The UK is really starting to give the Saudis a run for their money with the speed at which the Labour government is implementing Sharia Islamic law.
So far this year, a man was stabbed by a Muslim for burning a Koran. The stabber got bailed, the stabbee did not and was charged with harassing the “religious institution of Islam”.
Also known as “blasphemy” law.
Then, more recently, an anti-Israel activist was arrested for carrying a sign reading “Stop Israel genocide! Stop Hamas executions!” on the grounds of engaging in a “racially and religiously aggravated breach of the peace under the Public Order Act.”
Since the Bobbies couldn’t just criminalize criticism of Hamas, they also decided to criminalize criticism of Hezbollah.
A Jewish protester was arrested by the Metropolitan Police after he briefly held a placard satirising a Hezbollah terrorist leader, The Telegraph can reveal.
The British man, who has asked to remain anonymous for his safety, was detained and charged last September over a cartoon that showed Hassan Nasrallah, the Lebanese terror chief, with a pager and the words “beep, beep, beep”.
During questioning, police repeatedly asked the man – who was part of a counter-demonstration against a pro-Palestinian march – if he believed the image would offend “clearly pro-Hezbollah and anti-Israel” activists.
Before detaining him overnight at Islington police station, officers searched his home in a failed attempt to find the placard, which the man had already explained was not his.
“Two police vans and six officers turned up at our house to search for ‘offensive material’, which was quite invasive. It was a horrible experience,” he said.
“They put me in the lounge and asked my partner to go with them around the house. They weren’t very pleasant to her and even went through her knicker drawer. It was totally ridiculous.”
Following his arrest, in police interview footage obtained by The Telegraph, an officer can be seen repeatedly asking the counter-protester: “Do you think that showing this image to persons protesting who are clearly pro-Hezbollah and anti-Israel that by doing so would stir up racial hatred further than it is already?”
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The counter-protester denied intending to incite racial hatred or insult or distress supporters of the proscribed Lebanese terror group, telling the investigating officer the sign was “political satire”.
He was released at 6.30am and later charged under the Public Order Act for causing racially or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress by words or writing.
Much as with the previous Hamas case, the Met cops are claiming that it was just a mistake and that they “misspoke”. The Met also claimed that another officer who told a Jewish man that he had to leave the vicinity of a pro-terrorist rally because he was “visibly Jewish” misspoke.
In this case there was not only misspeaking, but a case that ran for eight months before it was dropped.
A spokesman added that the man “was charged following a careful consideration of the evidence” and that the force would attempt to learn lessons from the episode
The only lesson they seem to learn is in political repression and Islamization.
