The Metropolitan Police and the Crown Prosecution Service have at last pulled their fingers out and charged those who were alleged to have been involved in the ‘Palestine’ convoy that went around North London issuing rape threats to Jewish women. I’m pleased to see this as this incident happened in May of this year and the alleged offenders were arrested shortly afterwards. It had looked like the Met were dragging their feet over charging these guys but it seems that public pressure and possibly pressure from behind the scenes, has seen the Met act.
Here’s the video that got distributed after the ‘Palestine’ convoy went around North London.
I’m all for people being able to demonstrate for various causes, including those, such as ‘free Palestine’ that I disagree with and for Britons to have a right to freedom of speech. However threatening to rape or kill is not what many reasonable people would refer to as freedom of speech, it crosses a number of red lines in my view. Such actions are a direct threat to violence and I feel that I must condemn them no matter who does them.
But back to the charges. Because the alleged offenders have been charged, the Met Police have been obliged to give the names of those who have been charged. The alleged offenders are, as many of us expected them to be, Muslims. What a lot of us didn’t expect is that they all seem to be from the same town, Blackburn in Lancashire.
In a statement made by the Met about the charges the Met said:
Four men have been charged in connection with a video which appeared to show anti-Semitic abuse being shouted from a car in north London.
- Mohammed Iftikhar Hanif, 27 (23.04.94) of Pringle Street, Blackburn;
- Jawaad Hussain, 24 (13.08.97) of Revidge Road, Blackburn;
- Asif Ali, 25 (24.11.95) of Pringle Street, Blackburn;
- Adil Mota, 26 (12.01.95) of Leamington Road, Blackburn.
The men were charged via postal requisition on Thursday, 16 September with using threatening, abusive or insulting words, or behaviour, with intent, likely to stir up racial hatred.
Yes of course they are all Muslim. This is because much of the Jew hatred that is going on these days is either Islam derived or coming from the Islam-aligned far Left. That doesn’t mean that the lunatic far right Jew haters have gone away but these appear to be much less numerous and much less willing to engage in street harassment than the Left and Islamic Jew haters.
I find it interesting to note that these individuals were charged via postal requisition rather than by by being brought to a police station and formally charged that way. I wonder why that was? I suppose that charging could have been proceeded in this way because it was cheaper than sending officers up to Lancashire but it also might be because the police wanted to avoid the sort of ‘community cohesion’ shitstorm that might have occurred had officers visited the alleged offenders and brought them to a local police station in order to charge them? The avoidance of such a ‘community cohesion shitstorm’ might have been on the Met’s mind as Blackburn has been claimed to be a hotbed of Islamic religious extremism.
The alleged offenders are due to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on October 6th. It will be interesting to see if a) they actually turn up and b) what happens at the court hearing itself. Of course those on trial should be considered as innocent unless proven guilty but it will also be interesting to see what defence they come up with?
Knowing what I know about the Met and its political biases, I fully expected that this would be a case that would be buried or pushed under the carpet. Thankfully that has not been the case and I believe that this case has been pursued in large part because of the public pressure that has been put on the police by all those, both Jews and non-Jews, who were disgusted by the rape threats being made in North London by members of the ‘Palestine’ convoy.
I have no confidence at all in either the Met police or CPS. Why has it taken so damned long and by POST?
I’m sure you’re right regarding the threats of violence, riots and accusations of phobias by various representatives of the Religion of Peace.
Funny how in my case, the corrupt Met Police had concocted a fake “complaint by a member of the public” against me, within 14hours and threatened arrest probably at 3am sirens blaring, if I didn’t go for a “voluntary” interview.
They cnuts kept me hanging for over five months over nowt, yet are seemingly happy to look the other way if action would be “inconvenient”.
Instead they make up the law as they go along and go after soft targets who won’t riot or call them waaaycist or phobic giving the illusion of activity while massaging otherwise lamentable clear-up rates.
Don’t be surprised if this comes to nothing, nor if some Labour worthy defends them.
My prediction, it will either be dropped as the Plods fail to break through the wall of silence by the “community” to avoid violence, accusations and the politicians losing their corrupt unverifiable mosque-whipped mass Muslim postal votes, or, it will become a lightning rod for every loon and Jew hater with ramifications for Jews everywhere no longer being safe, or at best it’ll be a slap on the wrist while the Left try and make Jew hatred a free speech issue.
I am not optimistic.
A sad but accurate assessment of the Met there. I doubt that this will be dropped by plod as a court date has been arranged. What could happen is the defendants don’t turn up and the Met don’t exactly put a massive amount of effort into apprehending the non attenders. Writing carefully in order to not cross the sub judice line cases like these where there defendants who are from shall we say ‘recalcitrant communities’ and there is a wall of silence then other evidence such as video and eye witness evidence would need to take the place of in community evidence. Agree that there might be a chance that some Labour or Soc Worker types end up defending them.