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UK: Man sentenced to slave labor for “grossly offensive” “anti-Muslim” remarks

Aug 10, 2016 11:12 am By Robert Spencer

What did Stephen Bennett say? “Don’t come over to this country and treat it like your own. Britain first.” Other than that, all we get are vague characterizations of what he wrote, as apparently the Manchester Evening News doesn’t want to be hauled up on charges itself for reporting about what he said. So we hear instead that “one comment he made concerned Asian women, another was likely to be offensive to Muslims.”

For that, he got “a 12-month community order, with 180 hours’ unpaid work.” Unpaid work is slave labor. For the crime of offending Muslims. It doesn’t appear, at least from this report, that he called for any violence; he was just grousing and saying that Muslims in the UK should obey UK laws, which is a perfectly reasonable demand.

By punishing Stephen Bennett for this, Britain has shown that it is no longer a free country, but a country ruled by dhimmis anxious to bow to their Muslim overlords. If Muslims in Britain make remarks that non-Muslims consider “grossly offensive,” would they be prosecuted and sentenced to slave labor? What do you think?

Said Bennett: “Is this about that Muslim thing on Facebook? I’m getting locked up for sticking up for my own country.” Quite so.

Note also how everyone concerned discusses whether or not Bennett is a “racist.” What race is Islam again? What race is jihad? No matter how many times I’m told, I can never remember.

Stephen Bennett

“Online troll caught out after posting ‘grossly offensive’ anti-Muslim comments on police Facebook page,” by Chris Osuh, Manchester Evening News, August 5, 2016:

An online troll ended up in the dock after posting comments ‘grossly offensive’ to Muslims on a police website.

Dad-of-seven Stephen Bennett, 39, made inflammatory remarks on Greater Manchester Police’s Facebook page, in response to an appeal for information in a sex case with an Asian suspect.

One comment he made concerned Asian women, another was likely to be offensive to Muslims.

Bennett, of Wythenshawe, also wrote: “Don’t come over to this country and treat it like your own. Britain first.”

He made the comments despite his mother-in-law and sister-in-law being Muslims, his lawyer told the court.

The response sparked outrage from Facebook users who feared his remarks would set people against each other.

When Bennett was arrested by officers in an 8am house call, he said: “Is this about that Muslim thing on Facebook? I’m getting locked up for sticking up for my own country.”

Bennett later admitted an offence under the Malicious Communications Act….

One Muslim witness told police he was concerned the ‘irresponsible’ comments would ‘incite hatred’ and be a ‘potential tool for radicalisation’.

Another Muslim personally offended by the remarks challenged Bennett online, telling him ‘act your age’.

People in the wider community were also offended, prosecutor Gavin Howie told court, with one female Facebook user describing his remarks as ‘offensive to all women’.

Mr Bennett’s lawyer, Andrew Higginson, said his actions were ‘difficult to explain’, adding: “There’s more to him than what one sees on Facebook.

“It’s a sad indictment of the state of our social and political discourse that whilst one is shocked, one is not particularly surprised comments like this are posted.

“It’s increasingly common for comments posted on social media to be featured in criminal cases. These platforms provide an amount of anonymity. People can say things they wouldn’t dream of saying face to face.

“His mother-in-law and sister-in-law are Muslims, he gets on with them very well. He has insisted he does not have racist sympathies, he struggles to explain it.

“It may be that the more people are exposed to offensive opinions, the more they are normalised to people who then feel it’s acceptable for them to post them.”

Sentencing, Recorder Andrew Long told Bennett he found it ‘impossible to believe’ he would have posted the ‘grossly offensive’ comments unless he was ‘at least a sympathiser’ with those who expressed such views.

The judge said ‘running the risk of stirring up racial hatred in the present climate’, was ‘very serious’ describing it as ‘conduct capable of playing into the hands of the enemies of this country’.

Sentencing him to a 12-month community order, with 180 hours’ unpaid work, the judge added: “Your remarks damaged the community in which you live, and it’s the community that you must repay.”

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  1. abel & solomon says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 11:22 am

    Part Nine; The Way to Kill the Beast (from The Undoing, get your free copy, see below)

    A quest for the truth
    These days anyone who criticizes Islam is branded an Islamophobe. In fact, all that most of the so called Islamophobes are actually doing is expressing an informed concern that Islam poses a real threat to our free democratic society. The Islamic State has frequently justified its reign of terror by referring to the Koran and Hadiths, and what their leaders say appears to be theologically correct. If Islam were truly a religion of peace then their sacred book would surely make them peace loving, filled with love and inner tranquility. But it doesn’t. Some of the terrorists reportedly know the Koran off by heart so it can’t be verses of peace and love going round in their heads as they murder innocent people. The Koran says what it says about terror and no one can ever change it. There is no point refusing to accept the truth; we have to deal with it for the sake of the future of our free society. We have to focus all conflict into a debate about ideas and ideals and stop it being a physical conflict. The ongoing failure by our governments to do this is causing a groundswell of true Islamophobia that fuels right wing groups who are more than willing to overstep the boundary of peaceful protest. That helps no-one.

    Peace, love and respect
    It is clear that the Koran incites terrorism; terrorists read it before going out on mission. While people believe in Islam and propagate it, and the Koran is read, terror will continue. Misfits with aggressive tendencies are easily drawn to Islam, which through Jihad, offers them a religious justification and focus for their violence. Because it’s all done in the name of Islam & Allah, in obedience with the Koran, all other moral considerations go out the window. If we don’t speak up now and point out what is theologically and factually wrong with their religion, more and more young Muslims will fall into the snare of radicalisation. Many Muslims have been indoctrinated with Islamic beliefs that cause them to despise our Western values; (4:144) “Take not for friends, non-Muslims”, (9:107) “they are indeed all liars”, (28:86) “never be a helper to the disbelievers”, (76:24) “obey not…any…non-Muslim” (Even the police, or the authorities, or any non-Sharia law!) Islam hates the West, our free lifestyle and values, it very actively teaches that hatred to millions of Muslims.

    Can a tolerant society overcome intolerance?
    The Koran teaches Muslims that they will be successful and that non-believers are losers. The statement (47:32) “those who disbelieve…the way of Allah…He will make their actions fruitless”, can be pragmatically scrutinised and proved false. There is not a single Islamic nation in the world’s ten most prosperous by overall GDP. Indonesia is the first Islamic nation coming in 16th just ahead of the rather unreligious Netherlands who have a similar GDP but a population nineteen times smaller. And it is not because Muslims are not hard working, it is because Islamic culture and Sharia law hinder economic growth. Are there not thousands of Muslims begging, risking their lives to get to Europe, the USA and Australia to find work? Many non-Muslim countries are more prosperous than Islamic nations, this is an undeniable fact. We have to show Muslims the Koran is wrong. As soon as Muslims understand that the Koran is not perfect and infallible, they will start to doubt that it is the word of God, and then their confidence in carrying out jihad will fall rapidly. It really is as simple as that.

    Human Rights and human wrongs
    Islam was invented in the Dark Ages by a man raised in pagan Spiritism, initiated as a medium to talk with demons, who became a religious warlord. During his life he killed thousands, beheading hundreds of Jews in a single day, he had sex slaves and a child bride, he even burned people alive in their homes for not attending his religion’s prayers. After his death, the religion was propagated by war taking over a large part of the earth, its advance was only stopped by the greater power of the Europeans, in Africa and Asia as well in Europe. As Islamic culture never underwent anything like the Reformation or the Enlightenment, its holy book, the Koran, was never subject to the kind of logical scrutiny that the Jewish Torah and Christian Bible have been put through. It is only now in our day that critical attention is uncovering its violent, xenophobic and misogynist prescriptions. In fact, its content does not even stand the test of truth, it contains grave errors of scientific, historical and literary fact, gross failures of logic and much self-contradiction. A book that claims itself to be perfect and infallible, but is so full of flaws, lies even, it cannot possibly be the dictated word of an all wise God. Its Allah wants followers to destroy, kill and plunder all who disagree with it, its Prophet promises each of them a personal demon; this is not faith as we recognize it. Today, Islam and its holy book fail the test of reason which it should have been subjected to centuries past, and as a result can only fall. It is only a matter of how long, it is up to us in the West to decide whether it will be a slow torturous demise, full of barbarity from Islamist groups like ISIS and Boko Haram, or whether it will be a sudden information technology driven worldwide social transformation.

    Islam undone
    Even Mohammed foresaw the end of Islam, he said; “Verily Islam started as something rare and it would again revert to being rare and would recede… as a serpent crawls back into its hole “, “my people…they will swerve from the religion…. the book of Allah…they will have nothing to do with.”

    For a free copy copy of The Undoing:Islam by its own words, a book which is now being read in very high places follow this link;- http://abelandsolomon.simplesite.com/424568444

    • Judy says

      Aug 10, 2016 at 4:35 pm

      The judge added: “Your remarks damaged the community in which you live, and it’s the community that you must repay.” How is this possible? HE damaged the community? Raping, killing and SO many other violent atrocities are NOT damaging? I truly fear for the Western world when our ‘leaders’ make these kinds of statements.

    • Peter Charles says

      Aug 10, 2016 at 8:42 pm

      It is clear, Churchill is desperately needed, the fascists are in GB’s streets already.

      • Pong says

        Aug 11, 2016 at 1:01 am

        Trump has a rational understanding of islamic threat and yet hilary, who is going to flood america with moslems is more likely to be elected. Churchill would be crucified today by the msm for his anti-moslems’ remarks. I cannot imagine Churchill would be popular with negros, young unmarried women, welfare recipients and academia. Can you? Half of the country wouldn’t vote for him only because he was a smoker. That is how shallow people have become.
        The baby boomers brought up a generation of lazy, illiterate individuals, who never think for themselves, get all ideas from tv shows and are morally bankrupt. Today, Churchill would not have a chance.

        • Alvin Woods says

          Aug 11, 2016 at 10:34 am

          *negros*

          This site is attracting too many white supremacists.

        • Mirren10 says

          Aug 11, 2016 at 12:41 pm

          Alvin Woods says:

          ”*negros*

          This site is attracting too many white supremacists.”

          What, exactly, is ‘white supremacy’ about using the term negroes, apart from Pong’s misspelling ? ‘Negro’ is simply Spanish for black. Would you be OK with the term ‘blacks’ ?

        • Western Canadian says

          Aug 12, 2016 at 12:48 pm

          “Lanya LaPunta says
          August 11, 2016 at 11:48 am

          Baby boomers were raised by the “greatest generation”, wherein baby boomers pay have paid, since Ronnie “the commie” Reagan, 15.3% of their “off the top” income to support the “greatest generation” that, over the course of their working lives, paid in under 5%.

          :”Greatest generation” indeed.”

          The utter stupidity and ignorance of this posters drivel, is absolutely astounding….. Anyone who refers to Reagan as a ‘commie’, is much too stupid to have any valid opinions.

      • Lia says

        Aug 11, 2016 at 2:29 am

        Does Mrs May know about this?

      • Marty says

        Aug 11, 2016 at 11:56 am

        Not just CHurchill.
        In the 19th century Gladstone waved a koran in Parliament
        & claimed (rightly) that while tis book exists there will be no
        peace.

    • Polk1970 says

      Aug 10, 2016 at 11:17 pm

      Britain has been CONQUERED

      • Western Canadian says

        Aug 12, 2016 at 12:49 pm

        There ‘leaders’ have been.

  2. Alvin Woods says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 11:30 am

    Wow. Ive witnessed muslim pakistanis in Euston London blockade a road with a stolen car, throwing bricks and shouting “white cunts” at the white people.

    Please note, this was a couple of hundred yards from the Euston station transport police office. A cop car showed up, told them to move the car and drove off. Leaving shop owners to fend for themselves.

    • Hindu American says

      Aug 10, 2016 at 11:45 am

      Job done. muslims protected. Tea time, anyone?

    • Lexa456 says

      Aug 11, 2016 at 2:16 am

      Everybody owns a Smartphone with awesome abilities these days. Capture everything on camera and put in on Youtube. Post links all over the Internet! People should do it all the time. Show the world the reality of being forced to live with/among this muslim scum. That is how they will discredit themselves.

      • Alvin Woods says

        Aug 11, 2016 at 10:35 am

        I agree. But this incident happened in 2001, there were no smartphones then.

    • Kenny says

      Aug 11, 2016 at 3:51 am

      That’s because it’s his ‘Human right’, to do so, surely?

  3. mortimer says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 11:33 am

    Bennett made the mistake of criticizing an individual, rather than an ideology. Today, criticizing Christians is acceptable in UK, but not the criticism of Muslims. For some reason, the British are now blind to the fact that Islam is a political ideology. They have been convinced that Islam is a ‘race’, even though it is clearly not a race.

    Bennett is being criticized for being a racist, when, of course, he is not. A good lawyer could prove he is not a racist and that Islam is an ideology. Encouraging people to integrate should not be controversial.

    • pdxnag says

      Aug 10, 2016 at 12:23 pm

      But isn’t criticism of Islam a criticism of dead Mohammad and/or Allah personally?

      • linnte says

        Aug 10, 2016 at 12:41 pm

        I sure hope so!

    • Polk1970 says

      Aug 10, 2016 at 11:24 pm

      Yet they use BS euphemisms such as “Asian/,African “

    • UNCLE VLADDI says

      Aug 11, 2016 at 2:17 am

      So you can only criticize “the Mafia,” but not the individual Mafiosis attacking you?!

  4. Jay Boo says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 11:33 am

    “in response to an appeal for information in a sex case with an Asian suspect.”
    —————————————————————————–

    THREE prosecutors have resigned from MUSLIM Rape Gang case.
    How pathetic is that?

    I am surprised that more British are not rising up in full armed rebellion against their disgusting dhimmified leadership.

    • Alvin Woods says

      Aug 10, 2016 at 1:40 pm

      Because to rise up would give the powers that be the very excuse they need to implement their master plan, which is full blown totalitarianism.

      Better to fix this nonsense in the ballot box, we already gave them a good kick in the balls with the Brexit.

    • Nigel GFF says

      Aug 10, 2016 at 2:16 pm

      The ‘authorities’ always say ‘Asian’ men/perps but never (underlined) Muslim. How refreshing to see this direct link!
      Well done all.

      • Nigel GFF says

        Aug 10, 2016 at 2:37 pm

        I neglected to say how appalled I am by this sorry tale.

  5. Michael Laudahn says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 11:35 am

    I can certainly not say how effective this is, but I have made it a habit to comment on the Daily Mail. Quite often, you can get your non-pc comments published, provided comments are permitted (most of the time) and ‘not moderated’ (much of the time).

    However, even when they are ‘not moderated’, a word-seeking snoopware runs in the background. So if your comment contains ‘problematic’ words like jihad, sharia or also certain english words, you should insert spaces, develop alternative spellings, and the like.

    If a comment doesn’t get through the first time, you can forget about this one; retroactive changes won’t repair your ‘error’. And no URLs, instead write ‘google for (title)’. Good luck!

  6. Hindu American says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 11:43 am

    The opposite of “Don’t come over to this country and treat it like your own. Britain first” will be “please come over as and when you want, and treat it like you would treat your home country that you escaped from. Oh, by the way, Britain after sharia.” This will get you invited to Buckingham Palace, feted by the mayor of London and a lifetime of dole.

  7. Just A Concerned Citizen says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 11:47 am

    “Likely to be offensive to Muslims.”

    Considering that the Muslim default setting is ‘outraged/offended,’ this read like the latest dispatch from the No Shit Clinic.

  8. AnneCrockett says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 11:54 am

    This is veering into Stalinist USSR territory. You will be arrested now for your unacceptable political opinions, thoughts, and words.

    • Alvin Woods says

      Aug 10, 2016 at 1:42 pm

      *veering* is the correct wording. A dozen more jihad attacks and an increase in the nationalist parties may tip western governments into full blown Stalinism.

  9. El Cid says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 11:56 am

    I am offended by Muslims who reject Western culture and insist on living here and demand special treatment. I am offended by Muslims who wouldn’t ever demonstrate against Islamic Terrorism killing their own people, but will demonstrate against a stupid cartoon or film.

  10. R Russell says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 12:09 pm

    When I make comments in situations like this I try to direct readers to the Koran and Hadiths, quoting in context and inviting readers to check it is in context. I often give links to the exact page. I also draw attention to Islamic beliefs like hijrah, dawah, fitna Dar al Harb and Dar al Islam muruna and taqiyya..etc. That way readers are introduced to what Islam is and not even Muslims can ‘taqiyya’ their way out of it. It has to be done cleverly to avoid breaking the law but being accurate enough for readers to see what they are up against.
    I also make a comparison between Muslims dying, being martyred for Allah as the only way to be sure of entering Jannah (Paradise, heaven) and the Jesus of the Bible (not of the Koran) dying for our sins so we can enter Christian heaven relying on his sacrifice for us. I know which sacrifice I prefer.

  11. Dan says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 12:18 pm

    Maybe he’s being forced to do unpaid labor to compensate for all the social/tax dollars wasted on a particular group of immigrants that seem hell bent on not working.

    • Carolyne says

      Aug 11, 2016 at 11:03 am

      Isn’t unpaid labor sort of what the Nazis did? Does the EU (Of which the UK is still a member) not think this is a violation of human rights? Didn’t the US fight a war to free people who were forced to work without compensation? Is the old plantation back, British style?

  12. pdxnag says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 12:20 pm

    They are in full hyperventilation mode. It is also how they bark about all things Trump.

    The least offensive thing I can say about it is that they might be only as overtly totalitarian and violent as is necessary to get you to shut up. Think of it as an Islamist doing you the courtesy of giving you a warning about what could cause you to lose your head. Due process here means you have been warned.

  13. Alien Republican says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 12:36 pm

    ““Your remarks damaged the community in which you live, and it’s the community that you must repay.”
    —
    They get it all wrong. The influx of culturally incompatible groups destroys “social cohesion”. Remember, the left is all about destruction social cohesion (the tribe, the nation, the family) and replacing them with a dependence on the “social” state.

  14. ECAW says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 12:44 pm

    I hope Robert Spencer is not going to continue with this “slave labour” idea.

    Unpaid work under a community order is slave labour in the same way that a fine is robbery, incarceration is kidnap and exwcution is murder.

    • Ursula says

      Aug 11, 2016 at 2:10 am

      It is slave labour, because he has done nothing wrong at all. A fine is robbery if you haven’t broken the law, incarceration is kidnap when you don’t deserve it, and execution is murder if you were wrongly convicted.

      Britain is supposed to have freedom of speech. If a Muslim would have said the very same things about white Britons, NOBODY would have even blinked an eye. They’re making an example of him, to shut up conservative men and women, who actually object to their country becoming a Muslim country.

      • linnte says

        Aug 11, 2016 at 11:10 am

        For ECAW, it is slave labor. Working above and beyond normal lawful terms is exploitative and wrong. Yes they are criminals, but they are also human. And remember, the prisons are PRIVATELY owned too, which is how they get away with this.

    • Carolyne says

      Aug 11, 2016 at 11:08 am

      Being forced to work without compensation is slave labor. Some taxes are income confiscation. In fact the US fought and won a war because of taxation without representation. The US fought and won a civil war which ended forced labor without compensation. So your problem is?

    • Noel says

      Aug 11, 2016 at 11:36 am

      ECAW I agree with you. When trying to put forward a sensible argument, hyperbole does you no favours.

  15. linnte says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 12:48 pm

    Like a painting by Dali! Freedom of speech has morphed into a melted perversion of silence. Good bye Britain! Say hello to Britanistan.

  16. elizabeth says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 1:10 pm

    “One Muslim witness told police he was concerned the ‘irresponsible’ comments would ‘incite hatred’ and be a ‘potential tool for radicalisation’.” But ,,, isn’t Islam a religion of … peace?

    It’s the Iincitabliity Quotient of Muslims that the police should be concerned about, not free speech.

    • elizabeth says

      Aug 10, 2016 at 1:11 pm

      correction: Incitability Quotient

    • Carolyne says

      Aug 11, 2016 at 11:11 am

      Yes, it is the incitability with which Muslims are saturated which is the problem. They kill each other when a cartoon depicting Mohammed is published in a Danish newspaper. They riot in the streets and kill each other over unfounded rumors. They are the least intelligent of the human species because of incestuous procreation.

  17. Allan says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 1:54 pm

    He deserves it if he’s a law and order nut.

  18. David Shea says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 4:09 pm

    There’s a difference between a race and a culture, a distinction the SJW’s are determined to not grasp. Cultures, among other things, are about values and practices that are widespread among the target group. It should therefore be perfectly acceptable to criticize cultures, since no one is obliged to like another person’s actions or values.

    An intelligent critic will of course readily acknowledge that no culture trait or action is universal among the target group. On the other hand, evil and obnoxious traits and actions weigh more heavily than good ones; and generalizations only refer to the group generally.

  19. Mirren10 says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 4:15 pm

    This is *very* odd.

    I *frequently* post very similar sentiments on *my* fb page. I have never been censored, banned, complained about, or otherwise sanctioned.

    is there something else going on here ?

    • linnte says

      Aug 10, 2016 at 4:46 pm

      It makes me wonder also, Mirren. I have many many Facebook friends from Britain and the things they post, and the comments made by them are sometimes what even I would call inciteful if this man’s remarks are the example. And Sometimes downright offensive to me considering the vulgar language they use, including that ever popular c++t word(which I hate). I have heard them even say “let’s kill them(Muslims) all”.

      So what is going on here? My Facebook friend, Toni Bugle has been banned from Facebook for 30 days because of the work she does helping all women who have been abused by Muslim men. What’s up with THAT? Tommy Robinson gets arrested for bearing a St. George’s flag with “F++K ISIS” on it WHILE IN FRANCE! I guess I would like to know some answers to these things.

      • Carolyne says

        Aug 11, 2016 at 11:17 am

        linnte, the answer is that our governments are aiming toward one-world dictatorship and they think they can achieve it by flooding civilized countries with barbarians and then forbidding the indigenous peoples to object. The dumbing down of the population will allow them to take over. “Common Core” is another technique which is being used to “Dumb down” the population, making it easier for the one-worlders to take over, as is the praise of Islam in school textbooks.

        • linnte says

          Aug 11, 2016 at 11:32 am

          Carolyne, I am on the same page as you on this! Many here, and I still respect them deeply, disagree with the One World Government “conspiracy theory”. To me, bottom line is, there is absolutely no other reason for the ALLOWING of the Islamisation of Western countries except this. It’s the reason politically correct is such a disease! PC encourages people to follow the”norm” and even become violent about it as evidenced by BLM and white anti-Trump protesters. It’s why Democrats and many Republicans oppose Trump. He is anti-globalisation!

    • shrugger says

      Aug 11, 2016 at 2:46 am

      He posted it on his local police Facebook page. Not his own.

      • Ronald Edwin Parsons says

        Aug 11, 2016 at 9:43 am

        The UK is fortunate to have such a citizen who will perform an act that defies the wishes of what is fast becoming a Muslim UK. Mr. Bennett obviously knows what Islam is and why that mind-numbing system of life should be resisted.

        I have been to the UK many times and even studied law there briefly. But now it has become a stultifying place where Gov’t. kowtows before a barbarous culture straight out of the 7th century Arabian desert.

        I keep up with what is happening in the UK. Therefore I wouldn’t visit the place again under any circumstances. Now the USA is stepping onto the same catastrophic path that the UK has chosen to take. Yet I see no group taking up pitchforks and heading towards London or Washington. It is too bad that no commonsensical, charismatic leader has appeared among us to lead the pitchfork brigade with vigor.

  20. native jo says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    I sure hope all those tragically offended Muslims are provided counceling. All those somolian rapist with hurt feelings is so sad. The Pakistanis will be so mad they will justify beating down whites in broad daylight.

  21. Alan Bernstein says

    Aug 10, 2016 at 11:44 pm

    It’s like we’ve all awoken in a dystopian nightmare. Who would have believed that free Britons could see their right to free speech so abused. And so as not to offend anyone! As if anything of import is not offensive to someone. If this story is actually true (and it seems like a very bad joke), I wonder if freedom of speech would have been any more trampled upon had Hitler or Stalin conquered Britain. I think too highly of the British people to imagine that they will take this affront to their rights lying down. Expect those responsible for this travesty to be sent packing at the next electoral opportunity.

  22. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 2:13 am

    Telling the truth – that they are criminals, and their ‘holy’ acts are only crimes – IS usually “grossly offensive” to criminals.

    I guess since backwards leftards presume that offending criminals and hurting their feelings by telling them that often-painful truth, somehow “forces” them to commit even more crimes, necessitates that the only real crime from now on will be to hurt a criminal’s feelings by telling them the truth (see above).

    After all, to “liberals” (libertine criminals) there are no real criminals nor crimes, because after all we’re all really only ever helpless victims – of society / mere products of our environments, and of course proud slaves of allah.

    Stick a fork in Britain’ they’re DONE.

  23. Baucent says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 3:28 am

    “One Muslim witness told police he was concerned the ‘irresponsible’ comments would ‘incite hatred’ and be a ‘potential tool for radicalisation’.

    This is the cunning spin the muslim complainants are using. They are trying to link freedom of speech as a reason muslims become “radicalised”. Yet where is the evidence that muslims become violent jihadists because someone says unkind things about them or their religion? So these complainants and the police push the narrative that any criticism of Islam can result in danger to the community. The end result is Islam becomes untouchable. What other religion enjoys that status?

  24. More Ham Ed says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 5:31 am

    What did Stephen Bennett say? “Don’t come over to this country and treat it like your own. Britain first.”
    That’s nothin’ compared to:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K7YXaNw2CU

  25. More Ham Ed says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 5:43 am

    What did Stephen Bennett say? “Don’t come over to this country and treat it like your own. Britain first.”
    That’s nothin’ compared to:

  26. Angemon says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 6:59 am

    One comment he made concerned Asian women, another was likely to be offensive to Muslims.

    (…)

    The response sparked outrage from Facebook users who feared his remarks would set people against each other.

    “Likely to be offensive”. “Feared his remarks would”. Did he actually broke the law or was he judged and sentenced by things that were not only out of his control but also might not come to pass?

    “Bennett, of Wythenshawe, also wrote: “Don’t come over to this country and treat it like your own. Britain first.””

    What a coincidence – they only reproduced the bit about “Britain First” (sorry, “first”, no caps),

  27. Laura says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 7:10 am

    If only the law went after the people who are destroying our country, with the same vigour.

  28. Pam Short says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 7:12 am

    I live in America and see everyone bowing to Muslims,WHY,it’s not Christians,Hindus or Jews bombing,beheading,shooting and raping,but they are the ones that the world seems to hate. What happened to free speech,I guess only the Muslims now have free speech. We have weak leaders that don’t protect their citizens,Islam is taking over and soon those that don’t follow Allah will be killed and the women wearing burkas,WAKE UP!

    • mary says

      Sep 27, 2016 at 3:38 pm

      because they have been brainwashed.they are taught that if they don’t then it is racist, i say i’d rather be considered racist then to submit to those evil satanist.

  29. TH says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 8:13 am

    He was condemned for ‘running the risk of stirring up racial hatred”, meaning for POSSIBLY COMMITTING A NON CRIME. In other words, one can be condemned by a court for possibly doing something which just might be a possible crime according to a catch-all law. The capacity of muslims to be offended is practically infinite.

    • Carolyne says

      Aug 11, 2016 at 11:27 am

      This must have been a Sharia Court. I understand some of them have been set up in the UK.

  30. neversink says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 8:33 am

    The British citizens need to stand up and throw out these fake “hate speech” laws that are just totalitarian. They need to tell Parliament and their leaders to start protecting all British citizens, or hold massive protests. The British citizens must demand that criminal rapists, no matter what their religion, must be prosecuted. They need to outlaw Sharia law. It is time for Britain and real Europeans to stand up for their rights and to protect their culture and their way of life.

  31. Carolyne says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 11:29 am

    Neversink–You are right. However, the same applies to the US which is now in the process of being taken over by pro-Islam politicians and has a Muslim President.

    The election in November is our last chance to save our country from Islam.

  32. Tuvia Fogel says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 1:48 pm

    Boy am I glad I no longer live in no longer Great Britain…

  33. vcragain says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 5:37 pm

    Well I now consider my chances of being refused entry to UK are serious, and I am still a legal Brit, so when I next go, from here in the US where I live, they might refuse me that end and then refuse me this end when I come back – what do I do then ? I’ll let you all know where I get sent to if that happens – or do I just live at the last airport I manage to get to ? This situation is getting really silly, I am very surprised at UK for falling into this trap, I know Brits can be a bit too eager to just do ‘anything for a quiet life’, but even so they will have to stand up against this cult sooner or later, so it might be better if they start now on the principle of it – good grief guys, why are you all such cowards ?

  34. Karen says

    Aug 11, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    “Mr Bennett’s lawyer, Andrew Higginson, said his actions were ‘difficult to explain’ “.

    Uh….okay. I just hope that wasn’t his courtroom argument.

  35. Infadel_macgee says

    Aug 12, 2016 at 12:49 am

    This world is going to hell in a handcart . Thanks a lot you PC leftist bitches .

  36. Jay Boo says

    Aug 12, 2016 at 12:09 pm

    test

  37. Nathan says

    Aug 12, 2016 at 3:23 pm

    Ishmael is living up to his prophetic nature

    Gen 16:11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
    Gen 16:12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

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