Sunday, July 31, 2011

Muslim teenagers convicted of criminal damage after spraying burkas onto scantily-clad models in Lynx poster Read more:


Two Muslim teenagers have admitted defacing advertising hoardings featuring scantily-clad models and painting a 'burka' over them because they offended their religious views.

Mohammed Hasnath and Muhammed Tahir, both 18, used black paint to cover up the picture of a female model on a hoarding advertising Lynx deodorant.

The duo proceeded to paint over the faces on several other advertisements around London's East End, claiming it was a 'sin' for them to be uncovered. 

'We wanted to do good': Mohammed Hasnath outside Thames Magistrates Court where he was charged with six counts of criminal damage'We wanted to do good': Mohammed Tahir outside Thames Magistrates Court where he was charged with six counts of criminal damage
The youths, who represented themselves, had both denied initial charges of religious aggravated criminal damage.

However, they both pleaded guilty to six counts of criminal damage when they appeared at Thames Magistrates Court in east London.

Taiwo Akinrowo, prosecuting, told the court: 'On the morning of February 26th this year a member of the public called the police because they had seen three males damaging the bus shelters.

'One of the males was seen to paint on the female angel in the advert for Lynx. On the other side was an advert for the film 'Drive Angry' and this male was seen to paint on the female image next to Nicholas Cage.

'Police were called and began to monitor the males and they saw them walking along Whitechapel Road towards Osborne Street where they then used the paint on the window of the Money Shop on the faces of the females.

Revealing: Tahir and Hasnath defaced a Lynx poster similar to this one which shows model Kelly Brook
They were then stopped by police, arrested and interviewed they gave full and frank admissions as to what they had done
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'They told them that the way the women had been photographed was against their religion and they said it was a sin in Islam for a male to look twice at a woman who is not covered.

'If a man looks at a woman the first time it could be accidental, but if they look again it is a sin and they did not want children and other people seeing the image of these woman who were not covered.

'Consequently they began to paint over burkas around the faces of the women. When arrested, Mr Hasnath's clothes were covered in black paint and they also had the brushes on them.


 
'Both have admitted painting over them. At first, they did not think it was a bad thing to do but they accept that it was not legal because it was not their property.
'The defendants had the option on the first appearance to plead guilty to the simple matter and they did not.'

Referring to the fact that the charges were originally religious aggravated criminal damage, Hasnath told the court: 'We don't have anything against anyone.

'We have black friends, white friends and Chinese friends. We are not racist.

'The pictures - that is someone's daughter. If someone was to look at our wife or mother or daughter with a bad intention we would not like it so we were just trying to do good.'

Hasnath, of Poplar, and Tahir, of Tower Hamlets, both east London, were both ordered to pay costs of £283 each and were each released on a 12 month conditional discharge.

A third defendant, Abdul Hakim Langaigne, 24, of Thamesmead, south east London, who was also charged with six counts of criminal damage, failed to appear in court.


 A warrant was issued for his arrest. 

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Muslim encouraged jihadis to attack MPs


A judge launched a blistering attack on a British Muslim extremist yesterday, branding him 'a viper in our midst' and 'a corrosively dangerous threat' to the democratic process.

Jailing Bilal Zaheer Ahmad for 12 years, Mr Justice Royce said he was sending out a 'loud and clear' warning that Britain would not tolerate extremists preaching messages of hate and violence.

Ahmad, 24, who called on Muslims to murder MPs who supported the Iraq war, was the first person to be found guilty of inciting religious hatred under new laws banning the publication of inflammatory material.

The IT worker from Wolverhampton exhorted others to 'raise the knife of jihad' after a female Islamic extremist was jailed for trying to murder a Labour MP at his constituency surgery.

The judge told Ahmad: 'You purport to be a British citizen, but what you stand for is totally alien to what we stand for in our country.

'You became a viper in our midst willing to go to as far as possible to strike at the heart of our system.'

Anti-terrorist police welcomed the heavy sentence and said those tempted to incite others to violence should heed the warning. Ahmad was prosecuted under laws that ban the publication of material aimed at stirring up religious hatred.

The IT worker praised 21-year-old university student Roshonara Choudhry as a 'heroine' for stabbing Stephen Timms in east London in May last year.
 
    He left a ranting message on the U.S.-based website RevolutionMuslim.com, a day after Choudhry was jailed for life six months later.

    Ahmad called on other Muslims to follow in her footsteps by attacking and killing politicians who had voted to support the war in Iraq.

    He posted a full list of MPs and provided an internet link to their personal contact details, suggesting constituency surgeries were a good place to 'encounter them in person'.

    The university graduate even posted a link to a supermarket website that listed cheap knives for sale, urging followers to use them in attacks.

    Ahmad also published Islamic writings claiming it is the duty of Muslims to carry out violent jihad and become martyrs to the faith.

    The final words of his entry offered prayers to jihadi fighters in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and 'in Parliament'. 

    Investigators discovered Ahmad also posted messages about Choudhry's actions on the social network Facebook and the website of a free newspaper.

    On Facebook, he wrote: 'This sister has put us men to shame. We should be doing this.'
    On the newspaper website, he said Mr Timms 'got let off lightly'.

    He added: 'Roshonara Choudhry is a heroine. Free Roshonara Choudhry and give her a medal for justice.' 

    The extremist website was quickly shut down and police traced Ahmad to his home in Dunstall, Wolverhampton, where he was arrested in his car.

    He told officers he 'shouldn't have let my emotions get away from  me' and his comments were 'tongue in cheek'.


    The court heard Ahmad was first radicalised as a teenager after falling in with members of the now- banned organisation al-Muhajiroun at college.

    His lawyer said his family, some of whom attended court to see him jailed, were not religious and he was 'indoctrinated by others'.

    Using the names 'Bilal' and 'Abu Juhayman' when posting his extreme views online, he supported both al-Muhajiroun and Islam4UK before they were banned by the government.

    On Facebook, he posted a link to a YouTube video in which he said: 'My message to the West. You are all going to die.'
    Born in Warwickshire, Ahmad holds both British and Pakistani passports and at the time of his arrest was working for an insurance firm in Telford.

    Jailing Ahmad at Bristol Crown Court, Mr Justice Royce said:  'Politicians are often faced with difficult decisions. They don't always get it right.

    'They have to face up to serious criticism on occasions as part of the democratic process. The same can be said for bankers, press barons and judges.

    'It is important MPs can hold constituency surgeries without the threat of someone pulling out a knife and trying to kill them.

    'You were intent on striking at the heart of our democracy and if our politicians are to be at risk from those like you, then the message must go out loud and clear that this country will not tolerate such threats to its democratic processes.'

    Mr Timms suffered terrible injuries when he was attacked during a surgery in his East Ham constituency. Disturbed Choudhry, who plunged a six-inch kitchen knife into his stomach, was influenced by the radical sermons of Yemen-based preacher and Al Qaeda chief Anwar al-Awlaki.

    Mr Timms later called for tighter controls on extremist websites and incendiary material to protect other 'vulnerable young people' from 'going down the same road'.

    Detective Chief Superintendent Kenny Bell, of the West Midlands Police counter-terrorism unit, said the heavy sentence underlined how extremist messages would not be tolerated.

    He said: 'The sentence sends a very important message to anyone who is considering using the internet to publish their extremist ideology to encourage acts of violence.'



    This guy was actively calling upon Muslims to commit violence against members of Parliament. Once again, Pamela Geller said it best: "I anxiously await the same intense and extensive mainstream media coverage and obsession that we witnessed immediately after and in the ensuing days of the Norway massacre to determine the motivation behind this explosive plot at Fort Hood. I expect extremists Brian Williams, Anderson Cooper, the NY Times, LA Times, IHT, CNN, BBC, et al, to be just as rabidly obsessed and consumed with investigating what ideology incited this Muslim to recruit for jihad."
    Consider: why the double standard? A Norwegian psychopath cites the work of a number of people who point out a problem but have never remotely advocated violence as a solution to it, and suddenly these people are tarred in the international media as creating a climate of "hate" in which someone was inevitably going to "snap." And what follows is an international media firestorm investigating what inspired this killer, with the finger pointed squarely at anti-jihad writers. This demonization campaign dovetails nicely with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation's ongoing efforts to silence and criminalize honest discussion of how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence.
    So now Bilal Ahmad has an actual death list and calls forthrightly for the murder of MPs. Is anyone going to investigate what inspired him? No, because such an investigation would lead directly back to the Qur'an and Sunnah, and no one wants to go there.

    Thursday, July 28, 2011

    Judge Calls Muslim Rapists a 'Danger to Young White Girls'...


    TWO men who plied a vulner- able 16-year-old with drink and drugs before raping her have been jailed.
    Adil Iqbal also raped a 13-year- old girl on a separate occasion and Judge Timothy Clayson said he is a danger and gave him a sen- tence for public protection.
    It means he will serve seven- and-a-half years behind bars before he can be considered for parole — and must prove he is no longer a risk. Judge Clayson said he was a danger to young white girls.
    Mazar Latif, who raped the 16- year-old in a car after Iqbal had abused her in a flat, has been jailed for eight years.
    He will serve half the sentence in prison and the rest on licence in the community.
    Yesterday, the mothers of the two girls, who did not know each other, spoke of the impact the ordeal had on their daughters.
    The mother of the 13-year- old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: “My daughter is still having nightmares and is fright- ened to go out.
    “I wanted them both to be sent down forever, but we have got justice and now we will try to move on and help the girls and give them as normal a life as possible.”
    The mother of the 16-year- old added: “They have shown no remorse for what they have done.
    “This has had an horrific impact on both families.”
    Bolton Crown Court heard the 16-year-old had been drinking with friends and had a row with her mother on June 3 last year.
    Iqbal and Latif enticed her into their car in Manchester Road, and Iqbal gave her cocaine at a house and raped her when she was unable to fight him off.
    He put her back in the car, Latif drove her to a seclud- ed spot where he also raped her before letting her go.
    Two months later, a 13- year-old girl fell victim to Iqbal at a house she was vis- iting.
    When others left the room, he locked the door and raped her. Her ordeal only ended when her friend banged on the door, demanding to be let in.
    Iqbal, aged 25, of Anglia Grove, Daubhill, and Latif, aged 43, of Willows Lane, Deane, had both denied rape and were found guilty after a trial.
    Judge Clayson said: “There is very little mitiga- tion for either of you for this very serious offence.
    “In your case, Iqbal, the fact is you raped two young white females. I have no hesitation you pose a signif- icant risk to members of the public, especially young white females.
    “Latif, yours is a single offence of rape, which in itself is a serious offence.”

    Islamic extremists set up Sharia law controlled zones in British cities



    Strict: The posters warn passers-by that they are entering a zone where Islamic rules, such as 'no alcohol', are 'enforced'

    Strict: The posters warn passers-by that they are entering a zone where Islamic rules, such as 'no alcohol', are 'enforced'
    Islamic extremists have launched a poster campaign across the UK proclaiming areas where Sharia law enforcement zones have been set up.

    Communities have been bombarded with the posters, which read: ‘You are entering a Sharia-controlled zone – Islamic rules enforced.’

    The bright yellow messages daubed on bus stops and street lamps have already been seen across certain boroughs in London and order that in the ‘zone’ there should be ‘no gambling’, ‘no music or concerts’, ‘no porn or prostitution’, ‘no drugs or smoking’ and ‘no alcohol’.

    Hate preacher Anjem Choudary has claimed responsibility for the scheme, saying he plans to flood specific Muslim and non-Muslim communities around the UK and ‘put the seeds down for an Islamic Emirate in the long term’.

    In the past week, dozens of streets in the London boroughs of Waltham Forest, Tower Hamlets and Newham have been targeted, raising fears that local residents may be intimidated or threatened for flouting ‘Islamic rules’.

    Choudary, who runs the banned militant group Islam4UK, warned: ‘We now have hundreds if not thousands of people up and down the country willing to go out and patrol the streets for us and a print run of between 10,000 and 50,000 stickers ready for distribution.

    ‘There are 25 areas around the country which the Government has earmarked as areas where violent extremism is a problem.

    Seizing control: Activist Jamaal Uddin puts up one of the Sharia stickers in Leyton, in the East London borough of Waltham Forest
    Seizing control: Activist Jamaal Uddin puts up one of the Sharia stickers 
    Drink outlawed: Uddin places his poster on a lamppost outside the now defunct Oliver Twist pub in a part of Leyton in London
    Drink outlawed: Uddin places his poster on a lamppost

    ‘We are going to go to all these same areas and implement our own Sharia-controlled zones.
    ‘This is the best way for dealing with drunkenness and loutishness, prostitution and the sort of thug life attitude you get in British cities.’ 

    The former lawyer added: ‘This will mean this is an area where the Muslim community will not tolerate drugs, alcohol, pornography, gambling, usury, free mixing between the sexes – the fruits if you like of Western civilisation.

    ‘We want to run the area as a Sharia-controlled zone and really to put the seeds down for an Islamic Emirate in the long term.’

    Scotland Yard is now working with local councils to remove the posters and identify those responsible for putting them up.

    Choudary said he was organising a protest against the Far Right in Waltham Forest this weekend following last Friday’s killing spree in Norway by anti-Islamic gunman Anders Breivik.

    Sharia law zones set up in Britain
    He said: ‘We are going to put the events in Oslo on the agenda. We are going to be marching and addressing this issue. 

    It is a whole new scenario now. The Muslim community needs to be vigilant. There is an undercurrent against Islam.

    ‘I do believe a Norway-style attack could happen here.’

    The campaign comes just months after stickers proclaiming a ‘gay-free zone’ and appearing to reference the religious Islamic text of the Koran appeared in Tower Hamlets. 

    Women in parts of East London including Tower Hamlets have been threatened with violence and even death by Islamic extremists if they did not wear headscarves.

    James Brandon, of the anti-extremism think-tank the Quilliam Foundation, which has dubbed the intimidation the work of ‘Talibanesque thugs’, said: ‘This is a small group which is not representative of these communities. ‘It’s great news that the police have decided to investigate this. This has the potential to divide communities and upset people.’


    Yesterday the leader of Waltham Forest Council, Chris Robbins, said: ‘As soon as we heard about these posters we worked over the weekend to take them all down.

    ‘Since then we have been going through our CCTV images and working with the police to try to identify the culprits. Our policy is to use the full extent of our powers to prosecute any offenders.

    ‘People should not get the wrong idea about our borough because a handful of small-minded idiots, who do not live here, decide to deface our streets with ridiculous posters.

    Requiring immigrants to speak English 'breaches human rights,' claims couple as they launch legal bid to overturn ruling


    A new immigration rule requiring people to be able to speak English to move to the UK to be with their spouse is a breach of human rights, a court heard today.

    A couple have launched a judicial review at the High Court to challenge the rule, which they claim contravenes their rights to a family life, their right to marry and constitutes discrimination.

    British citizen Rashida Chapti, 54, and husband Vali Chapti, 57, are applying for him to join her in the UK.

    Legal fight: Rashida Chapti, holding a picture of her children, has gone to the High Court to fight a ruling that her husband Vali must learn English before he will be allowed to remain in the UK

    The couple have been married for 37 years and have six children together. Mr Chapti is an Indian national and does not speak, read or write English.

    Mrs Chapti has reportedly been travelling between India and Leicester for around 15 years but has now applied for her husband to come and live in the UK with her.

    But under new immigration rules announced by Home Secretary Theresa May in June 2010, he cannot do so due to a new English language requirement for migrants applying to come or stay in the UK as a spouse.

    But the Chaptis, along with two other couples, have launched proceedings to contest it.


    The rule, which came into force in November last year, is thought to be part of the Government's pledge to reduce net migration.

    At the High Court sitting in Birmingham, Manjit Gill QC, representing the couple, told the court the requirement was a breach of their human rights.

    He said it contravenes several Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights - Article 8, the right to family life, Article 12, the right to marry, and Article 14, to be free of discrimination.

    Mr Gill said: 'The rule is particularly striking in that it prevents mere residence even though one of the parties is fully entitled to live in this country.'

    He said the rule discriminated against people on the grounds of nationality and 'race discrimination'.

    'It may be that the Secretary of State is able to show at that point that such a requirement is proportionate interference with the rights in question.'


    He went on: 'There may be reasons, where the Secretary of State is concerned, that for those who are already here, before he allows them to gain a benefit such as indefinite leave to remain, or citizenship, that he is entitled to ask that they show some understanding of the language and some knowledge of life in the UK so that at that stage integration is assisted.

    But he said the measure prevented people who are British citizens and settled in the country from living with their partners, adding: 'That vice is compounded by the fact that the measure does this on grounds which are blatantly, admittedly, racially discriminatory.'

    Wednesday, July 27, 2011

    Couple swap identity of dead baby daughter with twin sister to hide catalogue of injuries


    A couple who hid horrendous injuries they caused to their baby daughter by switching her with her identical twin have been found guilty of child cruelty.

    Mohammed Karolia, 29, has been jailed for child crueltyMohammed and Nafisa Karolia have been jailed for child crueltyMohammed and Nafisa Karolia concealed the abuse from health visitors by making a stream of excuses for only one child being at home at any time.

    The baby – known as Twin M – suffered broken ribs, legs, arms, brain damage, and injuries to the head, ears and nose during her seven months of life.

    The injuries were inflicted on at least 3 separate occasions some were at least six weeks old.

      Her parents never sought medical attention and the baby died of an unrelated illness. Yesterday the couple were warned they faced a lengthy jail sentence.

      For some unexplained reason, Preston Crown Court heard, taxi driver Mohammed, 29, and his 22-year-old wife rejected and abused one twin while caring for the other.

      The jury heard that when health visitors called at their home, the couple made deliberate attempts to conceal the injured twin.

       They would claim Twin M was visiting her grandparents or was with relatives.

      On another occasion, when both twins had an appointment at a doctor’s surgery, Mrs Karolia claimed the second twin was absent due to teething trouble.

      And two weeks before Twin M’s death, Naima Khan, a nurse, arrived for a pre-arranged visit but neither twin was present.

      Later that afternoon Mrs Karolia’s social worker, Geraldine Greenwood, was duped when she called at the home in Blackburn to be told that the other twin, referred to as Twin A, was Twin M. 

      Joe Boyd, prosecuting, said the Karolias made a concerted effort to hide the ill-treatment Twin M was suffering. He said the injuries could be caused only by the parents because the baby was away from their care for just a few hours during her entire life.

      Twin M was rushed to hospital after she stopped breathing but at the hospital the Karolias claimed the dead girl was Twin A.

      Twin M died from broncho-pneumonia in June 2009 and not as a result of the injuries she sustained.

      The identity swap began to unravel when a social worker noticed discrepancies in the head, weight and height measurements taken from Twin M and her sister.

      Mr Boyd said: ‘Growth charts for both twins make it clear that the parents have at some stage swapped the babies.

      ‘They have very probably done so to seek to conceal the mounting injuries being suffered by the child who died – always the bigger twin but, for some reason, rejected and abused by them.’

      The jury was instructed they did not necessarily have to believe the baby-swapping theory to reach a guilty verdict. After the case, Detective Inspector Pete Broome of Lancashire police described the investigation as one of the most extreme he had come across.

      ‘I can only describe this as a bestial crime,’ he said.

      ‘A seven-month-old child, a babe in arms, completely and utterly incapable of defending herself has been subjected to the most horrendous violence.

      ‘The only two people who know if these babies were swapped over are the parents.

       Therein lies some of the worst aspects of this case, because the surviving twin may never know who she really was at birth.

      ‘They have never shown a flicker of remorse. The emotions they showed were for themselves and the predicament they find themselves in.’

      Sentencing was adjourned until October.