Would Asif Masood have received this leniency if he had announced that he had converted to Christianity? Of course not. But probably what clinched the deal for him was that he claimed that he had been subjected to “harassment and threats.” In today’s Abject Britannia, that is the gold standard. Asif Masood has suffered from “Islamophobia”! Kill for him the fatted calf!
“Unlicensed drink-driver who was three times over the limit when he crashed his car avoids jail after court hears he has re-found Islam,” by Martin Robinson, MailOnline, February 25, 2015 (thanks to Mick):
An unlicensed drink-driver who was three times over the limit when he crashed a friend’s car has walked free after a court heard he had re-found Islam and was living a more pious life.
Asif Masood, 40, ploughed a Ford Focus into a fire hydrant in Nottingham after driving over a roundabout following a drinking binge on November 17 last year.
The car’s wheel had come off, while tyre tracks and debris criss-crossed the road, magistrates heard.
When police arrived he was found swaying near his wrecked vehicle and told officers: ‘I’ve crashed my car, I’ve had lots and lots to drink and I don’t have a driving licence.’
He was breathalysed and produced a reading of 98 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath – the legal limit is 35.
But Masood, who has nine previous convictions for 14 offences, walked free from court after magistrates heard he had re-found his faith and was now teetotal after quitting drink and drugs[.]
His solicitor added that the incident happened when Masood had been suffering ‘considerable stress related to harassment and threats’. …
somehistory says
This is just insane. He has been *drink* free for three months and that’s just dandy. And no license. Guess they’ll wish to give him one. And maybe lock up any person who even thinks of *harassing* him since he *re-found* his islam.
This world is headed for a conflagration and it won’t be pretty. Until it’s all over and done when the fires are out and the smoke has cleared.
mortimer says
Those were some serious charges. Hard to understand why no jail time was involved.
He’s what now? A serious jihadist? Is he planning to fight for ISIS? Attack a cartoonist?
somehistory says
All depends on which *version* he found….the regular, peaceful version, or the islamic, high octane, perverted version. And of course, as all honest people who are familiar with the whole of islam are aware, it’s all the same. So, he could, tomorrow, decide to use his car to take out a few infidels or he could revert back to drinking and driving just for the fun of it.
One can wonder, how many others who drink too much and drive will hear of this and *find* islam to get away with law-breaking.
Jerry says
According to the Qur’an and Hadith, there is no “regular peaceful version”.
We all know this but it never stops the O’bummer or his CoMoron.
No Fear says
Mohammed’s verison of Islam is the version to fear.
It involves beheadings, supremacism, rape, thieving and threatening.
It is the modern version of Islam that is mostly moderate.
The worst thing someone could possibly do is to ‘return to the original teachings’ of Islam as outlined by Mohammed.
gravenimage says
No Fear, there is no “modern version” of Islam—Islam is Islam.
There are only pious Muslims who fully apply themselves to Islam—the Jihadists and overt supporters of Jihad—and varying degrees of lax Muslims. And very few of these lax Muslims actually oppose Jihad and Shari’ah, even if they are not actively involved.
particolor says
If I was in that Rocket Scientists Country on a Drink Driving Charge and told the I had Re found Christianity they would race Me out the back and make Me a Foot Shorter !! 🙁
nothosaur says
I was a DUI prosecutor for 9 years, and now I defend.
Very rarely are DUI statutes written in a way that would lead a judge to give a jail sentence to a first time DUI offender.
Exceptions would include cases that involve personal injury or cases in which the defendant had prior DUI offense(s) on his record.
Ususally rehabilitation is the sentencing goal of the judge on the first DUI. In this news article the reporter was not specific about the defendant’s prior offenses. The reporter merely said nine of convictions / 14 offenses. Those could be merely seat belt or turn signal violations for all we know.
In my old jurisdiction, DUI with no valid drivers license would be a felony. For a first felony the statute directs the judge to favor probation over jail. There would be alcohol evaluation and treatment ordered and community service but prison would be withheld absent aggravating circumstances — e.g, recidivism or injury to victim.
It’s hard to discern whether this defendant’s religion played a part or whether it was evidence of alcohol abstinence after the crash.
Maybe a Bristish lawyer/barrister can tell us.
particolor says
BULLSHIT !! He was Pissed as a Parrot !! Probably thought the Fire Hydrant was an Infidel !! 🙁
Ephesian says
I don’t need to be a barrister to know that drink driving is an offence and being in charge of any motorised vehicle whilst under the influence of alcohol is an offence under the law of this land….except….if you’re a muslim.Of course,they don’t accept our laws do they and apparently now neither do we,or the judges.Sack them all!
rob774 says
Although I might get flamed for this I will add my input, but everybody, don’t shoot the messenger please.
In Britain it is highly unlikely that somebody would be given a jail sentence for drink driving on the first, second or third offence, if they are caught before they kill or injure somebody. What is more likely is a twelve month ban from driving in the first instance, a three year ban for the second and five years and possibly prison for the third.
The defence of I’m a victim because I am a Muslim is an easy and cheap one to play and I suspect the reason his solicitor used it, is to do with his previous offending. If he was up for the crime of drink driving and it was his first conviction then it is likely his solicitor would have told him to just suck it up and get on with it.
Recently I attended a course and the only Muslim on said course failed it. It took him five minutes to get over the shock and work out that he only failed because he is Muslim. I heard that he has officially accused the examiner of racism based on the fact that he claims the examiner didn’t allow him to see the answers to the test, while all the white people were helped.
I’ve been victimised is a really easy play.
gravenimage says
No flaming from me, Rob. Both your comments about lenient sentencing for drunk driving and fake Muslim victimhood are spot on.
cs says
“Zantorb, UK, United Kingdom, 5 hours ago
Wait a second… How is the fact he’s ‘refound Islam’ a reason not to face jail? Surely that’s prejudice and racist against us non Islamic, giving them a get of out jail free card?!”
3000 thumbs up, on the daily mail website.
cheekturner says
FFS. Unbelievable!!!!!! The court should be closed down and the Judge imprisoned. Oh but wait…who was the judge in this case? Would he/she have an un-British name perhaps? Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Mo says
How is that even LEGAL? What the blazes kind of legal system to they have going on over there?!
particolor says
Islamocracy !!
BlueRaven says
The UK law doesn’t work. It needs an urgent fix. This is amazingly official approach to convert criminals to Islam.
I give credit to the Muslims that they brought such a fine nation to its knees, if not slicing them off like an Italian Silami.
I am absulutely disgusted with our Western leadership. There is none standing up to this horror. Islam appears to be the flavor of the decade.
Who would have thought after 9/11, they would turn the tables on us. It was clear that 9/11 was about Islam is at war. We aint going to defeat this. Who is out there with a clear vision to defeat our enemy? I see no one.
mortimer says
Quite the rap sheet: Unlicensed drunk-driver who was three times over the limit when he crashed his car into a fire hydrant (public property)…who has nine previous convictions for 14 offences !!!
Something’s wrong!
particolor says
He’s a Victim with Brain Damage !!
Id Love a lend of His lawyer if I ever get in Shit like that !! 🙂
nothosaur says
“nine previous convictions for 14 offences !!!”
for what? Maybe 9 prior DUI convictions (not likely). Maybe 9 prior equipment violations. The reporter didn’t say
jay says
RIP Britain and Europe. To quote Ron Swanson, “It truly is a garbage continent”.
gravenimage says
Europe isn’t a “garbage continent”—it has given the entire civilized world its philosophical underpinnings. But right now it is being sold out to savages, and is facing a second dark age as a result.
Angemon says
For what? Being muslim? If so, isn’t this alleged “re-discovery” of islam only add to the problem and ensure he’ll be more harassed and threatened, thus having to drink more?
Jerry says
The “multiculturalists” would have given him a prize had he ploughed into a group of Jews walking to or from a synagogue.
JamesonRocks says
Unbelievable! But then, maybe Bishop Robert J. McManus can get his case revisited… 😉
particolor says
You cant be let off Twice for the same Crime !! 🙂
gravenimage says
UK: Drunk driver avoids jail after court hears he has rediscovered Islam
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I’m so sick of this sh*t—the idea that someone turning to Islam means that they are now highly moral. The truth is that *nothing* could be further from the truth.
The fact is that a pious Muslim is *much* more dangerous than a drunk driver.
Moreover, the fact that his being Muslim certainly didn’t seem to prevent him from racking up *nine citations and 14 offenses*. But hey—as long as trotting out a rededication to Islam works as a literal get out of jail free card, there will be plenty of scofflaws more than happy to use it.
pumbar says
He didn’t need to be sent to prison as he’d already rejoined the muzzies. It’s only non-muzzies that go to prison now, so they can be converted. It was all described in a series of “Tripod”novels by John Christopher.
No Fear says
I know what happened. He saw Mohammed depicted as a roundabout dog and he had an accident.
Salah says
These “magistrates” and their ike (academics, MSM, PC elites, etc.) are the real traitors. They are selling out our great civilization. They must face trial for high treason and, if convicted, EXECUTED.
Michael Warden says
Nice thought but one of the first things the Traitor Blair did when he was elected in 1997 was to abolish the Treason Act. Gosh, I wonder why ?
Charli Main says
As a ” born again Muslim” a clear case for giving him Sharia justice. A public 100 stroke lashing.
RICHTHOFEN says
A blatant miscarriage of justice! It warrants an investigation of the magistrates involved, together with the Crown Prosecution Service. This is clearly discrimination against the general public and shows extreme bias in favour of minority interests – this decision and sentence must be appealed, if only to show that justice is being seen to be done. On the few facts available, taking the allegations at face value, justice seems to be invisible in this case – a matter for considerable alarm and concern. There is a danger that this will become case law and many offenders may walk free as a result of an apparently perverse judgement
Moongara says
With a driving record like that I am not sure why anyone would do anything other than lock him up and throw away the key. Perhaps my opinion is colored a bit by a close call with a drunk driver a week or so ago but this is above and beyond the usual insanity…how do you ever let someone like that walk free? Drunk driving endangers everyone and everyone knows it is dangerous, what happened to concerns about public safety…who cares of he is Muslim or Christian or whatever, a drunk driver is a drunk driver and should simply be glad to walk away with their lives and without a murder charge. This is a new low even for y he UK.
Seer Maharg says
No, I don’t believe this story, it can’t possibly be true, someone’s telling a terrible lie.
Somebody made up this story just to make the british justice system look completely stupid.
Please, somebody in the government tell me, somebody in the legal profession tell me, anybody with more than three functioning brain cells tell me that this didn’t happen. If you can.
RIP Britannia.
particolor says
The Fire Hydrant has been Arrested for Jumping Out in front of a Moving Vehicle !! 🙁
Pauline Rouse says
Sounds like the judge is also so a convert to Islam. This is unbelievable!!
Maffi says
I wonder if Rolf Harris could use that option when he comes up in court next.
particolor says
Did He Refuse to eat the Prison Bacon ?
torino390 says
as a Brit, I find myself ashamed of what this country has become. I really don’t know what to do. the more of this shit I read, the more my head spins, the more anger I feel. I feel totally helpless. I want to fight, I want to let people know how I feel. I want to make it right again. but I also want to run away, and bury my head in the sand, and never read any more of this stuff. live in blissful ignorance. I don’t know which road to take. I want to cry. I am confused by it all. what will happen to the place I love? what will my kids have to deal with? what future do they have here? how can all this be happening? make it stop.
Ephesian says
Torino…you and me both.I find myself thinking I am living on a parallel universe,the world is turned upside down,right is wrong and wrong is right.Other British people I speak to just laugh crazily when I try to explain a little about the greatest threat to our country we have ever seen,islam,how we are inviting these killers into our midst,and most seem oblivious to it,totally.I’m afraid to say that I can only see one end to this,civil war,and it will not be pleasant but it will be necessary for our children’s sake and our grandchildren.Did our ancestors fight in two world wars and die so we could just curl up and hand over our freedoms,so hard fought for,so easily? No,we are made of sterner stuff,you know it.Always remeber the quote by Sir Winston Churchill..”Never give in.Never give in.Never,never,never,never….in nothing great or small,large or petty…..never give in,except to convictions of honour and good sense.Never yield to force.Never yield to the apparently overwhelming force might of the enemy” If our government won’t uphold this fine country then they leave us no choice but to defend it ourselves.
gravenimage says
I know how you feel, Torino. It helps to know that this was just the same during the rise of Fascism. Churchill and other prescient people alarmed by the Nazi threat were dismissed as cranks, hysterics, and even warmongers.
But the work of diplomats, journalists, and ordinary people alerting the free West eventually proved invaluable.
My mother and aunt served in the armed forces in Britain during WWII as very young women.
Of course, the specific circumstances of this threat are somewhat different—but then, they always are.
Don’t give up—you have a proud heritage!
dumbledoresarmy says
Torino.
Please, don’t give up. Look for allies. Look for places to strengthen what remains. Look for places where there are coals glowing under the ash, and feed them.
Join and support Gavin Boby’s “Law and Freedom Foundation”.
http://lawandfreedomfoundation.org/
Their website hasn’t put up a new article for a little while but there’s nothing to stop you contacting them and asking them how you can get involved.
Join the “Royal Society of Saint George”…and get yourself the Flag of Saint George, and fly it from your front window.
http://www.royalsocietyofstgeorge.com/
Join and support Paul Weston’s “Liberty Great Britain”.
http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/
If you’re a practising churchgoing Christian: spend Lent praying and fasting for the restoration and deliverance of Britain, the Island of the Mighty.
If you identify as Christian but haven’t been near a church for years…why not go back? Check out the local churches, find one where you’re happy, where people are welcoming…and once you’ve been attending for a while, and you’ve gotten to know people, start trying to find out how much they know about Islam. The two best books to give to the vicar or priest are by an Australian Anglican priest and scholar, Rev Dr Mark Durie – “Which God?” and “The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom”. If the church has any sort of contact with refugees from Islamic countries, try to get them to read Durie’s other book “Liberty to the Captives”.
If you’re nonreligious, think about a social or sporting or other interest/ cultural group in which you’re involved or would like to be involved, by which you can engage in cultural affirmation, and where you can network with people and – quietly, persistently – warn them about Islam.
The “Citizen Warrior” website (if you haven’t already come across it)
http://www.citizenwarrior.com/
has lots of good ideas about how to “get through” (and you can get a book from them – “Getting Through” – that is full of helpful tips, it’s intended for Americans but most of it can be readily ‘translated’ into other settings). I myself need to revisit those and have a good long think and then try to do a better job this year with the people I meet in real life and online.
torino390 says
thank you for the replies. believe me when I say I don’t want to give up, I really don’t. I have joined Liberty GB a while back. I always display the Union Jack. I try, oh how I try, to inform my friends and family about the dangers that face us. some listen, some pretend to listen, some are absolutely not interested. some even brand me as racist. well, if wanting to keep Britain British makes me racist, then so be it. some things are more important than childish name-calling. for the record I am not a religious person at all, far from it. I don’t have an issue with anyone wanting to believe anything they want, that is their right, as long as it affects no one else, I’m cool with that. but this Islam stuff is different. elements of it form a religious belief, but it runs way deeper than that. a total life system, with it’s own education/morality/finance/law/punishment systems all integrated into one totally and utterly 100% brainwashing technique that is so powerful it’s going to take some stopping. I will join any organisation trying to stop it’s progression, but what I’d really like to see is all these small groups unite as one, with a common cause. then we might actually be big enough to be heard.
Andrew GB says
WOO HOO!! Ker-ching!!!!
Now the secret is out I’m going right round to HSBC and make a withdrawal with my shot gun. If i get away with it all well and good.
If im caught well you know the rest……
Unfortunately I’m British, English and know the difference between right and wrong. Admitting to following gangster mo, isn’t going to be much of a defence.
supajohnny says
We in Britain are well and truly FUCKED.
particolor says
5 Bucks in the Jizra jar for swearing !! 🙂
pumbar says
No we’re not. Be ready to stand up and fight.
Sam says
You can not help an alcoholic if he does not want help. Mostly they don’t. Same with England. Let England go. We are right behind as we at JW all know.
gravenimage says
Sam wrote:
Let England go. We are right behind as we at JW all know.
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“Let England go”—really? As bad as things are there, Britain is no more than *5%* Muslim at this point, and you are willing to write her off? She is also hobbled with appeasers and those in denial—but this has happened before. This was *exactly* the situation in the lead up to WWII, and we all know that Britain eventually rose to the occasion—and did so bravely and brilliantly.
Are you really willing to abandon 60 million people to oppression and murder without a fight?
And even if you care nothing for the British, think about how an Islamic Britain would effect things in not just the rest of Europe, but in the US, in Canada, in Australia and New Zealand, and in the rest of the world. Don’t think an Islamic Britain wouldn’t make the chances of other Infidels exponentially grimmer.
And if you don’t make a stand now, how are our chances likely to improve from here on out? If you are the Sam who originally hailed from Turkey, you have a pretty good sense of how bad things can get for Infidels under Islam.
And it you are actually counseling surrender—rather than just suffering an understandable moment of despair during these grim times—then you are also an enemy of freedom whether that is your intent or not.
nothosaur says
Free Speech replied:
“Drunks are drunks . Driving a vehicle while intoxicated is the same thing as standing on a street corner randomly shooting at other vehicles with a 45. Drunk drivers who kill are murderers. Laws are much, much, much too archaic regarding drunk drivers. And, oh yeah, thanks for helping them get off so they can go out and kill someone next time.”
It must be tiresome living with such a simplified perspective.
In 2008, I prosecuted a DUI reckless homicide in which I recommended that the Defendant get 28 years prison, which was the maximum allowed by law. The judge gave him a 13 year sentence, which was the 2nd longest ever in that county. When the case calls for a long jail sentence, the argument can reasonably be made. When the case calls for a rehabilitative sentence, then the argument is less strong. If this British judge had taken religion into account in the courtroom where I practice, then he would have been subject to a judicial ethics complaint.
You seem to live in a cartoon world in which accusation = guilt. I’ve defended DUI in cases in which the jury agreed unanimously that the Defendant was not intoxicated or was not even the driver of the vehicle.
Try to unanimously convince 12 strangers that a Defendant was under the influence of alcohol. It’s not as easy as you seem to think with your flippant comments. Do some research.
Judi says
So, was this ‘born again muzrat’ fined or even banned? WTF is wrong with the UK. Also, I expect the bastard got legal aid. How much did that cost the taxpayers? Then I expect he went back to his council house, his 4 wives and 10 little cockroaches and had a good laugh about how he fooled the system yet again and what a lot of dhimmis we are!!
particolor says
I’m Afraid the “Harassment and Threats” will happen once more and He will take to the Turps Again !! 🙁
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
This is like when that Moslem dude got off for wife abuse in New Jersey. In that case the judge acceded to Sharia’s positronic influence on the matter of what was right and legal. Same here, the judge is operating on the assumption that Islam is a good thing, it has prohibition written right into it.
Islam has many prohibitions, just like it has many special rights. That’s the difference here. But the Constitution’s rule of equality before the law, they stated that there would be one law and all in equal justice by it.
So what in the hell does Islamic law matter here? Why are Moslems so special?
particolor says
Pigs like them ! They are no threat ! 🙂 And it looks like Judges like them now for the same reason ?
Tom Cook says
He needs to be introduced to “Old Sparky”. Electricity would cure this filthy mus.
Peggy says
Let the midnight special, shine a light on him.
Peggy says
Let the midnight special, snine a light on him.
M S case says
A drunk muslim…..Aw that couldn’t be.
jsjsjs says
only in UK … the naw capital of all crazy religious fanatics
Lioness says
I think I am going to puke. The bastard has no driver’s license and is stinking drunk behind the wheel, and in the UK it’s just fine, as long as he is Muslim. Even better his lawyer shoud have argued that he re-discovered Jihad, that would have elevated his status considerably, maybe even given him an award of some sort. What self-inflicting death idiots are running the UK.
particolor says
Turkey’s ?
Linda Rivera says
Traitors run Britain. They sold their souls and sold out our people to totalitarian, racist, imperialist, colonialist, supremacist, fascist Islam.
Dabigragu says
Linda,
I truly feel for the people of Britain.
M S case says
Linda You left out something RADICAL ISLAMIST… Seems that no one in the political arena, in the UK or US Or Europe in general want to use those words
frank rimkus says
I hope you publish the names of the magistrates!!!!
Linda Rivera says
Any excuse is accepted to have top favorite Muslims walk free from court. Sharia is strictly enforced in Infidel Britain. One law for adored Muslims. Another law for despised, hated non-Muslim indigenous Brits.
Proud English Infidel says
So that’s it then! Drink yourself into oblivion, perhaps murder a few people, commit armed robbery etc etc, and then play your trump card!
I’ve discovered islam!
And then walk free…..
In another scenario, a Christian who drove at 32 mph in a 30 mile zone would have the book (the Koran) thrown at him, told what a kuffur he was, and then send him on an equality and diversity course as he argued with the muslim policeman who booked him !!!!!