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

Feb 8, 2014 2:27 pm By Robert Spencer

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If Mark Stephenson had torn and thrown pages of the Bible, would he be charged? Or have the British authorities simply taken it upon themselves to prosecute violators of Sharia blasphemy laws? In light of the fact that they have charged Stephenson and banned Pamela Geller and me from entering the country, it is all the more imperative that they free Mohamed Jamal Miah and every other Muslim who is in prison in the UK immediately for doing something that would be taken for granted as acceptable behavior back home. David Cameron needs to end this Islamophobic inconsistency, get that cross off the flag, and declare Britain a fully Sharia-compliant state forthwith. It’s long overdue.

An update on this story. “Man charged after ‘Koran ripped up at football match,'” from the BBC, February 8 (thanks to John):

A man has been charged after pages were allegedly torn from the Koran and thrown during a football match.

Police said the incident happened on 7 December at a game between Birmingham City and Middlesbrough at St Andrews.

Mark Stephenson, 25, from Napoleon Drive, Bicton Heath, Shrewsbury, has been charged with causing racial or religiously-aggravated harassment.

He will appear at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court on 28 February.

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  1. Gleaner1 says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 4:40 pm

    I hope this lad’s got good Koranic knowledge or a lawyer who has, because this Sharia enforcement by the Sharia police has NO place in Britain, he must fight this and win before we all start doing it, and really i think we must, it’s a case of the state crushing this harmless objection and risking real violence or arson, will the oppressive police be spared – no, i don’t think they will.

  2. JamesonRocks says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 4:57 pm

    The poor man probably just needed some toilet paper…

    • Kenny says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 7:40 am

      And what an excellent source of toilet roll that it is!

      • JessieJames says

        Feb 9, 2014 at 8:14 am

        It also makes excellent liner for the bottom of the bird cage.

    • marky says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 8:13 am

      As usual when someone mentions using the quran for toilet paper, I would remind you that your supposed to clean your butt not make it more dirty 🙂

  3. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 5:37 pm

    This dude was careless, probably he foolishly believes in free speech.

    Me, I always keep a copy of the Holy Ko-Ran in my bathroom. I use only the best editions printed on the softest and most pliable paper. There also is a pair of scissors on the stand, for removing a page or two for the wiping, in the privacy of my own home.

    You know what they say about Number Two, it can be so satisfying. Well, throw in couple of pages of Allah and double your pleasure. Ahhh.

    • JessieJames says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 8:17 am

      I always take a koraan with me on field trips, it makes excellent fire starter.

  4. London Jim says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 5:57 pm

    I’d hate to think what he would be charged with if he’d ripped a copy of 1984. . Sheesh. Is this Aceh already ?

  5. Sovereign Man says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 6:22 pm

    There is an enemy in the West, who poses a more urgent threat than the mobs of illiterate Muslim migrants. That enemy is the traitorous government regime that would enforce medieval blasphemy laws for a foreign, violent, political religion and prosecute its own citizens. The growing PC police state serves only itself, and ensures the destruction of the nation it rules over.

    A Free Man will know what to do when faced with tyranny.

  6. Lisa says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 7:40 pm

    My country is ruled by immigrants. Literally.

    How did things get so bad. Why are the police deranged, far-Left nazis.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Feb 8, 2014 at 10:57 pm

      Hi Lisa.

      I’ve been away from the threads for awhile – have just been reading back through the archives, and I came across your first (?) posting, in a thread from January 31.

      I just had to reply to you, in hopes of cheering you up a bit and encouraging you to keep on keeping on.

      If you want to read what I said, just go to that discussion and scroll down till you find your posting; that’s where you’ll find my comments.

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/01/the-spencer-geller-ban-truth-is-hate-crime-in-camerons-britain

      Incidentally, I’m sure you ‘ve seen one “London Jim” in this thread, and there’s another Englishman who posts here regularly, called “Logdon”; and then there’s an English lady poster called “Jan”, very stalwart.

      You might like to find some way of getting in touch with them, outside of this forum.

      • logdon says

        Feb 9, 2014 at 5:57 am

        I am that very man.

        There are also many logdon equivalents in England for whom this situation is becoming intolerable.

        Although I’m usually against this sort of childish stuff, times demand some retaliation.

        This chap needs 100, 500, 1,000 supporters outside court, each with a Q’uran and at an appointed time rip the thing to shreds.

        The Spartacus moment. And a good lawyer would help, citing Piss Christ (and all the rest) as precedent.

        Then watch the fireworks. Will plod arrest them all?

        • gungadin says

          Feb 9, 2014 at 6:36 am

          I’m “across the pond” and cheer on your efforts.

          We have similar problems happening here almost daily. Time for the world to get their heads out of their collective “butts” and observe how our freedoms are being taken away by spineless lawmakers.

    • Kenny says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 7:49 am

      Because we’ve allowed it to be so with the vast majority of the population being brainwashed by the spurious ‘religion of peace’, mantra.

      The basic truth is that British citizens have been willing accomplices into being cowed into submission by being to scared to stand up for our own culture.

      For a case in point, look to dwindling church attendances. Even if people are not particularly religious they should support Christian institutions in a country which is founded on Christian principles.

      Stand against ideological brainwashing. If we all make some sort of protest, no matter how small, it all mounts up. Alternatively, look back to the last civilised European nation which allowed itself to be brainwashed and what happened as a result!

      You have a choice and a voice. Use them before it’s too late.

    • Kenny says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 7:57 am

      ” Far left Nazis”. At first that sounds a strange oxymoron. However, when one thinks about it, it pretty much sums up the ‘1984’, world that we live in!

      Orwell update;

      There is no love except love of Sharia,
      There is no loyalty except loyalty to diversity,

      All competing pleasures we shall destroy!

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 11, 2014 at 12:14 am

      Lisa, like Dumbledore’s Army, I replied to you on that thread, as well:

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/01/the-spencer-geller-ban-truth-is-hate-crime-in-camerons-britain/comment-page-1#comment-1004024

      Don’t give up—we stand with you!

  7. London Jim says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 8:01 pm

    Anyone with half a brain would look to the likes of Andrew Roberts to level the equation.

  8. Jay Boo says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 8:05 pm

    A Quran and a set of darts = 1 holey book.

    • JessieJames says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 8:22 am

      one koran and 5 or 6 well placed shots from my 9MM = one holy koran.
      I use them for target practice all the time.

      • Jay Boo says

        Feb 9, 2014 at 12:32 pm

        JesseJames
        I think you made a typo since there is nothing ‘holy’ about the Koran.
        In this context the spelling should be ‘holey’ as in full of holes.

  9. English Briar says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 9:12 pm

    As a son of a mother from Kent and a WWII father from Kentucky, the only thing I can say is when the crown was kicked out of the Colonies in the 1700’s, the mistake of the British commoner made was that they didn’t ask the American Patriots to help them clean up England. The problem the corrupt Obama and Democratic politicians have in America is our 2nd Amendment rights. Obama has increased the number of households owning guns by the millions. Something I’m sure he never intended. The liberals in America would love to disarm Americans, but it is way too late for that. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to own weapons and protect one’s self are the fundamental building blocks of a Republic. It appears you have lost all.

    • Philip says

      Feb 8, 2014 at 10:27 pm

      So true and sad. We only think that Europe is free West. They are the most chained ones. And their government has sold and f..d them up big time.

  10. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 10:40 pm

    It was at a *football match*.

    Was it daytime? Night-time?

    Thousands of screaming fans, everybody’s supposed to be focusing on what’s happening down in the field, and yet someone somehow manages to see just one person, among the crowd (I’m assuming he was one of the spectators) ripping a few pages of the Quran??? And what’s more, they *know* that it’s pages from the Quran. Was it the Arabic Quran or an English translation? If it was an English translation in paperback – say, the Penguin version, which is the most readily available – how could they tell what it was, anyway?

    What *I’d* like to know is: *who*, precisely , dobbed this man in???

    Has *that* been mentioned in any of the reports on this case?

  11. Salah says

    Feb 8, 2014 at 11:20 pm

    Video
    Egyptian Muslims rip pages of the Qur’an, burn it and urinate on it:

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

  12. fair_dinkum says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 12:04 am

    lets hope they dont make an example of him.
    the hypocrisy and hate of moslems.. they treasure the koran over human life and we see many stories of ‘blasphemers’ stoned or beheaded in dar al islam for much less..

    moslems enslave and rape English girls, they have kidnapped and tortured young men/boys to death. (Glasgow springs to mind) they behead British soldiers in the street in broad daylight. they clog cities with friday prayers in the streets. freedom of speech destroyed. ans speakers against islam banned from entering.

    they RAPE and MURDER with impunity.

    and now this. no wonder so many brits are trying to immigrate. its now a pro moslam country.

    its sad. the British and the English have thousands of years of a very rich, individual, important heritage, history and cultures. that stretch back way before islam. from Boudicca to Gen. Montgomery and from Henry to Nightingale, its a huge, fascinating thing.

    but now so appeasing because of some irrelevant guilt over who they were in Victorian times.. yes it was the last Empire. but the ‘moors’ still celebrate the Ottoman Empire and the vicious deeds of so many sultans.

    mullahs have variously cited Spain as theirs. France as theirs. (the above heritage etc of the Brits applies to France too).

    why pay for anything in the past, today? why cheapen this?

    This happy breed of men, this little world,
    This precious stone set in the silver sea,
    Which serves it in the office of a wall,
    Or as a moat defensive to a house,
    Against the envy of less happier lands,
    This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

    The nations not so blest as thee
    Must, in their turn, to tyrants fall,
    While thou shalt flourish great and free:
    The dread and envy of them all.

    Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!
    Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.

    The English, traditionally, take to the streets and riot when oppression and tyranny become too much. i still havent given up on this. its gotten to that stage England. and well beyond.

    • English Briar says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 9:25 am

      You have already become slaves. Another commenter spoke of Dearborn, Michigan. Yes there is a large community of Muslims in Dearborn, but a very small group compared to the population of America. Once again, the American power is in freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to be armed. Thanks to Obama, many more Americans are armed now than they were before he took office. There have been some politicians who have implied supporting Sharia law, but they are short lived and voted out. America votes for the Presidency and the complete Congress. It’s my understanding that the Brits can only vote for part of the Parliament. The 2014 elections will see many Democrat Senators and House Congressmen booted out because of their support of Obama’s socialist agenda.

      • fair_dinkum says

        Feb 9, 2014 at 9:36 pm

        im Australian.

        our police and ministers reinforcing that there is no higher law in Oz than Australian law…. though for how long is yet to be seen.

  13. Defcon 4 says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 1:44 am

    I wonder when this will be coming to the US? I wonder if it’s already in the
    US — in Dearbornistan, Michigan.

  14. robiekop says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 5:29 am

    The Brits are really disgusting. I sincerelly hope that the Scots vote for independency and that the Brits are expelled form the Security Council, being a small and insignificant country.

    • logdon says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 6:09 am

      Your comment is misplaced.

      If anything, the Scots are even more islamophilic than us lot, south of the border. And it’s not limited to the dhimmi leaders or police. The rank and file seem to also be in the thrall.

      Try googling Alex Salmond’s view on Islam and you’ll be in for a horrible surprise.

      Here’s a starter

      https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=snp+on+islam&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb&gws_rd=cr&ei=UGH3UpLvMO3H7AbloIHADw

      • logdon says

        Feb 9, 2014 at 6:22 am

        PS.

        Maybe also check this out. No one is immune.

        http://pamelageller.com/2014/02/arabic-1-language-spoken-refugees-admitted-us-obama-reign.html/

        So according to your theory, is it a case now that in view of Stephen Harper’s heroic stance in Canada and Obama’s islamo leanings in the US, should Canada arm the border and declare American’s persona non grata?

        That’s the equivalent.

        To clarify, Obama does not speak for you, and similarly, Cameron does not speak for me. Or the bulk here who think my way

        The gap isn’t between our western nations but between the leaders of those nations and the citizens they purport to represent.

        That’s the problem.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 11, 2014 at 12:35 am

          Spot on, Logdon. The fact is that the whole of the West is in trouble—but I believe there is still time to turn things around.

          By the way, I’m an American, but my mother was English and I have relatives there.

    • Kenny says

      Feb 9, 2014 at 2:53 pm

      That’s a little rough on the general Brit population. Many of us despair at the conformity to Islam we see all too often. So why exactly are we “disgusting”? That’s really disappointing to hear from, presumably, a civilised American who should know better. A “small and insignificant”, country we may be, but one that has always stood with America. PS if Scotland does leave the union we are no longer “Brits”, as the union defines us as Britain. Look up the 1707 Act of union.

  15. Richard Hart says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 1:02 pm

    I must admit I’m quite surprised by the charges levelled at Mr Stephenson. I felt sure the CPS would have attempted to prosecute him for trying to incite violence. Having said that, there’s nothing new about whining Muslims playing the poor put on victims is there? #BreakingIslamabad….

  16. loach says

    Feb 9, 2014 at 1:37 pm

    If the man had turn up a page of the Bible or any other religious book noting would have been said of it . And he would not be in court .

  17. Geordie says

    Feb 10, 2014 at 12:29 pm

    ” David Cameron needs to …. get that cross off the flag, and declare Britain a fully Sharia-compliant state forthwith. It’s long overdue.”

    Over my dead body!

  18. Geordie says

    Feb 10, 2014 at 12:39 pm

    Let it be known by all, that I have used pages from the bible and the koran to wipe my backside on numerous occasions. In my opinion adding a little more shit to the contents of either volume is completely acceptable when done without prejudice or concern for the superstitions of religionists. I’ve never done it in a football stadium because they always have plenty toilet paper.

    The current craze of burning said books is a waste of good biodegradable paper.

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