Asim Posted October 18, 2012 Posted October 18, 2012 A man who posted an offensive Facebook message following the deaths of six British soldiers has been given a community order. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-19883828 His crime was posting comments that were tasteless, rude, offensive, and highly insensitive to those who had lost their loved ones, but were they worthy of a criminal trial? According to various prominent UK news organisations, including The Independent, the following comments posted by a 20-year-old British man, Azhar Ahmed, on the social networking website Facebook, landed him in hot water: "People gassin [venting off] about the deaths of soldiers! What about the innocent familys who have been brutally killed.. The women who have been raped.. The children who have been sliced up..! Your enemy's were the Taliban not innocent harmless familys. All soldiers should DIE & go to HELL! THE LOWLIFE F*****N SCUM! gotta problem go cry at your soliders grave & wish him hell because that where he is going." http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/14368/azhar-ahmed-punished-for-irresponsible-freedom-of-speech/ ------------------------------------------------------ Freedom of speech/Freedom of Expression??? :hmmm: oh yeah comes with "responsibility" and should not "hurt" anyone else, right right...
ganeshran Posted October 18, 2012 Posted October 18, 2012 UK has never been big on freedom of expression. Its the USA which takes the subject very seriously because of their first amendment Few cases I remember are the airport tweet where a user jokingly said that he will blow up the airport and was arrested, or the recent one during the olympics where a teen was questioned because he taunted a swimmer who failed to get a medal. Of course the whole thing is ridiculous and a waste of time.
Crookbond Posted October 18, 2012 Posted October 18, 2012 The sentence was met with cries of "disgusting" from protesters in the public gallery, some of whom walked out while the district judge was speaking. One man was detained by police while leaving the court after shouting comments at the judge. After the hearing, a man who had a conviction for sending a menacing electronic communication on Twitter overturned, criticised Ahmed's sentence saying it was a bad day "for freedom of speech".
Clarke Posted October 18, 2012 Posted October 18, 2012 These P@ki crybabies :haha: Diff countries => diff set of laws. Everyone will not adapt to YOUR point of view, you have to adopt to theirs in their land & the sooner you get this in your skull the better it will be for your lot. He can appeal in a higher court though, i promise there's no law that hands him a death sentence unlike some countries (wink wink). Good that you see no wrong in the behavior.
bihutoli Posted October 18, 2012 Posted October 18, 2012 Had it happened in the US it would have been hypocritical/unfair. However we're talking of two diff countries here. Although the British bray a lot about it, the UK doesn't seem like its too strong on the freedom of spech thing.
coffee_rules Posted October 18, 2012 Posted October 18, 2012 Do they punish every offensive brit who goes on the offensive on twitter/FB? Different rules, this reeks of double standards. I agree with the OP. Whatever happens in MidEast (regarding similar treatment to non-muslims), the western countries are prone to be more tolerable. How about just deleting the post, banning the user from the page, moderation on the FB page?
gangnam style Posted October 18, 2012 Posted October 18, 2012 ^ yea, they do. Infact, indigenous British sometimes feel like second-class citizens in their own country when compared to British Muslims, who get away with a lot more shi*. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2106631/Fireman-Sam-creator-Dave-Jones-detained-branded-racist-burqa-joke-airport-security.html
gangnam style Posted October 18, 2012 Posted October 18, 2012 and another. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2070562/Muslim-girl-gang-kicked-Rhea-Page-head-yelling-kill-white-slag-FREED.html
Clarke Posted October 18, 2012 Posted October 18, 2012 The reek of hypocrisy is hard to miss in the UK ruling and the OP has done well to highlight it. The judgment itself has some bizarre observations. What the OP is indirectly referring to is the famous third rate video/film which was made in USA and the ruling which occurred in UK. Two separate countries with different legal systems. The case wouldn't stand a chance in the former. What the OP has done is club the two countries together to present an innocent us vs discriminatory them picture, which is outright dishonest.
Iconoclast Posted October 18, 2012 Posted October 18, 2012 If they gonna lock this guy up then should lock up everyone in England because we've all made 'tasteless, rude, offensive and insensitive' comments some point in our lives. Stupid is as stupid does as Forest Gump would say.
The Outsider Posted October 18, 2012 Posted October 18, 2012 LOL! Stupidity of unbelievable proportions. They did not even attempt to coat the punishment with hate speech. I hope their police get flooded with complaints about what they found offensive on the interwebzzz.
Clarke Posted October 18, 2012 Posted October 18, 2012 There is a British movie about a Muslim guy who hates Jews and realizes later that he was born a Jew. The police initially show up to arrest him for inciting hatred against another group but leave without doing so after realizing he's basically commenting on his own community :haha:
vvvslaxman Posted October 23, 2012 Posted October 23, 2012 Though the guy is at wrong.. sending prison for facebook remarks will set a bad precedence.
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