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Video from the UK: Scottish police arrest man for painting “Islam is questionable” on his house

Jul 23, 2019 3:00 pm By Joshua Winston

Islam is a legal, political, and religious system. In Scotland, the majority of people’s windows fly banners that are pro-SNP (Scottish National Party). It’s not an offense to fly SNP or Conservative banners, or to state whether a person has voted for independence or not. However, it is a breach of the peace to criticize the political element of Islam in Scotland. A Scottish man has been arrested, jailed, but ultimately found not guilty by a Scottish judge.

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  1. Stuart A Richards says

    Jul 23, 2019 at 3:09 pm

    Sad, this tells you that these societies know the danger that Islam actually presents. Even to the point of sacrificing their “freedom of speech”. Ironically the greatest danger to Muslims is other Muslims.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jul 23, 2019 at 4:15 pm

      Greatest danger to Muslims is the extinction of their false religion!

      It would mean they would cease being Muslims.

      Therefore, it would behoove matters for the entire world is Muslims
      would just convert to more truthful and helpful and kinder belief.

      — or just reform bleeding Islam, excise the harmful verses of the Queer’an!

    • Bob Jones says

      Jul 24, 2019 at 10:01 am

      WOW! Liberal Fascism has bitten Europe so hard! No freedom of speech! The NAZI´s are laughing in their graves! We might as well amend the constitution to say: Sharia Law is the law of the land!

  2. Goofy says

    Jul 23, 2019 at 3:16 pm

    We all need to know Islam much better whether we are Muslims or not because we will have to live with Islam for generations.

    Unfortunately the prisons have become centres of Muslim radicalisation, and that is not what the tax payers expect for their money. Therefore, the prisons should introduce mandatory education on Islam (not indoctrination or proselyting) for all inmates whether Muslim or not.

    I suggest 9 hours per day consisting initially of

    3 hours with Jay Smith on the history of Islam and it’s scripture,

    3 hours with David Wood and his discussion partners on the Koran and the hadith,

    3 hours with Christian Prince and his Muslim callers for discussions of all the best which the Muslims can say about their religion.

    If the prison curriculum becomes really popular we should make sure that we do not create a perverse incentive to commit crime and go to prison but offer similar education outside of the prison system.

    • Avenger says

      Jul 23, 2019 at 3:46 pm

      Goofy,
      You and your future generations may surrender to living with Muslims but I fully believe in expelling all Muslims from non muslim countries and not allowing their immigration back. World wide isolation of this death cult would protect the survival of higher civilization.

      BTW
      Your solution to prisoner radicalization by making indoctrination of islam mandatory, is incredibly naive and idiotic.

      • Angemon says

        Jul 23, 2019 at 5:26 pm

        How, exactly, are Jay Smith and David Wood “islamic indoctrinators”?

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 23, 2019 at 8:49 pm

        Good question from Angemon.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jul 23, 2019 at 4:20 pm

      Goofy seems to think that DE-PROGRAMMING works…

    • Trevor Bailey says

      Jul 24, 2019 at 3:04 pm

      Goofy I would go further. In muslim majority prisons subject them to gospel music and Christian hymns all day and night over loud speakers they will soon give up islam

      • Ginger Snap says

        Jul 24, 2019 at 5:40 pm

        👍

  3. No Muzzies Here says

    Jul 23, 2019 at 3:42 pm

    The government of Scotland has made it official: it is actively promoting Islam, and persecuting anybody who objects. How long before the officially established religion is acknowledged as Islam?

    • WVinMN says

      Jul 23, 2019 at 3:46 pm

      The government of Scotland’s chock full of hardcore communists. So this comes as no surprise.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jul 23, 2019 at 4:19 pm

      The government of Scotland is officially drunk on its own authority
      while ignorant of the matters of true democracy, republicanism
      free speech… Scot government officials are distracted by their conceit….

      Look at how they conduct themselves in chambers:

  4. Rueben_Singh says

    Jul 23, 2019 at 3:55 pm

    @ 1.00

    “Harm and distress to members of the community”
    Surely if islam does the same to non moslems, then moslems should be treated the same way????

    • IanB says

      Jul 24, 2019 at 3:40 pm

      Muslims blowing up children after a Manchester concert. attacking people with knives in London, mowing down people on Westminster Bridge, bombing a bus and tube in London, driving a buring car into Glasgow Airport, gang raping children in Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford and many other cities are REAL examples of causing “harm and distress to members of the community”. F**k the Scottish police – and Mohammed and Allah while you’re at it.

  5. CRUSADER says

    Jul 23, 2019 at 4:06 pm

    “Braveheart” needs to be resurrected!

    Scots are losing “FREEEE-DOM!”

    Scotland needs a bit of ScExit!

    ========================
    “Islamophobia IS questionable!”
    ========================

    Meanwhile, across The Pond….

    NYC cops doused with water and mocked, police union blames City Hall…

    https://www.policeone.com/Officer-Safety/articles/484485006-Video-NYC-cops-doused-with-water-and-mocked-police-union-blames-City-Hall/

    “Disorder controls the streets, and our elected leaders refuse to allow us to take them back… As police officers, we need to draw a line. In situations like this, we need to take action to protect ourselves and the public. The politicians may not care about the dangerous levels of chaos in our neighborhoods, but police officers and decent New Yorkers should not be forced to suffer.”

  6. Lydia Church says

    Jul 23, 2019 at 4:16 pm

    They don’t want anyone to question islam.
    Because after questioning islam…. you discover that islam is….. EVIL!!!

    Yup, the walls are closing in.

    • Terry Gain says

      Jul 24, 2019 at 7:19 am

      The walls are closing in on the critics of Islam, which is ascendant.

  7. Battle says

    Jul 23, 2019 at 4:20 pm

    Except for the up to nineteen percent who may be pacifist, it is easy to upset the peace of Islam Muslims because Islam Muslims do not have peace.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jul 23, 2019 at 5:06 pm

      Muzzies know no peace.

      Their ideology is rank with anxiety and falsehood.

      IF only they would come to reason, and covert to the True Faith
      offered by the Prince of Peace….

      + + +

  8. CRUSADER says

    Jul 23, 2019 at 5:10 pm

    There was a time, only a generation ago when men of Scotland
    were known for their manhood!

    Cheers to Sean Connery!

    One of the last true men who can call themselves a SCOT !

  9. GreekEmpress says

    Jul 23, 2019 at 5:29 pm

    If there is a stronger word for this obstruction of free speech other than INSANE, I can’t think of it right now.

  10. CRUSADER says

    Jul 23, 2019 at 6:22 pm

    Boris Johnson is PM of UK and will form a new cabinet.

    October 31st is the new BrExit deadline date.

    May the FIGHT begin!

  11. jewdog says

    Jul 23, 2019 at 6:24 pm

    It’s a breach of thought control, not the peace.

  12. Jayell says

    Jul 23, 2019 at 6:39 pm

    Of course ‘islamophobia’ is questionable! It exists only in the minds of those intellectually unequipped to reach an informed reasoned understanding of this ‘religion’, whether in a positive or negative way. And the point in question in this nasty little farce was in any case not the religion ‘islam’ itself but this completely nonsensically-contrived phenomenon. The ‘religion’ itself was not being criticised, in fact there was no outright criticism of anything! So this expression was causing “harm and distress to members of the community”, was it? Which members, and how? Let’s compare the inscription of a rational opinion on one’s own house wall to the goings on in, say, Rotherham and Telford (to name just two infamous locations) where REAL CRIMINAL HARM AND DISTRESS was caused to THOUSANDS of young girls (by the same people who were no doubt claiming ‘harm and distress’ in this outrageous case) as the forces of Law and Order not only deliberately and negligently looked the other way but also failed in their duty to respond to requests for help from the victims and parents of the victims – and, apparently, even threatened those who were demanding that they do their duty to stop the repulsive crimes! The evidence of the video here, plus the well-documented evidence of the goings-on in Rotherham, Telford, etc. etc. etc., is more than adequate proof of the total and utter corruption of the UK police in the cause of the promotion of islam within the UK. They are NOT upholding the law of the land (where this unfavourable to islam), they are NOT protecting the UK citizen against criminals (where the criminals can be seen to be mainly muslims) but instead that are acting as agents for the illegal and undemocratic advancement of an ideology that is totally alien to the UK and which has no mandate from the indigenous majority of the UK population. As I have said before, this accords EXACTLY with the ‘conquest scenario’ that would have happened in the UK if Hitler had invaded in 1941.

  13. tim gallagher says

    Jul 23, 2019 at 7:16 pm

    I want to praise the bravery of this man. I don’t know how many Muslims are infesting Scotland with their inevitable intolerance and violence. If there are very few, then, maybe, it wouldn’t require so much bravery, but there would still be plenty of danger of retaliation. I know I crave peace at the house where I live, so I wouldn’t have the courage to do something like this man has done. Some Muslim or some leftie fascist would be likely to attack your house at 2am or 3am when you are trying to get some peaceful sleep, or attack you as the occupier of the house. I need to get peaceful sleep and wouldn’t risk having my house become a target. I certainly always do admire people who have the courage to do something like this so publicly. Of course, what he is saying is completely inoffensive,( I mean, “Islam is questionable” is surely mild and inoffensive) but, that’s beside the point, because many Muslims and leftie fascists react in totally off the planet, very violent, loony ways.

    • Georg says

      Jul 23, 2019 at 9:31 pm

      Definitely courageous, but sad that his act is considered such and says a lot about the disgraceful propaganda victory Islam has had via leftism, and through its own violence, in our previously much freer society. Funny how unwittingly the police, and the Muslims they are representing, prove the house owner’s point. Where Islam goes you see freedom shrink and acrimony rise. Sad and regrettable, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Islam has been fashionable since 9/11 (how sick), but the day might come when it faces more rigorous public scrutiny as one of many competing ideologies.

    • underbed cat says

      Jul 23, 2019 at 10:26 pm

      I agree Tim Gallagher there is danger of retaliation. most people want peace, the enemy know us well, they can bring fears of terror or arrest he was brave with his statement.

      • tim gallagher says

        Jul 24, 2019 at 1:45 am

        George and underbed cat, I agree with your comments. Yes, it’s a damned shame that there is always this threat of vicious retaliation from Muslims ( I mean, look at those Muslims at demos with their signs “Behead those that insult the prophet” etc – such intolerant creeps) and from the left wing fascist types. I’m in Australia, but I saw a TV report about how the Antifa scumbags beat up Andy Ngo, a conservative journalist, who was videoing them in Oregon and an interview with Andy Ngo, who had been injured quite badly. And, Georg, you’re right to point out that we used to have a freer society without the threat of violence. I do admire greatly the tremendous courage of people like the one in this report, it’s almost “crazy” courage, to leave yourself wide open to retaliation, but I always admire it whenever I hear about it. I can’t help but admire it. It’s dangerous though. Tommy Robinson had great courage to speak up over and over against islam so publicly, Robert Spencer and others also show continual courage. I just know I need to have peace at home and so I could never make myself a target at home in this way.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Jul 24, 2019 at 5:49 am

      “Islamophobia is questionable” is what he says he wrote.
      That is certainly no breach of the peace, and the judge was right to acquit him.
      He has, however, been through the stress of being arrested and held in custody. Many others who agree with him would probably prefer not to have to undergo that experience.

      We can hope his inscription is still in place.

      • tim gallagher says

        Jul 24, 2019 at 5:41 pm

        I agree , Michael, it would have been very stressful to go through what he has been put through. I hope he isn’t targeted by anyone. This report made me recall something that happened probably 10 years or so ago in Newtown, which is an inner-city suburb of Sydney. I hadn’t thought about it for ages. A man, I’m pretty sure he was an artist (so, usually leftie PC types), painted a mural critical of islam on the wall of his house. I think it had women covered up in burqas. I remember hearing him interviewed on radio and a TV news report. I remember thinking how courageous he was. There aren’t many Muslims ( although there are suburbs not far away that have many Muslims) in the Newtown area but it is a trendy, Greens and leftie inhabited area. So there was plenty of outrage. The council there would have been very left wing. Anyway, no harm came to this man, although I’m pretty sure the mural was painted over. Probably the council would have told him to do that. Hopefully, no harm comes to this Scottish man. People like this man in Scotland and the man in Newtown all those years ago are brave, that’s for sure.

        • Michael Copeland says

          Jul 27, 2019 at 1:04 pm

          The artist you mention will be the redoubtable Sergio Redegalli, who repainted his anti-niqab mural when it was defaced. He is to be admired for his stand, his bravery, and tenacity.

  14. underbed cat says

    Jul 23, 2019 at 8:03 pm

    Frank Zappa once wrote, ‘You are totally controlled, your mind has been stuffed into a mold, you will do as you are told, till the rights of you are sold”…. I used this think it was a crazy song now I get it. Bring out the bagpipes. I hope you don’t mind Frank.

    • underbed cat says

      Jul 23, 2019 at 10:12 pm

      Sharia law supersedes free speech in U.K. as this Scottish citizen was arrested on breach of the peace….since the offended sharia law followers would be offended by an intelligent idea..however that is quite stunning that the U.K. is aware of the “uncontrollable, unjustified violence” and complaints that “could” erupt, not from the home owner painting on his comment painted on house house that sharia law if questionable, but from the muslim reader, arresting a citizen who is non violent to silence the potential violence of the complainer is totally insane and a most miserable result perpetrated by the submission as a result of their ignorance about Islam in the first place. Winston Churchill was accurate. U.K. do you remember him? Oh that is right, you arrest people who quote him and love Obama who couldn’t tell you the truth. He had a obligatory duty to deny as he stated “the future does not belong to those who slander. the ..” ie truth is hate speech and delusional.

  15. gravenimage says

    Jul 23, 2019 at 8:52 pm

    Video from the UK: Scottish police arrest man for painting “Islam is questionable” on his house
    …………………………

    More craven crushing of freedom of speech.

    • Giacomo Latta says

      Jul 24, 2019 at 12:05 pm

      Charge him with understatement.

  16. TimC says

    Jul 23, 2019 at 9:31 pm

    I find it interesting that – unless I missed it – there are several comments saying (paraphrasing) “OH SCOTLAND SUCKS TOO” but check the last sentence of the report – Scotland is NOT England! YAY!

    “A Scottish man has been arrested, jailed, but ultimately found not guilty by a Scottish judge.”

    • CRUSADER says

      Jul 23, 2019 at 11:23 pm

      There was a time this wouldn’t have happened at all in Scotland.

      It’s not as though it is the 1300s and England is encroaching
      in the borderlands.

      It is the incompatible Shariah
      and the shameful political correctness
      which are infecting officials and mindsets.

      That’s the shame!

      “Glass is half full” or
      “All’s well that ends well”
      isn’t a great philosophy for thriving in life….
      but might be fair enough when surviving it.

    • CRUSADER says

      Jul 23, 2019 at 11:28 pm

      TimC, look at that sentence again and ask yourself
      if the first half of the sentence is alright, particularly
      if you put yourself in as the subject:

      “A Scottish man has been arrested, jailed,
      but ultimately found not guilty by a Scottish judge.”

  17. Bazz12 says

    Jul 24, 2019 at 3:33 am

    What the b%^&*y hell has happened to Britain ?
    Have they recruited ex Stasi and KGB unemployed.
    Thought police, who would have thought it ?
    Oh yes George Orwell he thought of it !

  18. Andrew E Walker says

    Jul 24, 2019 at 7:03 am

    This is yet another false arrest for breach of the peace. It has nothing to do with causing alarm and distress. There must be an imminent threat of harm. The man posed no threat of doing harm inside his own house.

  19. Robert Baylis says

    Jul 24, 2019 at 7:44 am

    Why does the policeman keep saying “civil war” instead of “civil law”?

  20. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Jul 24, 2019 at 9:09 am

    “Who are the brain police?” Frank Zappa, The Mothers of Invention.

  21. R Russell says

    Jul 24, 2019 at 7:47 pm

    The Scottish Government in power is the SNP. They wanted to set up a Nazi puppet government in Scotland during WW2 which also explains why they want to remain in the EU.
    ALL of the Scottish political parties have adopted the Definition of Islamophobia.
    https://static1.squarespace.com/static/599c3d2febbd1a90cffdd8a9/t/5bfd1ea3352f531a6170ceee/1543315109493/Islamophobia+Defined.pdf
    See P 56.
    The JUSTICE minister is Humza Yousaf. Although born in Scotland he considers himself Pakistani first. He took his oath of office in Urdu with his hand on the Koran.
    Formerly he wanted Arabs (Palestinians) to be given asylum in Scotland.
    The Arab refugees who were settled in the Scottish Isle of Bute were to be given an Arabic teacher and indigenous Scottish children were invited to learn Arabic too.
    I could say a lot more, but will stop for now

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