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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (8795)7/18/2007 7:05:46 PM
From: Proud_Infidel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20106
 
(UK:) Four men jailed over cartoon demo
news.bbc.co.uk ^ | 07/18/2007 | news.bbc.co.uk

news.bbc.co.uk

Javed, Muhid, Saleem and Rahman had denied holding extremist views Four Muslim men have been jailed for their part in protests at the Danish embassy in London, against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad. Mizanur Rahman, 24, Umran Javed, 27, and Abdul Muhid, 24, were each jailed for six years for soliciting to murder after telling a crowd to bomb the UK.

A fourth man, Abdul Saleem, 32, was jailed for four years for stirring up racial hatred at the protest in 2006.

The men, from London and Birmingham, were convicted at the Old Bailey.

Judge Brian Barker said their words had been designed to encourage murder and terrorism.

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