| White Racist Gets Off Lightly for Terrorism |
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| Saturday, 27 June 2009 | |
 A white supremacist who threatened to blow up Scotland's main mosque and behead Muslims has walked away with a police sentence of "breaching the peace".If a Muslim had threatened something similar on non-Muslims, they'd be locked up indefinitely for terrorism charges. Why the blatant hypocrisy from our so called "justice" system?
A white supremacist will be sentenced today for threatening to blow up Scotland’s main mosque and behead Muslims.
Neil MacGregor, who described himself to police as “a proud racist”, admitted at earlier court proceedings to threatening to bomb Glasgow Central Mosque and kill a Muslim a week until all the mosques in Scotland were closed. What has amazed and angered Muslims is that MacGregor’s plot has received scant mention in the Scottish press and none at all in the wider UK media. There has also been accusations of double standards against the police and prosecuting authorities because MacGregor, 36, was charged only with breaching the peace and not much more serious terrorism offences. “Imagine if a Scottish Muslim pleaded guilty to threatening to blow up Glasgow Cathedral and behead one Christian a week until all British troops were pulled out of Iraq and Afghanistan,” said Osama Saeed, chief executive of the Scottish Islamic Foundation and a leading member of the Scottish National Party. “There would be outrage, right? It would be splashed over the front page of every newspaper in the land. It would be the top of all news bulletins.” Yet in this case, it was only after Mr Saeed began phoning major news organisations and after a motion was tabled in the Scottish parliament that the case attracted even limited media coverage. In his parliamentary motion, Frank McAveety, a Labour member of parliament from Glasgow, expressed “disappointment that recent threats to Glasgow Central Mosque and threats to behead one Muslim a week have been under-reported, and calls for the media to ensure that abhorrent acts of terrorism are covered regardless of the perpetrators”. MacGregor made his threats in an e-mail and a phone call to Strathclyde Police last year. He was said to have been angered after seeing a video of the beheading of Ken Bigley, a British engineer who was kidnapped in Baghdad in 2004. In his e-mail, MacGregor said: “I’m a proud racist and a National Front [an extreme right-wing organisation] member. “We as an organisation have decided to deal with the current threat from Muslims in our own British way, like our proud ancestors. “Our demands are very small. Close all mosques in Scotland. If our demands aren’t met by next Friday, we’ll kidnap one Muslim and execute him or her on the internet, just like they did to our Ken Bigley. “Those monster evil Muslims cut off his head with a kitchen knife, so we would like to repay the compliment. Every week we’ll kidnap and behead a Muslim if our demands aren’t met.” MacGregor subsequently called police to say he had planted a nail bomb in Glasgow Central Mosque. Officers immediately rushed to the building but found nothing. Bashir Maan, president of the mosque, said: “The police arrived in the evening and evacuated about 100 worshippers. They then searched the whole premises. The Muslim community was very worried at the time.” Mr Maan admitted he had been surprised when MacGregor was charged only with a racially motivated breach of the peace, instead of much more serious offences. It was, he felt, “a deliberate and overt illustration of double standards in the use of anti-terror laws”. The Scottish Islamic Foundation has written to the Crown Office, responsible for bring prosecutions in Scotland, demanding to know why MacGregor was charged with such a minor offence. “We believe that if a young Muslim had similarly been radicalised into threatening violence after viewing videos from Iraq, he would have been dealt with completely differently by the police and prosecuting authorities,” Mr Saeed said. “MacGregor can count himself lucky that his trial took place at the Sheriff Court rather than the High Court, where terrorism cases normally go, and the punishment is stiffer. This apparent discrepancy has to be explained. “Islamic and far-right extremism are stablemates when it comes to violence – a toxic mix of ideology and grievance. We hear glib assurances that far-right extremism is being dealt with, but the evidence says otherwise. “It’s all too easy to dismiss MacGregor as a fantasist and lunatic – many of the Muslims convicted of terror offences could be similarly described.” In a statement, the Crown Office said it had been decided to charge MacGregor with breach of the peace, aggravated by racial hatred, “after a full and careful consideration of all the facts and circumstances”. A spokesman added: “The facts of the case made it clear that this was a hoax bomb threat which was racially aggravated. There was no evidence of terrorist motivation or intention.” Muslims, however, are comparing the MacGregor case to that of Mohammed Atif Siddique, 22, who was jailed in Glasgow for eight years in Sept 2007, for “collecting terrorist-related information, setting up websites and circulating inflammatory terrorist publications” on the internet. Aamer Anwar, Siddique’s lawyer, told the Muslim News newspaper: “Why is it that when white males are involved in what is quite obviously the commission and preparation of terrorist acts, the authorities are not prepared to use the [anti-terrorism] law, but are ready to use it when Muslims are involved?” Source: The National    Readers have left 9 comments.
Not Really:
As abhorrent as this threat was I understand that the defendant never assembled material or plans to make a bomb and had no plot to actually carry out his threat. It was a hollow threat that had to be treated seriously until he was caught. There have been cases where white supremacists have gone further and made plans or rudimentary bombs and they have rightly been found guilty. By suggesting this loner was associated with terrorism conveys a false description.
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2009-06-27 06:37:40
K. Urban:
“Why is it that when white males are involved in what is quite obviously the commission and preparation of terrorist acts, the authorities are not prepared to use the [anti-terrorism] law, but are ready to use it when Muslims are involved?”
Politicians are using the law in a partial and prejudiced way to torment Muslims. There is no doubt that the white supremacist was going to commit an act of terror, and one designed to create terror. The Scottish authorities are giving light sentences because those in ‘’power’’ would like to deter Muslims from congregating or communicating in places of worship. Pressure must thus now be put on the Scottish authorities to review the light sentence given to this man and charge this white terrorist with further terrorist offences.
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2009-06-27 08:39:10
Shan:
Laws are equal but the people who apply the laws have their bias-prejudice racism, you may call it how you see it.
As i have said many times, the government has given a green light for muslims to be demonised and villified, if two people one white christian and one muslim committed the same offence, the muslim will be charged with more offences then the white person. If convicted the mulsim person shall receive a harsher sentence, this is reality that our elected representatives are not taking up.
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2009-06-27 11:09:05
@ not really:
Absoloutely right we cant legislate for a crime that has not occured, so you would obviously apply this generous paradigm universally yes?, and presumably due to the importance of presidence in the legal system so would the law.
So I wonder if you would have had such a placid response to the events in Birmingham a couple of years hence. Do you recall. BRITISH MUSLIMS PLOT TO BEHEAD MUSLIM soldier the cretins at the Sum and Daily Heil screamed. Well it seems the narrative is exactly analogous to this, a couls of vile fools talked yes simply talked of kidnapping a muslim soldier do you know how long the sentence was?, well I can tell you it was in the double figures ( I am talking years) on even flimsier evidence. So what say you to that what of the young girl who wrote distasteful poetry in Crawley? I have a feeling your discernment in respect of the burden of proof wont be so stringent.
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2009-06-27 11:50:39
Johnny Manning:
Protecting the public from extremists and terrorists means locking up brown suspects and taking away their liberty as only white people are considered memebers of the public. So it is no surprise that brown people are not to be protected from this white terrorist.
In the whites only british mind-set browns and blacks are immigrants and white people deserve to be treated better because this is their country so if they are protecting their country from immigrants so what. For too long 'immigrants' have been used as a smoke screen by corrupt politicans whilst they screw the taxpayer for everything they can.
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2009-06-27 17:22:50
Not Really:
<"There is no doubt that the white supremacist was going to commit an act of terror, and one designed to create terror.">
You seem to have some evidence that was not available to the court. What is it? In fact there is no evidence he was intending to carry out anything at all. Of course we can prosecute for a crime we believe is in the planning, such as the Airplane plot. But do you also remember the Ricin Plot? The suspects had the ingredients to make a poison as well as books on how to do it. And yet they were found NOT guilty. The "Lyrical Terrorist" was given a suspended sentence and I seem to remember some terrorism trials where innocent ment were found innocent. I believe some of you are going too far in your comments. Of course we need to be wary of terrorism from all sides but simply phoning a threat but having no plans or mechanism for carrying it out isn't going to get a charge under terrorism act. Ever see "12 Angry Men"? If you were in an argument where you said "I could kill you for saying that!" then do you think you should be arrested on that murder threat or is it something on the spur of the moment with no real intention?
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2009-06-27 20:49:22
Mohammed:
The Bottom line is that politicians will do almost anything to stay in power. The threat from international terrorism is a fantasy that has been exaggerated and distorted by politicians time and time again, in order to stoke fear into the masses and maintain power. It is a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned through governments around the world, the security services, and the international media.
Almost no one questions this myth about al-Qaida because so many people have got an interest in keeping it alive. A jittery media-driven democracy prompts further briefings and further stories. Few of these ominous announcements are retracted if they turn out to be baseless, fact is, there is no fact-checking about al-Qaida. All they need is a big bomb every 18 months to keep this going. In democracies, in order to galvanize the public for war, you have to make the enemy bigger, uglier and more menacing. The press has become accustomed to publishing scare stories and not retracting them; politicians are accustomed to responding to supposed threats rather than questioning them; the public are accustomed to the idea that some sort of apocalypse might be just around the corner. Insecurity is the key driving concept of our times. Politicians have packaged themselves as risk managers. There is also a demand from below for protection. The real reason for this insecurity is the decay of the 20th century's political belief systems and social structures, people have been left disconnected and fearful. Satan it seems, is man's worst enemy. "And (remember) when God said to the angels; Prostrate to Adam. So they prostrated except Satan. He was one of the jinns; he disobeyed the Command of his Lord. Will you then take him (Satan) and his offspring as protectors and helpers rather than Me while they are enemies to you? What an evil is the exchange for the wrong-doers (The Glorious Quran - 18: 50).
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2009-06-29 01:34:55
Q:
Just how many underground trains or airports have these nazi whites attacked?
BTW Mr.Mohammed Atif Siddique was found to have set a web site promoting terrorist activity and technical information about bombs and weapons.
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2009-06-29 13:52:13
A::
Forget about underground trains and airports that were also false flag ops planned by zionazis. Lets talk about how the white man indescriminately drops bombs on innocent men, women and children in deprived and relatively defenceless countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Pakistan etc. I would say that if anyone wanted to learn about terrorism, go and ask the white man. This is a white man's disease so deal with it.
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2009-06-30 21:10:03
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