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November 9, 2006
UK: Muslim Found Guilty Of Inciting Racial Hatred
The case of Mizanur Rahman, a 23-year old web designer who was put on trial at the Old Bailey for comments he made in February, has come to an inconclusive end today. Rahman has been found guilty of inciting race hatred, but the jury was unable to come to a conclusion on the other charge of inciting murder.
The news is carried by the BBC, Times, Daily Mail, Sky News and Associated Press.
On February 3, Mizanur Rahman was part of the illegal demonstration which took place outside the Danish Embassy in Sloane Square, Chelsea, in west London. This demonstration, organized by Anjem Choudary and his Ahl ul-Sunnah Wa al-Jamma group, was held to protest the publication of 12 cartoon respresentations of Mohammed, founder of Islam, which had appeared in Jyllands-Posten newspaper on September 30, 2005.
Placards, drawn up by a veiled woman, carried inflammatory slogans, including "Behead those who insult Islam", "Europe. Take some lessons from 9/11", "Europe you will pay. Demolition is on its way", "Europe you will pay. Your extermination is on its way," "Slay those who insult Islam," "Butcher those who insult Islam".
Mizanur Rahman, from Palmers Green, north London, haad carried two placards, bearing the words "Behead those who insult Islam" and "Annihilate those who insult Islam".
During the trial, prosecutor David Perry told the jury that Rahman had taken a megaphone and was recorded stating: "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, Amen."
He had also called out: "Bomb, bomb France. Bomb, bomb France. Nuke, nuke France. Nuke, nuke France," and had urged the "indiscriminate killing" of troops in Iraq.
Rahman had also told the assembled protesters: "We don't want to see them in Baghdad or 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 and Fallujah."
"We want to see the Mujahideen shoot down their planes like the way they shoot down birds. We want to see their tanks burnt, just like we burn their flags."
"We want to see their freedoms destroyed. We want to see all of them removed from Muslim land. Oh, Allah don't leave any of them alive in Iraq, don't leave any of them alive in Afghanistan, don't leave any of them standing in France."
Video of this speech was played to the jury. When Rahman's trial had commenced on Thursday November 2, members of Ahl ul-Sunnah Wa al-Jamma, including Anjem Choudary and Abu Izzadeen mounted a semonstration outside the Central Criminal Court. This demonstration turned violent, when a cameraman was physically attacked by Muslims. When police went to arrest the man who had carried out the attack, three other Muslims intervened and a clash broke out. One policeman was punched in the face, and another had his helmet knocked off. The four protesters were arrested.
When the illegal demonstration had taken place in February, there was media outrage that no-one had been arrested. Questions were asked in the Houses of Parliament by David Davis, the shadow Home Secretary.
In all, only four people were brought to face charges on Friday June 26 as a result of the Sloane Square demonstration. These included Mizanur Rahman, as well as 26-year old Umran Javed of Birmingham, who denied one charge of soliciting to murder American or Danish nationals and one charge of using threatening words or behaviour likely to stir up racial hatred. 31 year old Abdul Rahman Saleem (aka Abu Yahya) denied one count of using words likely to stir up racial hatred. 23 year old Abdul Muhid was charged with two counts of soliciting murder to those who insulted Islam.
All those charged except Abdul Muhid were granted bail. Muhid, who had tried to flee the country on May 4 with Anjem Choudary, was denied bail and was kept in custody in Winchester Prison.
Muhid, Abdul Rahman Saleem (aka Abu Yahya) and Umran Javed are still awaiting their trials.
On July 4, Choudary was fined £500 ($921) for organizing an unauthorized demonstration, with £300 ($553) costs.
With the end of Rahman's trial having an inconclusive end, it is expected that he will be facing a retrial for the charge of inciting murder. He wasa remanded in custody, awaiting sentencing for the conviction of inciting racial hatred.
During his trial, Rahman's counsel, John Burton, compared his client's words on February 3 to the rantings of people at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park. Rahman had claimed that he had no intention of carrying out the actions he had urged others to commit.
Labour MP for Dewsbury, Shahid Malik (a Muslim) said: "I'm very satisfied with the verdict and hope that it will send out the signal that whilst we may indeed be fortunate enough to live in a free society, it does not give people the freedom to stir up racial hatred, and that those who do so will be dealt with the courts accordingly."
The MP did not say what he thought about Rahman's calls for murder.
Choudary's website for his group Al Ghurabaa, which was subsequently banned in September, had spelled out the meaning behind the placads and messages at the march in no uncertain terms. The slogans called for death, and they meant this seriously. Al Ghurabaa's site carried the following article at the time of the march in February:
Kill those who insult the Prophet Muhammad (saw)
The kuffar in their sustained crusade against Islam and Muslims have yet again displayed their hatred towards us this time by attacking the honour of our beloved Messenger Muhammad (saw). In September 2005 the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 10 cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad (saw) which were later republished by a Norwegian paper Magazinet. Until now both governments have refused to denounce the drawings and to condemn the publication of them.
Denmark has a history of blasphemy against Islam, only in August did radio presenter Kaj Wilhelmsen say that all fanatical Muslims should be exterminated and the rest should be kicked out of Europe. Last year the queen of Denmark aired her disapproval of Islam and for those 'whom religion is their entire life'. Prior to this the Danish government issued the right to dismiss a Muslim woman from working in a supermarket for wearing the hijab. Furthermore Denmark is an ally of the war in .
Both governments claim that one of their underlying principles is the freedom of speech and that everyone is free to speak their mind and to voice their opinions openly. They claim that the publication of these cartoons is a mere expression of ones opinions falling within the framework of the law.....
...This should come as no surprise to the Muslims because this is the exact and true nature of the kuffar that Allah (swt) has informed us of in the Quran. The kuffar will never have respect for our deen, they will never honour it and will always seek to ridicule and disparage it. At every opportunity they will try to attack and belittle it whilst concealing the greater hatred they have for it in their hearts. This is also evident throughout the history of Islam where the kuffar carried out similar acts to try and defame Islam. Allah (swt) tells us that;
At the time of the Messenger Muhammad (saw) there were individuals like these who dishonoured and insulted him upon whom the Islamic judgement was executed. Such people were not tolerated in the past and throughout the history of Islam were dealt with according to the Shariah. Ka'ab ibn Ashraf was assassinated by Muhammad ibn Maslamah for harming the Messenger Muhammad (saw) by his words, Abu Raafi' was killed by Abu Ateeq as the Messenger ordered in the most evil of ways for swearing at the prophet, Khalid bin Sufyaan was killed by Abdullah bin Anees who cut off his head and brought it to the prophet for harming the Messenger Muhammad (saw) by his insults, Al-Asmaa bintu Marwaan was killed by Umayr bin Adi' al-Khatmi, a blind man, for writing poetry against the prophet and insulting him in it, Al-Aswad al-Ansi was killed by Fairuz al-Daylami and his family for insulting the Messenger Muhammad (saw) and claiming to be a prophet himself.
Shortly after these incidents the people began to realise that insulting the Messenger of Allah (saw) was not something to be taken lightly and that by doing so would mean that you would be killed for it, a concept that many have seem to forgotten .
The insulting of the Messenger Muhammad (saw) is something that the Muslims cannot and will not tolerate and the punishment in Islam for the one who does so is death. This is the sunnah of the prophet and the verdict of Islam upon such people, one that any Muslim is able execute. The response of the Muslims all over the world shows us the inability to deal with such people, the kuffar are attacking our Messenger and are allowed to get away with it whilst the Muslims have no power to do anything about it. The leaders of the Muslim world have no care for the deen of Islam as they are busy cementing their seats content with their power and wealth. Where are the Muhammad ibn Maslamah's of our ummah who will ?
But if they violate their oaths after their covenant, and attack your religion with disapproval and criticism then fight (you) the leaders of disbelief - for surely their oaths are nothing to them - so that they may stop (evil actions). [9:12]
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at November 9, 2006 6:11 PM
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