The Daily Mail, and probably everyone involved, sees this exclusively as a racial issue, but it isn't. If Henry Webster had converted to Islam, it is extremely unlikely that Wasif Khan and Amjad Qazi would have continued persecuting him. The Muslim ("Asian") students in the school were "radicalised and hostile." "Radicalised" as what? The Daily Mail gives no hint as to the answer, but the answer is clear: these students were Islamic supremacist thugs who preyed upon non-Muslim students while the dhimmi school administration stood by and wrung its hands about how it would be accused of "racism" if it did anything about it. This shows the usefulness of the charge of "racism" to Islamic jihadists and supremacists, and the necessity of constantly restating the plain fact that the Islamic jihad is not a race, and resistance to it is not a racial issue, but is rather a defense of the legal equality of all people against the Sharia supremacists who would extinguish that equality.
"Parents seek £1m for hammer attack on white son at 'race bullies' school," by Daniel Bates for the Daily Mail, October 21 (thanks to Joel):
A white pupil was battered with a hammer at a school where politically correct teachers were afraid to deal with racial tensions, the High Court heard yesterday.Henry Webster, 15, suffered a fractured skull and brain damage after being set upon by a gang of Asian youths.
Twelve people were jailed over the 2007 attack, but Mr Webster's parents have now brought a civil action against Ridgeway Foundation School near Swindon.
They claim there was a negligent failure to maintain proper discipline and deal with racial tension and are seeking compensation of up to £1million.
The family's lawyers told the court a 'culture of racist bullying and harassment' built up around a 30-strong gang called the 'Asian Invasion'.
Teachers were too anxious about being seen as bigoted to intervene, but white pupils were branded 'racist' by the acting headmaster and given harsher punishments.
Robert Glancey, QC, representing the family, said tensions escalated after the July 7 London bombings in 2005 and when more Asian pupils joined the school, some of whom were 'radicalised and hostile'.
Racial intimidation and violence became a 'feature of the life of the school' with eruptions of 'extreme acts of violence', it was alleged.
Asians were 'encouraged' to separate from white pupils and formed a gang that would laugh at and abuse them.
Serious incidents included a riot on the playing field in May 2006, which led to armed police attending the school.
At the same time, white pupils received unfair treatment, the court was told. One boy was disciplined for wearing an England shirt.
Mr Glancey said: 'There were a large number of incidents, events, complaints and warnings which would or should have made any school which was being reasonably competent realise there was a serious problem with racism, violence security, discipline and misbehaviour.'...
Among the 12 jailed for between eight months and eight years for GBH and ABH over the incident were Wasif Khan, 18, and Amjad Qazi, 19.
They were the eldest members of the group which attacked Mr Webster and were not pupils at the school. Instead they journeyed to there after a series of text messages and phone calls from Asian pupils....
When you can't wear the shirt of your national team there is something very wrong.
It does highlight nicely though how easily inflamed the passions of moslems are. So far from rational you'd think they were from a brainwashed cult.
Oh, right......
Our local news is trying to paint this as a non-racial, non-cultural attack, saying that it was retaliation for an earlier incident where Henry had punched another 'youth' in the face.
A simple playground incident, on the face of it. Certainly, that's what Henry thought as he went to an after-school 'rendezvous' with a 'youth'. He thought they were going to have it out, one-on-one. He never expected to be set upon by so many 'Asians', both teenagers and adults, armed and looking for blood.
They caved in his skull with a hammer and originally, he was given only a slim chance of living. He is now brain-damaged, and the life that would have been is no more. The attackers have never expressed remorse.
The sun set on the British empire when they opened the door to Islam...
Okay here is my advice based on my experiences living
as a youth of Southern Italian immigrants in the Bronx.
A group of Anglo Saxon youths needs to start kicking
Asian youths butts in when they begin to hassle Anglo
Saxon Youths especially Anglo Saxon girls. Once the Asian
youths take a few beatings , like all bullies they will back
off. Whether they realize or not the Anglo Saxon youths
are still in the majority. Stand up Anglo Saxon youths!
You are absolutly correct.
The only way to handle a bully is to confront him.
I couldn't agree with you more.
http://www.mtv.com/videos/bully-beatdown-ep-8-emil-the-beefy-barbarian-bully/1623821/playlist.jhtml
More, from the Sunday Times of London, 13 April 2008:
Police had been called to a similar incident involving members of the same gang eight months earlier. A white pupil was left with a broken jaw, but there was no prosecution.
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"A broken jaw"--quite a serious injury, yet no prosecution. And injuries incurred by Muslim students? Well, there is this:
One of the defendants claimed there were repeated rumours of racist bullying by whites against Asians at the school.
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"Rumors" of bullying. No documented incidents, even of a minor nature.
More:
When Henry, who had no record of disciplinary problems, arrived at the courts he found three carloads of older teenagers armed with a variety of weapons. They had been summoned by 59 mobile phone calls made in the space of little more than an hour. One caller told them one of the “gora [whites]...wanted a fight”.
Webster was cornered, punched and, as he turned to try to escape, knocked down and hit with the hammer. Even after onlookers had heard the crack of his skull fracturing, the other gang members continued to kick and punch him.
In front of at least 250 school-children, the gang yelled: “That’s what you call Paki-bashing,” while punching the air.
During the attack, the schoolboy’s skull was fractured in three places by the hammer. A section about 2in across was smashed into the front of his skull, tearing the lining of his brain.
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"59 calls"--to gather a murderous Muslim mob to set on one 16-year-old boy. And then, the insane reference to "Paki-bashing"--after this mob almost beats a boy to death. And yet, they talk as though *they* are the victims.
More:
Wasif Khan, 18, who wielded the hammer on Webster, has been convicted of grievous bodily harm, as have Amjad Qazi, 19, Nazrul Amin, 19, and four schoolboys.
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They should have been convicted of attempted murder.
More:
...the Websters requested extra vigilance for their younger son, Joe, 12, who was anxious to continue at the Ridgeway with his friends. The younger boy was surrounded by a threatening gang of Bengali-speaking Asians a few weeks after the attack.
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So now Henry's little brother is under threat. Sick. Will anyone act to protect this boy? I would't count on it.
More:
The police have been reluctant to accept any racial element. “We took 797 statements, we have 3,000 pages of documents and there is nothing to indicate racist language or taunts were used in any of the exchanges,” said Detective Sergeant Mark Wilkinson of Wiltshire police, who led the investigation.
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What about the mob's slur of referring to Henry as a "gora"? What about the reference to "Paki-bashing". You can be sure that the police are not overlooking the "racial element" because they are focusing on the Muslim supremacist element.
More:
Nevertheless, Wilkinson concedes Khan was a “wannabe militant”. He had been involved in two previous violent incidents, though never charged, and carried on his mobile phone a screensaver of the collapse of New York’s twin towers.
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I gasped when I read that last line. There is no doubt what sort of "militant" Khan is. There is no doubt--Khan and his fellow "Asian" thugs are budding Jihadists.
Xavier;
Right on the mark. Instead of warring on each other as soccer hooligans, they should turn some of this angst on these "Asian youth." I can't help but believe a great divide is happening in England and hopefully the British youth will lead the way in taking back their country from these barbarians. Their elders are too lame to do it.
Wasif Khan, 18, who wielded the hammer on Webster, has been convicted of grievous bodily harm, as have Amjad Qazi, 19, Nazrul Amin, 19, and four schoolboys
They should be sent down for life, preferably in solitary, but shouldn't be allowed to mix with non-Muslim prisoners. And their entire families deported to the Pakistani and/or Bangladeshi crapholes from whence they came. They're worse than a social menace here, they're the most lethal form of cancer known to humanity.
To show just how far things have gone in the UK this letter from the "Daily Mail" comment section on the story is worth reading!
BEGINS,
I was glad to retire from my job of 34 years last May.I had an unblemished record until then but finally blotted my copybook when I automatically said"Bless you"to the new girl after she sneezed.It seems this zealous anti racist,who happened to be from Lahore,took offence and reported me.I was asked to apologise for hurt feelings and,if I hadn't been due to finish in 3 days, would have been required to attend a "cultural diversity awareness"session.
I always thought one said "Bless you"as during a sneeze,the devil is supposed to escape from your soul and this is protection(not that I take all this into account whenever I say it!)Surely all religions have devils in one form or another and therefore we all require protection?
- ann hamilton, manchester, 21/10/2009
MY COMMENT
That a newly arrived girl from Lahore can exercise such power over a British teacher is absolutely incredible.
My heart goes out to the young boy and his family.
Britain has let in lots of unwanted muslim crap into the country. They are also bowing to the whims and fancies of the islamothugs. The opening of Sharia courts was a blunder. They are not able to face the muslim mobs when there is a roit, basically it requires a use of strength. You cant deal with islamic thugs with soft hands.
Integratin or assimilation of muslims into british society is out of question. The dhimmi politicians and lawmakers must have figured this out by now. So the problem has to be dealt leaving political correctness behind. You need to close down the sharia courts, strip the special previlages for muslims and finally shut down the mosques which are places where the hateful ideas are propagated.
Xavier, Briars,
Asians! Asians!
Chinese? Indians? Filippinos? Nepalese? Srilankans?
Just because the PC MSM obfuscates, doesn't mean we succumb to the party line. We know these are Muslim thugs and that's what they ought to be called. Their ethnicity or nationality is of no consequence in explaining their behaviour.
UK has been inflicted by Muslims from Pakistan and Bangladesh mainly and these convicted thugs should be sent back to their country of origin alongwith their families. Just see the sudden improvement in British crime scene as soon as such a punishment is introduced.
GravenImage - good analysis.
If I were Henry Webster's parents, I would hold an emergency council with young Joe's non-Muslim friends' parents, and then sign up all the kids, boys and girls, for deadly-serious martial arts classes, three times a week: wing chun kung fu or taekwondo or karate, that kind of thing. *Anything* that gives balance, focus, and training in the use of concentrated physical force, as well as in the art of 'reading' an opponent and a situation.
A friend of my husband's used to tell the story of his martial arts instructor, a short frail-seeming little old Chinese guy, who was once set upon in a park at night by a gang of young thugs who thought they had an easy mark. Wham. Bang. Boom. In no time the thugs were littering the landscape in assorted uncomfortable attitudes; and while they were still blinking and wondering what had hit them, the little Chinese guy made his escape (the main aim of such action, especially when you are outnumbered, being, as the old fellow told my husband's friend, to put your assailants out of commission long enough for you to get away to a safer place).
Here, just to complement Graven Image's excellent analysis above, is the posted article, after being run through the jihadwatch translator.
Look what happens when only a few trifling changes are made in terminology.
"Parents seek £1m for hammer attack on non-Muslim son at 'race bullies' school," by Daniel Bates for the Daily Mail, October 21 (thanks to Joel):
'A white non-Muslim pupil was battered with a hammer by young Muslim thugs at a school where politically correct teachers were afraid to deal with Muslim aggression, the High Court heard yesterday.
'Henry Webster, 15, suffered a fractured skull and brain damage after being set upon by a gang of Muslim youths.
'Twelve people were jailed over the 2007 attack, but Mr Webster's parents have now brought a civil action against Ridgeway Foundation School near Swindon.
'They claim there was a negligent failure to maintain proper discipline and deal with racial tension (sic: that is, Muslim aggression toward non-Muslims) and are seeking compensation of up to £1million.
'The family's lawyers told the court a 'culture of racist [sic: bigotry] bullying and harassment' was created by a 30-strong all-Muslim gang called the 'Asian Invasion'.
'Teachers were too anxious about being seen as bigoted to intervene, but white non-Muslim pupils were branded 'racist' by the acting headmaster and given harsher punishments.
'Robert Glancey, QC, representing the family, said tensions escalated (sic: that is, the Muslims became more openly aggressive and threatening) after the July 7 London bombings in 2005 and when more Asian Muslim pupils joined the school, some of whom were 'radicalised and hostile'.
'Muslim intimidation of and aggression toward non-Muslim pupils became a 'feature of the life of the school' with eruptions of 'extreme acts of violence', it was alleged.
Asian Muslims were 'encouraged' to separate from white non-Muslim pupils and formed a gang that would laugh at and abuse them.
'Serious incidents included a riot on the playing field in May 2006, which led to armed police attending the school.
'At the same time, white non-Muslim pupils received unfair treatment, the court was told. One boy was disciplined for wearing an England shirt
.
'Mr Glancey said: 'There were a large number of incidents, events, complaints and warnings which would or should have made any school which was being reasonably competent realise there was a serious problem with racism (sic - in fact, he should have said, 'Muslim bigotry toward non-Muslims'), violence, security, discipline and misbehaviour.'
'Mr Webster was attacked after being told an Asian Muslim youth wanted a one-to-one fight.
But reinforcements from outside the school were called in by mobile phone.
'Among the 12 jailed for between eight months and eight years for GBH and ABH over the incident were Wasif Khan, 18, and Amjad Qazi, 19.
They were the eldest members of the group which attacked Mr Webster and were not pupils at the school. Instead they journeyed to there after a series of text messages and phone calls from Asian Muslim pupils.
Ridgeway School disputes the allegations against it and says blaming it for the attack, carried out by a non-pupil outside school hours, is ' unprecedented and far-fetched'.
The case is being brought by Mr Webster, now 18, his mother Elizabeth Walker, 46, who has her own nanny recruitment business, his younger brother Joseph, 14, and his step-father Roger Durnford, 44, who runs a building company.
They are also seeking damages, saying they were traumatised by witnessing his injuries and his suffering.
The case continues." END OF REWRITTEN ARTICLE.
Fascinating, isn't it, what a few changes in wording could do?
Maybe a friend of the Websters, engaging in a little quiet googling around the case, will stumble in here, and read Mr Spencer's remarks, and those by Gravenimage, and my own efforts, and gain in understanding.
Will the British press stop its stupidity and stop using the deliberately confusing and PC word "Asian youth"? What Asian youth? Indian, Chinese, Thais, or Sri Lankans? Or Hindus, Sikhs, Christians? These thugs are Muslims! Does the PC brigade in UK not get it? They are Muslims through and through. The false notion of superiority has been fed to them while they really are the lowest of the low creatures. It is time for the other British youth to back their schools and streets from the Muslim thugs. Wear the English colours proudly and fly the St. James flag, police be damned. It cannot be illegal to show your Englishness. If it is, then DEMAND changes in the law. Most of all, stand up to Muslim thugs.
The Daily Mail is quick to accuse other papers of Political Correctness, yet here they are using the word "ASIAN" again.
I have personally experienced this sort of intimidation before to myself and to others.
The problem here is as follows:
The non moslem asians ie. Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists, Christians need to act together to post comments online in response to these stories, demanding that the word asian is not used and that the word moslem is used.
We need to write to the journalists and the editors demanding the same.
We need to highlight islamic intimidation against non moslems of coulour, this will help put to rest the lie that to condemn islam is racist.
This is a small sample of what is happening in the UK.
http://www.hinduvoice.co.uk/Issues/21/DurgaPooja.htm
http://www.hinduvoice.co.uk/issues/28/QMW.htm
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23386539-police-protect-girls-forced-to-convert-to-islam.do
The fact is we are not organised in our response to the media.
Asian my arse !!
You are so right.
I am English and Hindus and Sikhs have lived among us in considerable numbers for generations without disrupting the peace. Now all of a sudden it's "Asian" this & "Asian"
that. All because the PC media is afraid to point out that Muslims are creating the problems.