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Cartoon protester stirred race hate
The Times ^ | November 10, 2006 | Stewart Tendler

Posted on 11/10/2006 1:19:40 AM PST by Mrs Ivan

A website designer was convicted yesterday of stirring up racial hatred during a protest by Muslims over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.

Mizanur Rahman, of Palmers Green, North London, carried placards that called for non-Muslims to be “annihilated” and “beheaded” as he addressed more than 300 protesters outside the Danish Embassy in London on February 3.

Rahman, 23, who wore white robes and a cap throughout the five-day trial, claimed that he had got “carried away” in front of the crowd and said he was a “nobody” whose words no one would take seriously, the Old Bailey was told.

The protest came as part of a worldwide reaction to the publication of the cartoons in a Danish newspaper the previous September and then reprinted in French, Spanish and German newspapers.

Rahman was filmed brandishing two placards as the crowd left Regent’s Park Mosque and made its way through Central London to the Danish Embassy in Sloane Street, Knightsbridge.

The placards read “Annihilate those who insult Islam” and “Behead those who insult Islam” Members of the “angry” and “volatile” crowd of men, women and children also held up other placards.

Outside the Danish Embassy, Rahman was also filmed addressing the crowd through a loudhailer. He made references to the Mujahidin and called for the destruction of British and American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was heard to say: “We don’t want to see them in Baghdad, in Iraq any more. We want to see them coming home in body bags.

“We want to see their blood running in the streets of Baghdad. We want to see the Mujahidin shoot down their planes like we shoot down birds.” He told the crowd: “We want to see their tanks burn just like we burn their flags. We want to see them and their freedoms destroyed. We want to see all of them removed from our Muslim lands.” He went on: “They don’t deserve to live, they don’t deserve anything in this world. Oh Allah, we want to see another 9/11 in Iraq, another 9/11 in Denmark, another 9/11 in Spain, in France, all over Europe. Oh Allah, destroy all of them.”

Rahman then ended his speech chanting along with the crowd. “There is only one God Allah, Muhammad is his messenger. Bomb bomb France, bomb bomb France, nuke nuke France, nuke nuke France.”

David Perry QC, prosecuting, told the court that the right to freedom of speech and expression and to peacefully protest did not stretch to the right to encourage or incite others to murder. He told the jury that it was not a trial of Islam but of the words Rahman had used.

The words were unambiguous; they were “ordinary English words with ordinary English meaning - kill.”

The jury could not agree on a second charge of inciting murder and the Crown Prosecution Service will say on Monday whether it will seek a retrial.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: camelsnose; cartoonjihad; cartoons; enemywithin; eurabia; fifthcolumn; islam; jihad; koranimals; london; londonistan; mizanur; mizanurrahman; mohammadcartoons; rahman; religionofbeheadings; rop; swine; uk; wot
Little bastards - my bus went directly past this protest.

The article doesn't mention the sentence - I could suggest a few.

1 posted on 11/10/2006 1:19:41 AM PST by Mrs Ivan
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To: Mrs Ivan

Nice comments.


2 posted on 11/10/2006 1:22:14 AM PST by kinoxi
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To: Mrs Ivan

I want to smack em...


3 posted on 11/10/2006 1:27:17 AM PST by kinoxi
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To: Mrs Ivan
Mizanur Rahman, of Palmers Green, North London

What a pity. I lived in Palmers Green as a child before we emigrated to America. I suppose it's full of these howling savages now, eh?


Would these be the same filthy vermin?

Bring back the rope, I say.

-ccm

4 posted on 11/10/2006 1:29:38 AM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: Mrs Ivan

So much for the 'religion of peace'...jeezy peezy!!!

5 posted on 11/10/2006 1:34:31 AM PST by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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To: Mrs Ivan
We ought to reinstate the practice of hanging traitors, dear.

Love, Ivan

6 posted on 11/10/2006 1:35:41 AM PST by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: Mrs Ivan

Youth is wasted on youth..........


7 posted on 11/10/2006 1:37:26 AM PST by kipita (Conservatives: Freedom and Responsibility???Liberals: Freedom from Responsibility)
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To: Mrs Ivan

I say they should lock Mizanur Rahman up in a cell lined with strips of bacon, with cartoon pictures of Muhammed (poop be upon him) hanging on every available space.

But then, I'm just a nobody, and nobody listens to me!


8 posted on 11/10/2006 1:42:15 AM PST by Theresawithanh (Every time I hear the word "exercise", I wash my mouth out with chocolate.)
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To: Mrs Ivan

Mizanur Rahman
9 posted on 11/10/2006 1:58:16 AM PST by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: Mrs Ivan

These Islamonazis should have remembered that in Europe, the only ones you can safely direct their hatred against is Joooos. Not only would they not be arrested, the Jew-hating media in Europe and the EU would make heroes out of them.


10 posted on 11/10/2006 1:59:00 AM PST by fireman43
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To: Mrs Ivan

These Islamonazis should have remembered that in Europe, the only ones you can safely direct their hatred against is Joooos. Not only would they not be arrested, the Jew-hating media in Europe and the EU would make heroes out of them.


11 posted on 11/10/2006 1:59:29 AM PST by fireman43
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To: All

ON THE NET...

http://www.truthusa.com/MoreThanCartoons.html


12 posted on 11/10/2006 2:02:11 AM PST by Cindy
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To: Mrs Ivan

"We want to see all of them removed from our Muslim lands.” -- said the muslim in Christian land


13 posted on 11/10/2006 3:33:49 AM PST by sbMKE
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To: Mrs Ivan

Make an example of this vile critter. One year in prison or deportation if he prefers. These Jihadi welfare bums love living in Europe!!! They are as employable as a kid with a Mohawk and rings through his lips and eyebrows


14 posted on 11/10/2006 3:38:23 AM PST by dennisw ("For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks-- Matt. 12:34)
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To: ccmay
If the guy was smart, he would have done this at the house of the President of Princeton, that way, it would have been protected as free speech.
15 posted on 11/10/2006 4:10:53 AM PST by NavVet (O)
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To: Mrs Ivan

Clean your hunting guns. It might get ruff over there.


16 posted on 11/10/2006 4:16:37 AM PST by bmwcyle (The snake is loose in the garden and Eve just bit the apple.)
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To: Mrs Ivan

This is great news (+ you are on a roll today Ma'am!)

Incitement! Thank God it's (still) punished with a prison term in the UK.

As another FReeper has mentioned, in the US it is rewarded with tenure.


17 posted on 11/10/2006 4:19:47 AM PST by agere_contra
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To: Mrs Ivan

I am heartened that at least some measure of justice is being served to these animals. Ideally, everyone in that protest would be given a one-way ticket to Pakistan.


18 posted on 11/10/2006 5:30:36 AM PST by Sender ("Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything." -Mark Twain)
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