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Sharia in action in the UK: Man arrested for ripping up pages of Qur’an at soccer match

Jan 20, 2014 10:19 pm By Robert Spencer

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Also, the team’s fan group organized an “anti-racist march,” although I doubt they could explain exactly what race the Qur’an is. If soccer fans ripped copies of the Bible at a soccer match, would they be banned from the stadium for life and the police called in? Ripping the Qur’an is a crime only in Islamic law; under British law it is not, as far as I know, illegal to deface or destroy a copy of a book. Is Sharia now the law of the land in Britain?

“Police race-hate probe leads to Boro fan’s arrest,” by Sophie Barley for the Gazette Live, January 18 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A boro fan has been arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred after allegedly ripping up pages of the Koran at a match.

And six people have been suspended from attending Middlesbrough Football Club matches as the probe continued.

A 25-year-old man who has been arrested is accused of tearing up pages from the holy text of Islam and throwing them during Boro’s clash against Birmingham City last month.

The fan has been bailed while police continue to investigate the incident.

He is also banned from attending football matches and must not visit any city where Middlesbrough Football Club are playing.

The incident happened during the club’s 2-2 draw, on December 7 at Birmingham’s St Andrew’s ground.

The alleged incident was reported to police by a match steward.

West Midlands Police is investigating the incident and confirmed that a man, from Shrewsbury, has been arrested.

A spokeswoman for the force said: “On December 21 a 25-year-old man from Bicton Heath in Shrewsbury was arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred.

“He has since been bailed while the police investigation continues.

“While on bail the man has been banned from attending the St Andrew’s ground, barred from attending any football matches and must not visit any city where Middlesbrough FC are playing.”

After the allegation came to light Middlesbrough Football Club vowed to ban anyone convicted of the crime from the Riverside Stadium for life.

An MFC spokesman said: “A total of six people have now been suspended following further information from West Midland Police.

“The club will take no further action until receiving confirmation from West Midlands Police on the status of the individuals concerned.”

Following the alleged incident fans’ group, Red Faction, organised an anti-racist march before Boro’s home game against Brighton and Hove Albion on December 14.

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  1. Tayloch says

    Jan 20, 2014 at 10:28 pm

    “While on bail the man has been banned from attending the St Andrew’s ground, barred from attending any football matches and must not visit any city where Middlesbrough FC are playing.”

    So now it becomes this: The West Midlands Police are now not a “police” force, but a supporter of islamic tyranny.

  2. Salah says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 12:45 am

    Egyptian Muslims tear up the Qur’an!!!

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2014/01/egyptian-muslims-tear-up-quran.html

  3. mortimer says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 12:57 am

    If someone rips up a Bible, ho-hum! Rip up a Buddhist book, who cares? Rip a Koran, go to jail!

    What’s wrong? It looks like FAVORITISM for Islam. The only way to make Muslims see they have lost the world’s respect is to mock their pedophile prophet and mock their violent book.

  4. IceStar says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 3:18 am

    Is it illegal for Brits to rip up their own property in public?

    I do think books should be read and critiqued not torn up, but if the book belongs to him then he should be able to do with it what he wants.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Feb 11, 2014 at 4:22 am

      yup.

      When I was a kid I lived out in the bush and we had the old-fashioned backyard thunderbox, with a can that had to be taken out every five days or so and the contents buried.

      We were a family of keen readers, and in that thunderbox there were not…books, exactly, but it was where old copies of Readers Digest magazine went to die. Page by page by page…

  5. Chris UK says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 4:03 am

    Then these Egyptians must be rounded up, arrested and banned from attending ANY Middlesborough football match! lol!

  6. David says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 4:07 am

    How low can you go Britain? You keep outdoing yourself. I object to the Quran being called “holy text”, any book that labels me an infidel that needs to be killed or converted because I do not wish to belong to a 7th century death cult is not “holy text”. The fool calling the Quran holy obviously doesn’t have a clue what is in it. When the Muslims in Britain stand up & show their true selves we will see if the writer still thinks the Quran is holy.

  7. Aardvark says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 5:37 am

    Must be time for a ‘Rip up the Koran’ Day!

  8. Evad says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 7:50 am

    Since when does being against the violent teachings of a book full of hatred and peodophilia count as racial hatred … Islam has nothing to do with race people

  9. Abdullah ibn Salam says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 8:08 am

    Defacing the Noble Qur’an is an affront to a billion of Muslims. More than that, it is a affront to Allah himself.

    He is a pig devouring a Word of God!

  10. SELLA TURCICA says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 8:58 am

    Koran has never been proven that its from God, so lets cut chase and be honest , the Koran states that the earth is flat and does not move only the sun and moon circulate around it, and states that the moon use shine with the same intensity as the sun( the sun has seventy units and moon has seventy units, and we took away 69 units from the moon and gave it to the sun, and now the moon have one unit and the has 139 units) Muhammad have no clue that when we see the moon its just the reflection of sun’s light. This only one example of many which proves that the Koran was written by a nomadic people relied on their visual observation of the universe and that is why Islam prohibit any questions or investigation about Islam.

  11. Paul Storey says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 9:36 am

    I live in the UK. I can honestly say I feel oppressed and that free speech is now a thing of the past. This report has genuinely unnerved me and made me a little frightened. I have developed quite an obsession on this subject over the last year or so. I comment on the subject on youtube , forums and sites like this when I feel the need. But now I realise I have to be very careful because at any time the police could turn up and arrest me for talking about Islam. This is a real victory for the jihad!

  12. Charlie Griffith says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 11:09 am

    How sad to dead that here, coming form someone in the Land of Magna Carta.

  13. Jan says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 11:17 am

    @ the silly twat ‘abdullah’; you said:

    ”Defacing the Noble Qur’an is an affront to a billion of Muslims. More than that, it is a affront to Allah himself”

    You need to address that to your brain dead co-religionists in Saudi Arabia ! How come you aren’t all staging riots, screaming blue murder, and committing mayhem. over **this** ?

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=90e_1387161134&comments=1

  14. Martin Grimes says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 12:01 pm

    The Qur’an is the test for Britain, AbulIah. Since we have been turning away from The Bible which is the true word of God and embracing Atheism there has been a blanket of confusion over the land. It could well be that Islam’s political world view, Sharia, will be the next political system in England in the future, But I would doubt it, personally!
    There is a new politic on the horizon, a view that rejects multiculturalism. We will see how they do! The best news is Muslims are leaving Islam faster than you can say ‘By Allah…’ I ask you to join them and join me with Christ. Christ is the truth. Your prophet lied to you. You will die with your prophet if you do not embrace The Truth. Jesus.

    • Richard Lock says

      Jan 23, 2014 at 11:03 am

      And there lays the problem in religion, you say come to Christ or else…and that is what islam says. Are you any better than the man you attack? No.

  15. bonnie loranger says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 12:13 pm

    Abdullah,
    I res the Koran and now it is a door stop in my house. One of my cats even spry it. My cat is named after the prime minister of Israel. and his name is Bibi. He is very, very smart and obviously took a dislike to your “holly” book.

  16. panther says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 12:41 pm

    It is bloody ‘sharia law’ and nothing less in UK. The country has been sold to mohammedans, don’t hope for anything good from politicians the Britons themselves have to take their country back, it’s their fight, if they lose now to mohammedans it’s the common Briton who’ll suffer and not the politicians or bureaucrats.

  17. wakeup333 says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 12:47 pm

    There is no god, you brain-dead robot. One drop of human blood is worth more than all the Qurans on earth.

  18. dennis labadie says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 12:58 pm

    I HOPE SOME OF MYCANADIAN FRIENDS READ THIS AS CANADA IS BECOMING THE NEXT MUSLIM NATION.WAKE UP YOU DUM,DUM CANUCKS STOP THIS OUTRAGEST TAKE OVER OF OUR WONDERFUL CONTRY BY THESE PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE BACK RIDING CAMELS IF IT WHERE NOT FOR THE FREE DEMOCRATIC NATIONS,USA, CANADA, UNITED KINGDOM, AND MANY OTHERS. I COULD LIST MANY TIMES Iv INTERVEND MUSLIMS BEING RUDE IN OUR STORES,THROWING GARBAGE IN OUR STREETS,PLAZAS,AND NEIGHBROUR HOODS STAND UP TO THEM AND SAY SOMETHING AS THEY ARE COWARDS,ONLY BRAVE WHEN ONEOF THERE OWN BLOWS UP THEM SELVES,AND HIDE BEHIND A MASK.”” SORRY NOT BRAVE BUT STUPID””

  19. RICHTHOFEN says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 1:18 pm

    Tearing up a book is not an offence in the UK – apart from criminal damage if the book belongs to somebody else and they did not give permission for it to be torn up – the most he could be charged with is, possibly, littering – a caution or fixed-penalty offence. Any more than this would have to involve guessing what the offender had in mind when carrying out this act and, if no words were spoken, it would then come into the realms of a ‘thought crime’. Have we sunk to that level already? I feel that the police have other duties to attend to, or their cells will soon be full

  20. Kenny says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 1:53 pm

    Another embarrassing episode for Britain. What must we look like to the rest of the world, particularly America and Israel who we should be united with?

  21. Marbran says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 2:38 pm

    It takes us back to the same question: Are men like this ultimately responsible for the interpretations and/or violent actions of another? Should butchers henceforth be banned from processing beef on the grounds that it may insult Hindus’ ahimsa?

  22. Christo says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 2:45 pm

    What would they do to me then? I ripped up and burned one for a friend a few months ago

  23. Leigh says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 5:16 pm

    isn’t Burning Poppys and the uk flag inciting hatred in the UK ? and yet the police do nothing in case it offends ?
    This country has gone right down the shit pan .

  24. CW Warren says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 5:33 pm

    The UK better get their fill of bacon as it will likely be legally HARAM soon……..

    The times are a changin’……..

  25. David M says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 6:15 pm

    No book, no matter how vile should be destroyed. Rather, its contents should be laid bare, debated and if necessary ridiculed. The quran is no different. Anyone who has studied anything of this book will know that it is a work of fiction, no more divinely inspired than War and Peace.

  26. thomas_h says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 8:17 pm

    @ David M
    “No book, no matter how vile should be destroyed. ”
    Why?
    Is there anything holly about a book? Where from does a book derive its sanctity that forbids its destruction while other objects can be destroyed without much ado? How about destroying an obsolete telephone book? Or a pornographic book? Or exceptionally stupid book you bought by mistake and can’t find anyone willing to overtake it ? Are you stuck with it to the end of your days?
    Besides, destroying koran has a symbolic value, like wiping your shoes on a flag of an enemy. I don’t recommend forbidding koran. On the contrary. Koran should be continually printed in many copies and distributed freely for people to read and to dispose of it in a manner they feel fits its message best.

  27. gravenimage says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 8:32 pm

    Sharia in action in the UK: Man arrested for ripping up pages of Qur’an at soccer match
    ………………………………….

    I read about this at the time. This is appalling. The only “crime” he could be accused of in a sane place is littering.

    Britain is now *enforcing Shari’ah*.

  28. thomas_h says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 8:33 pm

    @Abdullah
    “Defacing the Noble Qur’an is an affront to a billion of Muslims. More than that, it is a affront to Allah himself“.

    He is a pig devouring a Word of God!

    WHAT???
    Allah “is a pig devouring a Word of God”???

    A strange thing to hear from a muhammedan…

  29. gravenimage says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 8:40 pm

    The absurd “Abdullah ibn Salam” wrote:

    Defacing the Noble Qur’an is an affront to a billion of Muslims. More than that, it is a affront to Allah himself.

    He is a pig devouring a Word of God!
    ………………………………….

    No one here believes that this vile murder-manual is the “Word of God”—in fact, many of us find *that* idea quite offensive.

    Mohammedans may believe that no one can criticize the Unholy Qur’an, but civilized Infidels disagree. I own a Qur’an—and as such, I an well aware of what an evil tome it is.

  30. Champ ✞ says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 9:51 pm

    “He is a pig devouring a Word of God!

    LIAR …

    The quran is NOT the word of God, but the handiwork of satan.

  31. pdxnag says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 10:24 pm

    If Muslim describes a race then does non-Muslim also describe a race?

    Could the government be forced to accept this second proposition because they argue for the first? I am thinking of the concept of judicial estoppel in a court proceeding.

    I do not think that non-Muslims need to be subdivided here because the hate – the race-hate – in the Koran readily lumps people into the class of Muslim and non Muslim. It need not be more complex than the al Shabaab line of inquiry at Westgate Mall. Muslim or non Muslim.

    Demand parity, demand that non Muslim be declared a race, for purposes of the race-hate law they seek to enforce. Then insist that the state object to the Koran for its intrinsic hate and incitement of violence based on that hate. Make them condemn Islam for its hate, its race-hate, and those who say it is good.

  32. john says

    Jan 22, 2014 at 6:50 am

    The koran is not the word of alla – it is the word of the Caliph Uthman and his committee (they also left out parts they did not like and ordered all copies burned that did not agree with them— not from alla as muslims believe but then muslims are the most gullible on the planet

  33. Alan Larocka says

    Jan 22, 2014 at 10:05 am

    What race is Islam? Surely there must be some evidence of the ‘racial’ ‘crime’?

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