Should Muslims (or anyone) have to stand for a judge?

[chanel]

Seven Muslim protesters accused of screaming insults at soldiers during an Iraq homecoming parade refused to stand for a judge yesterday.

The men are alleged to have shouted ‘murderers’, ‘rapists’, ‘terrorists’ and ‘baby killers’ while waving placards at the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment marching through Luton.

At the town’s magistrates’ court, they denied using threatening, abusive, insulting words and behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm and distress to others.

After refusing to stand they were threatened with being found in contempt of court by a clearly angry District Judge Carolyn Mellanby.

They insisted it was a ‘grave and cardinal sin’ to show anyone other than Allah respect by standing.

Eventually, a compromise was reached where they would enter the court after her during the trial, which is expected to last six days. The maximum penalty each of the men can receive is a £1,000 fine.

The defendants were given an extra 20 minutes on top of their lunch break to go to pray at a mosque a few minutes’ walk away.

A separate ‘quiet’ room has been set aside for their regular prayer intervals for the rest of the week. The seven accused men are Munin Abdul, 28, Jalal Ahmed, 21, Jabair Ahmed, 19, Yousaf Bashir, 29, Shajjadar Choudhury, 31, Ziaur Rahman, 32, and white Muslim Ibrahim Anderson, 32, all from Luton.

They are alleged to have chanted: ‘British army murderers’, ‘British soldiers burn in hell’ and ‘Baby killers shame on you’.

Neil Mercer, defending Abdul and Rahman, said: ‘In Muslim countries it is a grave and cardinal sin to show respect in this way to anyone other than God himself. Their reasons would be the same if it was the Queen, with respect.’

He added: ‘It is an important religious observance which, if they break, they find themselves in mortal sin. They cannot make a show of respect to a human being, whoever that human being is, whether it is the Queen or the Lord Chief Justice or an imam.’

Muslim protesters ‘branded British soldiers rapists and baby killers during homecoming parade’ | EUTimes.net
Is this where we're headed folks?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Why has no one else ever had this problem?

 

[syrenn]

Its called contempt of court. Please keep them IN JAIL until they can stand it court. Hopefully that is FOREVER!!!

 

[Tank]

Ya Muslims should have to stand for a judge, but there not going too because they hate all who are not Muslim.

 

[Gremlin-USA]

This is Cow Dung

The defendants were given an extra 20 minutes on top of their lunch break to go to pray at a mosque a few minutes’ walk away.

A separate ‘quiet’ room has been set aside for their regular prayer intervals for the rest of the week. The seven accused men are Munin Abdul, 28, Jalal Ahmed, 21, Jabair Ahmed, 19, Yousaf Bashir, 29, Shajjadar Choudhury, 31, Ziaur Rahman, 32, and white Muslim Ibrahim Anderson, 32, all from Luton.

If a Christian (or Buddhist, or anyone else) told a Judge that he would not stand and needed time out for prayers, the Judge would throw him under the jail.

This is just one sided Bull Crap

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[ConHog]

Muslims have the right to go back to the desert, fuck them all. Live by OUR policies, or in this case Britains, or leave how hard is that to understand?

Quick analogy.

My son has a buddy who's mom kicked him out of the house when he turned 18. After much negotiation, he moved in with us. Our rules are quite different than what he is used to, or what he thinks is acceptable for an 18 y/o. He was given a choice, conform or live somewhere else. He mumbled, he grumbled, but in the end he came to me and said he would conform. Problem solved.

 

[chanel]

I read a lot of British news and some of it scares the bejeezus outta me. I fear thi is where we are headed. Not only in the name of political correctness; but in the name of radical civil libertarians on both the left and the right. When hate speech and lack of respect are tolerated and embraced in the name of the first amendment, the only losers will be those of us who do not hate and do not disrespect. Be careful what you wish for folks.

 

[Granny]

It's customary and a courtesy to stand when a Judge comes to the bench. Neither Plaintiffs nor Defendants need to remain standing; for that matter no one remains standing once the Judge is seated except maybe the Bailiffs.

This Muslim stuff is just nuts. How are you going to feel about sharia law being introduced in America? Because that's what they're trying to make happen. If it were any other group of people the world would be screaming "human rights violations!"

America has it's own laws and those are the laws that we should use and ENFORCE - not sharia law, not French law, not Brazilian law, not international law. F**k that shit.