Sharia in action in the UK: Man charged for ripping pages of Qur’an at soccer match

If Mark Stephenson had torn and thrown pages of the Bible, would he be charged? Or have the British authorities simply taken it upon themselves to prosecute violators of Sharia blasphemy laws? In light of the fact that they have charged Stephenson and banned Pamela Geller and me from entering the country, it is all the more imperative that they free Mohamed Jamal Miah and every other Muslim who is in prison in the UK immediately for doing something that would be taken for granted as acceptable behavior back home. David Cameron needs to end this Islamophobic inconsistency, get that cross off the flag, and declare Britain a fully Sharia-compliant state forthwith. It’s long overdue.
An update on this story. “Man charged after ‘Koran ripped up at football match,’” from the BBC, February 8 (thanks to John):
A man has been charged after pages were allegedly torn from the Koran and thrown during a football match.
Police said the incident happened on 7 December at a game between Birmingham City and Middlesbrough at St Andrews.
Mark Stephenson, 25, from Napoleon Drive, Bicton Heath, Shrewsbury, has been charged with causing racial or religiously-aggravated harassment.
He will appear at Birmingham Magistrates’ Court on 28 February.

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The George Zimmerman-DMX Boxing Match Is Not Justice for Trayvon

In the aftermath of his acquittal in the death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch coordinator whose shooting of Martin sparked a national debate about racial bias and so-called Stand Your Ground laws, has engaged in a series of provocative misadventures. He went rifle shopping. He’s begun a painting career. And on Tuesday night, right before what would have been Trayvon Martin’s 19th birthday, boxing promoter Damon Feldman announced Zimmerman’s latest stunt: he’ll be fighting the rapper DMX, theoretically for charity. (Feldman says the timing was incidental.)
My colleague Judd Legum has one great reason not to spend your pay-per-view dollars on the fight: it’ll almost certainly be a fraud. Feldman has a long record of promoting fake fights, though as Judd explains, “That’s not to say Feldman doesn't like to promote his fights as genuine in an effort to attract interest. Feldman maintains that he doesn't fix fights, but in 2011, he pleaded no contest to ‘charges of fixing fights and promoting fights without a license’ and sentenced to two years probation by a Pennsylvania court.” And it’s not clear that Feldman could actually set up a real contest between Zimmerman and DMX in which the blows are real and the outcome uncertain: he’d need a state or tribal commission to sanction the fight, and it’s not clear that any approval is forthcoming.
But I want to raise another issue. Feldman has tried to stir up support for the match on the grounds that it represents a way for Zimmerman’s critics to get some measure of fairness after the courts failed to convict them.
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