Three men were today jailed for an arson attack on a publisher after discovering he was going to produce a book about the Prophet Mohammed and his child bride.
Martin Rynja had the door to his home in Lonsdale Square, Islington, north London, doused in diesel and set ablaze in September last year.
Ali Beheshti and Abrar Mirza admitted, and Abbas Taj was found guilty of, planning the attack on Gibson Square Books Ltd.
In the days before the arson attack Jones’ book had been likened to The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, which provoked a storm of protest in the Muslim world.
Today Mrs Justice Rafferty, sitting at London’s Royal Courts of Justice, sentenced each of them to four and a half years in jail at London’s Royal Courts of Justice.
As he jailed them she said: ‘If you choose to live in this country, you live by its rules’.
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Rather courageous ruling. It’s about time. Now they just need to find a way of shipping these people back to their countries of origin.
mid island mike
“Beheshti now considers his actions to be ‘misguided, disproportionate and counter-productive,’ the barrister added.”
Yeah right….maybe they converted to Christianity too, ‘any port in a storm’. But lets interpret what these guys really mean when they say this.
Misguided – inadequate planning which resulted in them getting caught.
Disproportionate – should have strapped a nail bomb on a mentally challenged child and sent him in the name of Allah to ring the door bell.
Counter-productive – brought Muslims like himself, friends and acquaintances even more to the attention of authorities and the public.
I’ve linked to the book they were “pissed about” in the sidebar. Going over the reviews it doesn’t sound like much — not worth going to jail for 4.5 years for sure.
Maybe these clowns should learn to read before they act. It could save them a lot of grief.
Literacy is not a redeeming characteristic of the Muslim world therefore their ‘religious leaders’ success at corrupting so many of their followers.
The extremists don’t need to read. Their mullahs tell them everything they need to know. Extra knowledge would only interfere with their convictions.
More evidence of the influence of that inherently “peaceful and tolerant religion”, Islam.
It is good that the three are going to jail: but it is unfortunate that they are only being incarcerated four four and a bit years. They will most likely re-offend.
Further to what Cunctator said:
4 years in a jail that panders to their ‘religious’ rights with Halal meals, toilets turned to face away from Mecca and allows them to preach their vile form of theology to a captive audience.
Almost as good as a terrorist training camp in the ‘Stan.
Brilliant. Why don’t they just deport them back to whatever shithole they came from? Cheaper in the long run.