(UK:) Four men jailed over cartoon demo

news.bbc.co.uk ^ | 07/18/2007 | news.bbc.co.uk

[WesternCulture]

Four men jailed over cartoon demo

Javed, Muhid, Saleem and Rahman had denied holding extremist views Four Muslim men have been jailed for their part in protests at the Danish embassy in London, against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad. Mizanur Rahman, 24, Umran Javed, 27, and Abdul Muhid, 24, were each jailed for six years for soliciting to murder after telling a crowd to bomb the UK.

A fourth man, Abdul Saleem, 32, was jailed for four years for stirring up racial hatred at the protest in 2006.

The men, from London and Birmingham, were convicted at the Old Bailey.

Judge Brian Barker said their words had been designed to encourage murder and terrorism.

[SengirV]

Talk about bad timing for them. Couldn’t happen to a nice bunch though.

[Kay Ludlow]

So they denied having extremist views... because wanting to see the streets run with blood isn’t extremist to them? Considering a cartoon to be such an insult to islam that UK soldiers should die over it isn’t extremist either? Some days, ya just gotta wonder.

[WesternCulture]

“So they denied having extremist views... because wanting to see the streets run with blood isn’t extremist to them? Considering a cartoon to be such an insult to islam that UK soldiers should die over it isn’t extremist either? Some days, ya just gotta wonder.”

- Their (non-extremist) interpretation of ‘The Religion of Peace’:

Kill anyone who says Islam is violent!