29 January 2011

Five Muslims charged for inciting hatred against homosexuals

.... And when that Independent article was written, just two Muslims had been charged with stirring up 'hatred' for handing out leaflets outside a mosque suggesting that gay people should be executed.

Razwan Javed, 30, and Kabir Ahmed, 27, were accused of handing out a leaflet entitled 'The Death Penalty?', which called for the execution of homosexuals. [Archbishop Cranmer] Read more

Two charged with gay hate crime Two men have been arrested and charged with stirring up hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation, in the first prosecution of its kind. Razwan Javed, 30, and Kabir Ahmed, 27, are accused of handing out a leaflet headed The Death Penalty? outside the Jamia mosque in Derby in July 2010, the Crown Prosecution Service said. [The Guardian] Read more