Because of course prosecutor Dan Pawson-Pounds knows far, far more about Islam than Ajmal Shahpal does.
In reality, Dan Pawson-Pounds doesn’t have the faintest idea what Islam teaches, but he knows that a case in which someone who called for the beheading of those who insult Islam is the defendant could easily get him charges of “Islamophobia,” and that would be professional death.
Meanwhile, did Ajmal Shahpal get banned from Twitter when he encouraged beheading for blasphemy? Or did that happen only when he got arrested? Were Twitter’s censors too busy shadowbanning and limiting the reach of opponents of jihad violence and Sharia oppression to take any notice of a benign fellow such as Ajmal?
“Terror suspect used Twitter account to glorify terrorist beheadings, court told,” by Matthew Cooper, Independent, March 8, 2023:
A Twitter user posted an image of a terrorism victim’s severed head, while encouraging others to decapitate anyone who insulted Islam, a terror trial jury has heard.
Ajmal Shahpal is alleged to have praised the killer of French school teacher Samuel Paty for being “as brave as a lion”, and lauded a terrorist who launched a 2020 attack near the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine as a “holy warrior”.
A jury at Birmingham Crown Court was told Shahpal, 41, also tweeted messages backing a Pakistan-based political party which supported the “out-of-hand murder of those who it thinks have committed blasphemy”.
Shahpal, from Nottingham, denies two counts of encouraging others to commit, prepare, or instigate acts of terrorism, and two alternative charges of the same offence being reckless as to whether such acts would be encouraged.
Opening the Crown’s case against Shahpal, prosecutor Dan Pawson-Pounds said: “This is a case about terrorism, that is the encouragement by this defendant of others to commit acts of terrorism.
“He did that by publishing tweets on his Twitter account which specifically encouraged others to behead those who he believed had insulted his religion, his religion being Islam.
“I hope that I hardly need say that this is not a case about mainstream Islam – a worldwide, peaceful religion with nearly two billion followers.
“The focus of this case is on the beliefs and the actions of the defendant, and others he was in contact with or referred to, that is part of that tiny, tiny minority of Muslims who have used religion to justify violence against others.”
Jurors were told Shahpal, originally from Kashmir, published tweets on his open account on September 26 2020, a day after Charlie Hebdo’s former office in Paris was targeted for a second time by Islamic extremist Zaheer Hassan Mehmood….
Linde B. says
I think lawyers, judges and court officers are more worried about inclusiveness rather than getting to the facts and letting the public know them. So I doubt this Muslim terrorist will get more than a few days in jail or have to pay a fine more than a week’s worth of ice cream Sundaes.?
Shawn says
Couple generations done the road ,people will say,”why didn’t anyone stop this”.
commonsense says
+1
gravenimage says
Grimly likely, Shawn.
Uber says
The judicial system is broken
tim gallagher says
This is the sort of garbage that islam brings to any society that is foolish enough to let it in. I’m sure that this lawyer must have noticed that islam is not peaceful, and never has been, but, like most normal human beings, he wants to live a peaceful life, probably wants his family to have a peaceful life, without death threats, etc, from Muslim scum, so he comes out with the usual bullshit about how islam is a peaceful religion and how the violent Muslims are only a “tiny, tiny minority”. No doubt, they have already let too many Muslims into the UK and this is exactly the type of crap that Muslims bring to any society. The Muslim threats of violence, and their terrorist actions, mean that non-Muslims are often afraid to tell the truth which is probably the case with this lawyer. Muslims will wreck all non-Muslim societies if large numbers of them are let into a country.
Alan Knight says
The “legal” profession are the “Useful Idiots” that Lenin referred to. Like the “Useful idiots”, lawyers will find that once Islam has taken over their country, they will be liquidated.
libertyORdeath says
“I hope that I hardly need say that this is not a case about mainstream Islam – a worldwide, peaceful religion with nearly two billion followers.”
I think this gets to the heart of it. He probably knows that Islam is NOT a peaceful religion by any measure. Over 42,000 jihad attacks in less than 25 years demonstrates that without any doubt.
His real “understanding” about the “religion of peace” is found in the second part – that it is made up of nearly 2 BILLION people, in which there exists TENS OF MILLIONS of jihadis, Islamists, and Islamic supremacists. He knows this just as well as we do…and he’s SCARED.
Abusing Christians or the secular humanist kaffirs currently running our once great Western nations will never invite death threats, “religious” fatwas, or threats of beheading or the rape of their family. But he knows that a large percentage of the 2 billion muslims, millions of which are now living in his home country, will definitely be a threat to him if he errs on the side of sanity.
I hate that you’re right Mr. Spencer. You called this creeping shariah and islamic supremacy DECADES ago now. I wish more would have listened.
gravenimage says
Muslim wants those who insult Islam beheaded, prosecutor says case not about ‘mainstream Islam, a peaceful religion’
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Another witless apologist for Islam.
kq6kq6kq6 says
It’s an old song first sung by Bush II right after the 9/11/2001 attacks.
anonymous says
Jews and Christians, they are friends of one another!
Deodata says
Well to counter his statement I would like all Muslim terrorist killed, the rest should be sent to a Muslim country.
joanofark06 says
I sometimes put these “Islam” articles in my bookmarks under certain characteristics (then, after getting too many in my bookmarks, they’re moved to an external drive), and so, I wanted to put this Islam articles, under the subject of “Countries”, but I can’t figure out what country to put it under.
The article mentions “Twitter” a few times, but is Twitter in other countries, or just in the US (which I’ve always thought it was a US thing)?
And since it came from the “Independent”, I believe that is a Britain website of news?
I could look for the answers to these questions on completing an online search, but…I’m always too busy, and plus, I could just NOT file this article…I’ve got enough articles on Islam anyway, from practically every country anyway…
“is alleged to have praised the killer of French school teacher Samuel Paty”…. so was he in France to do this, or was the French teacher living here in the US?
“A jury at Birmingham Crown Court was told Shahpal, 41….” Is this Court in Britain?
“Shahpal, from “Nottingham, denies two counts of encouraging others to commit,…..” Now Nottingham DOES sound like it’s in Britain! ?
So two sentences/questions for Britain, one for France….but he could live here in the US?
Just would like to be clarified! 🙂
David Foot says
Insulting Islam? In Wakefield the police had a chat with the terrorist and the school suspended and punished the totally innocent!
The Law of England. The right of property and freedom of speech were not upheld by the despicable police
The right of the moslem to enforce their cult of evil using terror – quran 8:12 was upheld by the rotten HM Constabulary at Wakefield!
I have just seen a picture from Mecca where the sewers were blocked by qurans which is exactly the place where the word of the Best Deceiver 3:54 belongs, and moslems rightfully put them there.
So this guy should go and deal with the moslems of Mecca and he and his quran shouldn’t even be allowed in England.
OLD GUY says
Awe yes the peaceful islam, with murder and violence reported daily by muslims following islamic teachings and Islamic leaders.