Court cursed in incitement to murder case
Saturday, January 6th, 2007
The Old Bailey (London, UK) yesterday convicted Umran Javed, 27, of soliciting murder and incitement to racial hatred. The charges were brought in response to his vocal leadership of demonstrations outside the Danish Embassy in London during the Jyllands-Posten cartoon protests early last year. Supporters of Javed in the coutroom apparently protested loudly at the conviction, one man shouting “Allahu Akbar, I curse the judge, the court, the jury, all of you.”
Javed had argued in court that his position behind a loudspeaker was unplanned, that his chants were merely “soundbites”, and the idea that he was threatening anyone was a misinterpretation of his words. But, according to the Times:
Javed had links with the recently banned group al-Muhajiroun, which was led by the extremist cleric Omar Bakri Mohammad.
The latest round of Danish cartoons depicting Muslim prophet Mohammed has caused another torrent of dissent from Muslims, apparently (BBC: “
