction in the community.
‘It was uncalled for, but we make mistakes. It was a stupid mistake and he is determined not to repeat it.’
Presiding magistrate Vivien Patterson told Shah: ‘This was a mistake, but I hope this is the first and last mistake you will make.
‘Although the damage is in the lower band, we view this in the upper end because it was highly visible to the community, in the town centre.
‘Your conditional discharge for two years means if you come back here again for another offence, you will be charged with this offence too.’
this grattiti is from some one who had some arabs work on him way back. Before he was born in fact. He already had the arab treatment and he he wants to give it to others. He is already a loser and he wants to create more losers. However, British troops are in the Iraq and Afghanistan and they are not there for the first time. They do not give in to arabs or people conquered by them.
The mere existence of such collaborators in our judicial systems is frightening and infuriating beyond description.
Islam is a political ideology, so I would have to agree with the judge.
Of course you maybe could argue the judge is correct in his appreciation, if you want to approach this on a sterile academic level. The article states that the judge also judged it not to be racially motivated. More obscurantist statements to agree upon, anyone?
Good point. Islamists hate all kafirs, regardless of race.
Well, if you create a Facebook group calling for mahoundians to be kicked out of Wales, you’ll end up in prison in the UK. If a mahoundian creates such a group calling for the murder of non-mahoundians, I suppose the overwhelming majority of British “judges” will say that it should be allowed in the name of free speech and no one should be arrested for it.
As evidenced by that recent judicial decision stating that shoe-throwing by mahoundians isn’t vandalism or crime, but a perfectly legal form of “ritual protest” (regardless of whom or what gets hit by those shoes), I suppose the UK will eventually adopt a third answer to that question of how a defendant ought to plea to any given charges in a court of law: guilty, innocent or muslim* (which, according to the British “justice” system, basically means above the law.)
* Borrowed from an article at Family Security Matters, entitled How do you plead? Guilty or innocent? I plead muslim, regarding the decision by Arizona prosecutors not to seek the death penalty for Faleh Hassan Almaleki over the dishonor killing of its (not his) daughter, Noor Almaleki. The reason for that? It wouldn’t go down well with mahoundians if they saw Christians convict and execute a mahoundian through their secular law system.
The court was right, but for the wrong reasons.
People tend to think that Islam is a religion like any other religion. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Islam is more of a political ideology than a religion and needs to be seen as such.
What would have happened if the grafitti had been pro-Nazi during WWII? Or pro-Communist during the Cold War?
We would have seen a different outcome.
Its time that the west sees Islam in the same light that we saw the Nazis and the Communists during those times. Regardless of the fact that it covers more than half the globe and encompasses diverse cultures and languages, it is a political system covered with a thin layer of religion. All power rises to the top in Islam, hidden by (ironically) veils of authority and the wealth of OPEC.
Islam has been rising for decades, and it poised to strike with conventional weapons against Israel and southern Europe soon. It also has huge fifth columns ready to strike within major European cities to advance the Islamist agenda of world conquest, just as there were once Red Brigades and anarchists in those same cities not too long ago.
May the west prevail and Islam fall.
Kufar and proud.
Does this mean that it really isn’t racist to talk about Islam?
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NOT RELIGIOUSLY MOTIVATED OR RACIALLY MOTIVATED? SO IF I DESECRATE A MOSQUE WITH THE WORDS CHRISTIANS WILL DOMINATE, THEN I WON’T GET IN TROUBLE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGG FUCK !!!!