British court jails man who insulted Muslim woman
A man was jailed for 15 months in Britain on Thursday for spitting at a Muslim woman and insulting her religion by equating it with terrorism.
Charles Adams, 23, confronted veiled Michelle Idrees, as she returned home by train from a ceremony remembering victims of the July 7, 2005 suicide bombings on London's transit system.
Prosecutors said Adams had been to watch a soccer match with his brother, Mark, 26, and his father, also Mark, 50.
He chanted "Terrorists, bombers. Terrorists, bombers" at Idrees and told her that her children would grow up to be "suicide bombers", they told Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court. When Idrees answered back, he spat at her.
"You started this series of events off," Judge Sir David Calvert-Smith told Adams in sentencing him. "When to your surprise, instead of cowering meekly at your abuse, she answered back, you increased the venom of your abuse, culminating in what was a disgusting form of common assault by spitting in her face."
Adams' father was sentenced to 30 weeks in jail, suspended on condition of good behavior, and his brother was ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work in the community.
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The United Kingdom is toast...
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Thursday, November 23, 2006
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