Remember the British prison official who was fired for insulting Osama bin Laden in the presence of a group of Muslims who may have heard him? It was an astonishing story in that it demonstrated the craven dhimmitude of the British officials involved, as well as a strange amnesia regarding the universal Bin-Laden-is-a-heretic stories that blanketed the media after 9/11. But today comes some good news:
"A British prison officer, fired for cracking a joke about Osama bin Laden, has won a claim for unfair dismissal after a tribunal ruled the jail governor's decision was 'reprehensible,' British newspapers said on Friday."
This from Reuters.
"Colin Rose, who had 21 years experience within the prison service, was fired after being reported making an 'insensitive' comment two months after the September 11, 2001 attacks on Washington and New York blamed on bin Laden's al Qaeda group."When a colleague had asked him why he had used so much force to throw some keys down a metal chute at the jail in Lowestoft, eastern England, Rose had quipped: 'There's a photo of Osama bin Laden there.'
"He said the remark was 'barrack-room humor' but his superiors said a group of Asians visiting the jail might have been offended, newspapers reported.
"However the tribunal ruled that Rose, a former soldier with Britain's Coldstream Guards, had effectively been accused of a 'thought crime' as the visitors did not hear what he had said.
"Ruling in Rose's favor, the tribunal criticized governor Jerry Knight's decision to sack him saying: 'Conduct by the governor was reprehensible, totally unjustified. We wondered whether the governor lived in the real world.'"
Unfortunately, he does.
wow a win for the good guy
A THOUGHT crime???? Is that really a crime category in Britain?
And what if he had been heard? What if he had not thrown the keys with a certain force, but instead said, and in the presence of Muslim visitors, that he hoped Bin Laden was captured or killed -- would that be punishable? Why? What would make Muslims upset that he wished for the punishment of someone who had claimed credit for, and reveled in, mass murder? On what grounds would any decent Muslim be offended? Surely anyone, Muslim or otherwise, who would take offense at such a remark is himself suspect, and worth examining more closely.
Given the past few years, and what growing numbers of Infidels have learned -- despie all the obstacles thrown up -- about Muslim teachings, Muslim history, and deep-seated Muslim attitudes toward all Infidels, it would seem that fear of offending tender Muslim sensibilities would be last on anyone's list of worries. Perhaps the man who did the original firing ought to be fired instead. In the Western world, one should regard with keen suspicion those now quick to take the side of Muslim causes, wherever they may be -- just as in the 1930s, those who promoted what were, objectively, pro-Nazi or pro-Axis policies, ought to be have been discredited and marginalized long before we went to war. Unfortunately, it was only after we went to war, with such books as Under Cover by John Roy Carlson, that the full story of the fifth columnists became widely understood. Since the Jihad is not conducted mainly through military means, but even more effectively by means of subverting the Infidel lands from within (not least through conversion, and demographic infiltration), it is even more important to work against those who, either by misleading the unwary about the tenets of Islam, or by exhibiting a pronounced sympathy for Muslim causes (in Kashmir, in "Palestine," in the southern Philippines, in -- fill in the blank with any of a hundred toponyms)show themselves, even if non-Muslims, objectively furthering the Jihad -- and therefore, figures not to be trusted, indeed to be regarded with wariness (if they are simply useful idiots) or suspicion (if their private pathologies otherwise incline them to become agents of political Islam).
Knight (the guy who sacked Rose) is the one who should be sacked — for being so bigoted as to assume all Muslims honor bin Laden.
A number of us went a bit ballistic on the original story. Thanks for the update. I posted the link on my site (with credit for the find to you, of course).