Those who are not guilty of any wrongdoing have nothing to hide.
“Director of campaign group that praised Jihadi John is found GUILTY of terror charge after refusing to hand over his phone and laptop during an airport stop and search,” by Richard Spillett, Mailonline, September 25, 2017:
The director of controversial advocacy group Cage has been convicted of an offence under the Terrorism Act after refusing to hand over the pin code to his mobile phone at Heathrow Airport.
Muhammad Rabbani, 36, was stopped under Schedule 7 on November 20 last year after returning home from a wedding in Doha.
He refused to give his pin number or the password to his laptop, saying he had been stopped many times under the schedule before and had never been required to give these details.
Rabbani said he had highly confidential information on his device and that handing it to police would be a breach of his ‘personal and professional’ privacy.
But on Monday he was convicted at Westminster Magistrates’ Court of one count of wilfully obstructing a stop-and-search under Section 7 of the Terrorism Act.
Senior District Judge Emma Arbuthnot sentenced him to one year conditional discharge.
She said: ‘The defendant was stopped by first one and then the second officer. Certainly the first officer had only the vaguest idea of what Cage did.
‘As part of the stop the defendant was asked for the pin number and password for his iPhone and Apple computer.
‘He said it was like handing over his home keys which he would rather not do.
‘His main qualm he said was that there was a lot of information that had already been collected.
‘What he did not say to them was that some of the information in his devices was excluded material.
‘I accept he was trying to protect confidential material on his devices. The defendant took a calculated risk not to give the pin codes.
‘You took a risk, it happened before, you thought you might get away with it again but you didn’t.’
Before the trial started, Rabbani said: ‘I’m not guilty of a crime and I’m doing what any other professional would’ve done in my place – the police included.
‘We are quite confident that the law is on our side and the court will recognise that I’m actually innocent of any wrongdoing and was protecting an important principle: client confidentiality and legal privilege.
‘We need to protect national security, but we need an intelligent and measured response.’
He added: ‘Only five people were charged last year out of 19,000 stop-and-searches at the border and one of those was me.
‘It is clear that the overwhelming majority of people are totally innocent and are being subjected to a deeply intrusive process for no reason.’
Rabbani, of Bethnal Green, east London, spoke to identify himself in the dock in front of a public gallery packed with reporters and supporters at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
Cage campaigns against anti-terror policing against Muslims which it says is oppressive.
The group caused controversy in 2015 when Kuwaiti-born London extremist Mohammed Emwazi man was named as ISIS executioner ‘Jihadi John’.
Hours after he was unmasked, the group’s then-director Asim Qureshi described Emwazi as a ‘beautiful young man’.
The court heard that Rabbani refused to tell officers what he did for a living or give out his Pin saying ‘it won’t help you in any way’ and that it breached his privacy.
Pc Tariq Chaudhry, the officer who conducted the search, said: ‘I asked him questions about his occupation and he said he was a director of a company but wouldn’t go any further – he kept saying ‘You don’t need to and it won’t help you in any way’.’
Pc Chaudhry said that Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act gives officers their right to stop and search people ‘with or without suspicion’.
Rabbani was repeatedly warned that he would be arrested if he failed to give his Pin codes, but said he had never been asked to give this information during previous stop-and-searches….
Linde Barrera says
“Sentenced to 1 year conditional discharge.” I wish that would include him being required to work in a butcher shop twice a week for 2 hours, cutting up pork chops to give to poor people at a discounted price. But I have the feeling the UK government loves its Muslim terrorists no matter how bad the terrorists behave, and this conditional discharge is just like a “time out” for a first grader. ????
gravenimage says
If he worked in food preparation, he would be poisoning the Infidels.
Monty says
The UK government is so far in debt to Muslim countries that it dare not offend them. This is barely a finger wag and “don’t do it again!” This terror threat won’t last much longer. Unless there is a major change in attitude, the UK will become a Muslim nation and there will be no need for Jihad.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Then starts the never ending fight between themselves….
Alex Smith says
It’s already started. The PC in this case is of Bengali Muslim descent and the perp is Pakistani descent.
gravenimage says
Actually, it is Infidel money which goes to Muslim countries as aid.
Bob says
And, GravenImage, it should be stopped. Talk about financing our enemies!
Jack Holan says
If this jerk thinks he deserves Special treatment of Privacy because he gives the appearance of a Professional with a strong degree of trust with clients; he is sadly mistaken. Firstly If the Ovrganization he is now the current Director could honor Jihad John and this one tries to make a case for ending search and seizure results he’s mistaken. MI5 and MI6 decide what methods are effective or not and he isn’t privy to information collected during search and seizures and just because a suspect isn’t arrested at that moment means nothing, obviously.
During the past two years, Mr Mohammad Rabbani, what is the religion of the perpetrators who have committed murder (Jihad) in the name of Mohamed as Allahs messenger and codified in the Quran Hadith and Sunnah? They have based their actions on the ideology of Islam. Do you care to rebuke them and state for the record that it is not Islam and Al Azhar would take exception to their interpretations and practices? The No go zones, indoctrination s in public schools, sharia PC civil service, elected officials, and even in some cases Security Services. You’ve come a long way baby. However, in the I’ll bet 1Quid that does not commit National Suicide, Cultural Suicide, Religious Conversion and Submission. The pendallum will swing back.
PRCS says
What could have been so “highly confidential”?
Let me take a “stab” at it.
Beheading and dismemberment videos?
Videos of homosexuals “flying” from rooftops?
Videos and pictures of his child brides?
Selfies from that Islamic State training camp?
Videos of the “filthy unbelievers” he executed?
I don’t to sound cynical…..
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
He probably had stuff on his devices that would have netted him way more time than “one year conditional discharge.” He calculated correctly. The authorities should have confiscated his devices and unlocked them.
Kay says
+1
john spielman says
the Brits, if they were serious, would send the phone to Israel to have them unlock it
gravenimage says
UK: Director of group that agitates against counterterror measures found guilty on terror charge
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Is *anyone* surprised by this?
Fred H says
What was on the laptop? Did any of those geniuses in the Border Force think of sending the laptop for forensic analysis?
Anne Smith says
During her inept five year reign as Home Secretary Teresa May allowed the Border Force to become a shadow of its former self. Many left and were not replaced. She certainly did not appear to rate border control as high among her priorities – the most important of which is quite clearly her ability to hang on to a powerful job without displaying any aptitude whatsoever for it.
mortimer says
Muhammad Rabbani is a stealth jihadist and jihad supporter. If he is directly involved in jihad activities, he undoubtedly knows people who are involved in jihad and by gathering information from him, Scotland Yard can locate jihadists with a likelihood of committing jihad soon.
Infidel says
What gets me is that these fellows live in the same land that provides them with so much opportunity and freedom and yet the bite the same hands that feed them. A case in example are the Rohyingya refugees from Burma, They slaughter Hindus and then beg the same Hindus for refuge in India.. These people have NO CODE OF HONOR AND SELF-RESPECT.. And the left lib want us to show tolerance towards these fellows!!!
Andy says
‘We are not a part of England’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0oTSetZ0_0
Jayell says
They don’t feel ‘part of England’? Well, not surprising, because they’re NOT ‘part of England’. So why are they here? The usual answer is that they came ‘for a better life’, which means having free use of the club’s facilities and that’s about it, their justification usually being something to do with the UK’s past imperialist sins (whatever they were), or slavery, or anything. And the same goes for most of the ethnic minorities in the UK except the limited number who have made it abundantly clear that they came to ‘join the club’ because they like its members and what it stands for, pull their weight, don’t make any trouble out of respect for the rest of us, and generally make it a better place. You can spot them easily because they don’t stand out like a pleasantly sore thumb. The ‘multicultural society’ (that pathetic excuse for an oxymoronic non-concept) was fantasized into existence because so many of our new guests made it very clear that they had no intention to ‘play the game’, and an excuse had to be found to bottle out of getting them to conform. And so we live with all the consequences. To say that ‘London’s burning’ as a result would sound charmingly poetic if it wasn’t for the reality of the destructive riots caused by……..
Laura says
But, offer them free repatriation back to their ancestral homelands and the cries of protest would be deafening.
ctlawson says
ONE way to get an INSIDERS JOB ,and that is to use MUSLIM TAQQYIYA ,
FYI says
Cage.Is that…?
Contrived
Agenda for the ..
Global
Expansion of….islam?
Well,it should be.
Laura says
‘It is clear that the overwhelming majority of people are totally innocent and are being subjected to a deeply intrusive process for no reason.’
Yes, they are, and it’s thanks to cockroaches like him that old ladies and children are subjected to invasive ‘pat downs’ while hijabi muslims are waved through security.
Sarah says
EXACTLY!!
I will never forget watching a female security guard about 10 years ago now, pat my father down at the airport. He was randomly selected for one of those pat downs – happens all day every day now.
Dad had stayed with me while recovering from a hip replacement. He was extremely fragile and in a lot of pain still – and when we got to the airport and he got selected for the pat down, we both politely explained to the woman just how fragile he was physically and I sincerely begged her to be super gentle on his hip and leg. That’s all I asked – not even for an exemption – just be gentle with him.
She could have cared less – and proceeded to pat him down quite roughly. I watched my Dad, who was a damn tough guy, stand there, biting his lip with tears running down his face while that witch did her thing, none too gently.
I’ve never forgotten having to witness that – and I never will. She was a nasty piece of work – she could’ve gone ultra gently over his hip and upper thigh region on that side, if she’d had any compassion – but I reserve my greatest bitterness for that painful memory for the fact that we are getting subjected to these ridiculous security measures and invasions of our privacy as human beings- all because of Muslims and their feral religion.
I have no empathy or pity for this idiot, Mohammed – or any other Muslim who whinges about being pulled over in a security search. Its their fault to begin with. Perhaps he should have some self awareness and understand that – its HIS religion and HIS people that have caused this.
Because to be frank – I strongly resent the whole business to begin with. Muslim aside – I feel very annoyed by the idea of some idiot in a uniform, demanding pin numbers and passwords to private property from a passenger who has otherwise, done nothing wrong. Its sick and its disgusting.
But apparently that’s the price we ALL have to pay, so that Muslims can swan about the world, living where they want, doing what they want, traveling whenever they want. Because they can’t be trusted to do the right thing – and not blow us all the hell up, whenever one gets on a plane or into some other high risk area.
David Pimentel says
I sympathize with your disdain of these measures and totalitarian morons, both Muslim and TSA. My solution is to refuse to pay to fly. I realize that that solution does not work for all.
God bless.
Laura says
A ONE YEAR conditional discharge, my word, that should bring him back to reality.
Bob says
Yes, Laura, his conscience is really troubling him now!
David Pimentel says
I don’t know anything about this Muhammad Rabbani, and he may be the most vile creature on the planet who is deserving of all the pain people inflict upon him. Regardless of that, doesn’t anyone take issue with the Orwellian nature of the fact that “Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act gives officers their right to stop and search people ‘with or without suspicion?” It is flabbergasting how fearful the majority of western people have become — to the point of relinquishing all personal liberty and privacy. In fact, I am more concerned with *that* reality than the one posed by these Islamic nutjobs. Western societies are devouring themselves from within.