Mockery has been a big part of British humour for a long time. People have mocked Kings and street sweepers and yes, we’ve even mocked the grim reaper too. Everything that one can think of has been up for mockery at some time or another, religion, politics, social mores and conditions, class, the members of the Home Nations, foreigners. If you can name it, a Briton has probably mocked it.

However, there is one thing that Britons are now forbidden to mock and that is the religion of permanent offence otherwise known as Islam. This is to my mind outrageous. All religions and ideologies should be the subject of mockery, the ability to mock the beliefs of others is hallmark of a free society. It is a sign of the pro-Islam double standard that is operating in the clown world that is modern Britain today that people are being criminalised for little more than jokes.

The police and the judiciary seem to fall over themselves to see who can abase themselves the most to the followers of the ‘religion of permanent offence’. Untold amounts of police and court resources are wasted chasing those who make jokes about Islam. Even more public money seems to be flushed down the toilet on various Islamic and racial grievance mongers who actively search out opinions about Islam, including jokes, that they can be ‘offended’ by.

Although the police and judiciary now have a thoroughly deserved reputation for ‘Islamopandering’, the British mainstream press is sadly not that far behind when it comes to distorting stories about those who mock Islam. One very good example of the Press talking bullshit about those who fall foul of the law when it comes to mocking Islam, comes from the Daily Mail of the 8^th April 2019. The Mail was covering the story of Neil Froggatt who produced an hilarious set of fake Pokemon cards featuring high profile Muslims or those perceived to be Muslim.

They were not ‘racial’ in any way shape or form, despite both the charge and the Mail saying they were, as they mocked all sorts of Muslims from all sorts of racial backgrounds. These cards were mocking the ideology of Islam and the last time I looked at the statute book we are free to mock religion or religions if we choose. Also Islam, despite the attempts of various Islamic grievance mongers to make it so, is definitely not a ‘race’. If the Labour Party’s increasingly hated ‘hate speech’ laws had been in existence in the 1970’s and 80’s we would never have had comedians like Dave Allen or Dick Emery who both mocked religion and religious persons.

As someone who is quite familiar with the story of the Pakemon cards and one of those who republished them, on free speech grounds, when they were removed from social media, I have to admit that the Mail story has a lot of spin and a few factual inaccuracies. Below is part of the Daily Mail article about Mr Froggatt’s case, with my comments on both the way that the story is written and the case itself. As is usual policy for this blog the original text is in italics whereas my comments are in plain text.

The Daily Mail said:

A racist hospital contractor who plastered London with Pokemon-styled stickers demanding the rounding up of Muslims, including Sadiq Khan and Barack Obama, has avoided jail.

In November 2016, Neil Froggatt, 48, walked the streets of the capital and slapped his stickers – which read ‘gotta catch and deport them all’ – on random objects before taking to Twitter boast about his crime.

‘Racist?’ ‘Racist?’ I see no damned racism. I’ve marched in the past against the genuine racists of the National Front, I know what hardcore racism looks like and it is not these ‘Pakemon cards. Mr Froggatt mocked everyone, those who are brown, black and white and who adhere to the ideology of Islam, how on earth can that be called ‘racist’? This is the Daily Mail using the now increasingly empty ‘snarl’ word of ‘racist’ to smear Mr Froggatt and virtue signal to their more left wing readers.

As regards the article claiming that Mr Froggatt ‘boasted’ about the ‘crime’ on Twitter I have to say that these cards and stickers were plainly and obviously jokes and as with all jokes, they need to be told to an audience. A joke told by a man alone in a forest is a very ineffective joke indeed.

The Mail added:

High profile Muslims such as the ex-President, who he dubbed ‘USA’s Muslim in Chief’ and ‘Obamabinlyin, and the London Mayor, were targeted and given ‘terror points’.

It’s notable that the Mail does not show the entirety of the cards which includes humorous text as to why this particular individual deserves the ‘terror points’. By not including the text the Mail misses (possibly deliberately) the context of them. For example the ‘Beheadatron’ card, specifically targets Jihadi John the ISIS murderer and refers to him and those like him as being ‘as dumb as a mushroom’. As for Sadiq ‘Saracen’ Khan, his own ineptitude as London Mayor, which has seen the metropolis turned into ‘Stabistan’ during his reign, has done more damage to his reputation than these cards and stickers could ever accomplish. Mr Froggatt also referenced the problem of Islamic taxi drivers who have a well deserved reputation for being a bit ‘rapey’ as anyone would be able to ascertain from looking at various local and national news media. I fail to see how it can be ‘racist’ to mock or use dark humour about the known problem of Islamic sex crime?

The Mail continued:

Today, after previously pleading guilty to racially and religiously-aggravated criminal damage, the father-of-three from Worcester Park, Kingston-upon-Thames, walked free from court with a suspended prison sentence.

The businessman says he was driven to his actions by what he claims are ‘Sharia Patrol’ gangs which roam around the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel.  

Froggatt pleaded guilty to racially and religiously-aggravated criminal damage between November 16 and November 29, 2016.

He also pleaded guilty to possessing articles, namely the stickers, with intent to destroy property between November 16 and December 2, 2016. 

Blackfriars Crown Court Recorder, Joel Bennathan QC, sentenced the first-time offender, who is currently claiming universal credit, to ten weeks imprisonment, suspended for two years, plus 75 hours community service work.

He told the court: ‘This is one of those cases where the racial aggravation totally changes the nature of the offence.

Although there was an element of criminal damage here as the items were stickers, that is about the only thing that should have been prosecuted here, if it was prosecuted at all bearing in mind that lefty groups use stickers as campaign tools all the time and are rarely if ever brought to book. There was obviously no ‘racial’ element to these stickers as anyone who saw the originals would have been able to see. This is yet another of these ‘speech crime’ offences for which there were over three thousand arrests in 2016 alone. As Brendan O’Neil has said on the ‘Reason’ website, Briton’s are ‘sleepwalking into a police state’ because of ‘hate speech’ laws.

This is a non crime based on a law that far too easily for the hypersensitive or those with a political motivation agenda to unjustly exploit. This case, along with the thousands of other similar cases, show just why Britain needs to dump ‘hate speech’ laws and instead promote free speech along the lines of the US First Amendment to the Constitution.

There are aspects of this case that the Mail seem to have left out and I can’t help but wonder why. The Mail makes it appear that hundreds of shocked Londoners were reporting the stickers and having a fit of the vapours over them. This appears to me to be being a little economical with the actualité. As someone who is familiar with the ‘Pakemon’ case and the latest free speech martyr Mr Froggatt, I have to say that this may not be the entire truth. There was allegedly an involvement in these complaints by the lavishly publicly funded Islamic grievance mongers Tell Mama, who whined loudly about these stickers.

There is and has been much suspicion out there on social media and elsewhere, that Tell Mama’s strong links to the Crown Prosecution Service had an influence on getting this case prosecuted. If this is the case then what we may have here is a completely unrepresentative group, and one with a vested interest and an agenda of censoring negative speech regarding Islam, having an undue influence over Britain’s criminal justice system. If the rumours are true then it means that these wealthy gobshites are pulling the strings of what should be an independent prosecution entity. This situation is not something that Britons, no matter what their race or faith, should tolerate or meekly accept. The justice system needs to be honest and not influenced by grievance mongers like Tell Mama.

It is my belief that no real harm came from these stickers apart from a few people and groups being ‘offended’ by them and in a genuinely free society, a person or group taking ‘offence’ at something should not result in criminalisation of the speaker. I’m offended by things all the time. I’m offended by examples of crap parenting, anti-vax lunatics, drivers who don’t wave thank you when I let them past me and yes, I am offended by the death cult that is Islam. Unfortunately for me I’m not a Muslim and therefore the State is not going to pander to me like it does to the permanently offended followers of Islam. Mr Froggatt should never have been brought to court. Like Count Dankula and others, he’s been dragged through the courts for other two years merely because of a joke that someone didn’t like. I never thought that Britain, a land whose freedom my ancestors fought to preserve, would end up being dominated by the ‘Jokestapo’. That it does makes me both sad and angry and determined to vote for whatever sensible party promises to give me and others back the right to speak freely, a right that has been stolen from us by those who see ‘being offended’ as a crime rather than a normal part of life.