Posted on 10/27/2014 7:11:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A British pensioner who quipped "I'm not a Muslim" when asked to remove his shoes at airport security spent more than six months with a criminal charge of racism hanging over him, before the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case just one day before it was due in court. Paul Griffith, who was flying from Stansted Airport in Essex, has described the experience as "incredibly stressful", the Daily Mail has reported.
Griffith, 75, was on his way to Malaga, Spain, for a week’s holiday when he set off the scanners on his way through security at Stansted Airport earlier this year. He was pulled aside and asked to remove his shoes, at which point he remarked "I'm not a Muslim, am I?" The security guard accused him of racism and called the police, telling them that he had been upset by the remark. After taking him to an office to be interviewed, the police allowed him to continue on his journey only to arrest him a week later as he was passing back through the airport.
"One minute I am queuing up to get on a plane and the next I am confronted by two armed policemen. They said I had used racist language and took me to an office in the terminal," Mr Griffith explained.
"When I got back I had to wait six hours before they interviewed me again, arrested me and said that was being charged with causing racially aggravated harassment. I was photographed, had my finger prints taken and they also took a DNA swab from my mouth. Then they said I would have to go to my local police station.....
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Saying you are not a Muslim is racism! You see, Muslim is a RACE. Also, you are not allowed to deny you are Muslim. You must profess your love for Islam and Allah, or be branded a RACIST and sentenced to PRISON and DEATH.
“He was pulled aside and asked to remove his shoes, at which point he remarked “I’m not a Muslim, am I?” The security guard accused him of racism and called the police, telling them that he had been upset by the remark.”
This is like something from a science fiction novel.
I bet this is one more pensioner who will be voting UKIP.
Of what persuasion has every hijacker been in the past 15 years? Oh yeah MUSLIM...............
Be careful - calling muslims cuckoo stupid is a crime of racism and is a hate crime too!
Obola denies he is Muslim, but nothing happens to him. Well, he is the messiah on his way to the virgins - oh wait, never mind ......
Hey England! I hope you are overrun with bearded subhuman savages who make you all bow down in submission and make your queen pay the jizya! You deserve it!
Not to mention that it is unfair and derogatory to the real cuckoo.
State sponsored “terrorism” against the truth.
The guns from the US were given to the ‘Home Guard’, after the HG was stood down, the arms were melted down for UK war production, NOT tossed in the sea as this stupid postwar myth has it.
We needed all the materials we could get, common sense alone will tell you that the idea we’d toss hundreds/thousands of pieces of metal into the sea is nonsense.
Of course, if I was to say anything similar in return, I would be an anti-American snobby eurotrash bigot.
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