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Rod Stewart 'could have broken strict UAE laws' with mock ISIS execution video
Mirror ^ | 3-2-17 | Tom Bryant, Steve White, Chris Kitching

Posted on 03/03/2017 6:42:02 PM PST by Angels27

Sir Rod Stewart could be in breach of strict cyber-crime laws after he was filmed seeming to mimic a beheading in a video. Legal experts have warned the United Arab Emirates' laws forbid people from inciting religious contempt, discrimination or hatred.

Radha Stirling, legal consultant for Detained in Dubai, said: “I can cite precedents where they have put people in prison for lesser crimes than this.” The families of killer Jihadi John ’s victims have branded the singer “disgusting”.

The singer has offered his “deepest apologies”, but said his actions in the Abu Dhabi desert were “misinterpreted”.

The singer, 72, was filmed forcing a male friend to kneel in front of him, then holding his hair and making a cutting motion across his throat.

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To: DJ Frisat

Beheading is part of their branding so any depiction is copyright infringement.


21 posted on 03/03/2017 7:56:51 PM PST by kallisti (Both soliloquized alternately and imagined they were conversing)
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To: wardamneagle

Cool. Rod seems to be one of the more level headed ones.

CC


22 posted on 03/03/2017 7:57:07 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Angels27

But I thought ISIS was NOT Islamic.


23 posted on 03/04/2017 2:27:43 AM PST by Redmen4ever
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