From the International Herald Tribune:<\/p>\n
Prophet cartoons protester convicted in London of incitement to murder<\/p>\n
LONDON: A speaker at a rally protesting against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed was convicted Thursday of inciting murder.<\/p>\n
Mizanur Rahman, 24, of London, spoke at a February 2006 demonstration protesting the publication in Europe of the cartoons, first published in Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten daily.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors showed video of Rahman speaking about British soldiers and saying, “We want to see them coming home in body bags. We want to see their blood running in the streets of Baghdad.”<\/p>\n
Rahman also had placards calling for the beheading and annihilation of anyone who insulted Islam.<\/p>\n
He and three others convicted of offenses at the demonstration face sentencing on July 18.<\/p>\n
Rahman had pleaded not guilty, and said the microphone had been thrust into his hand and that he was only repeating chants from others.<\/p>\n
From IHT<\/a> =========<\/p>\n For those wishing to refresh their memory of Feb 2006’s Cartoon Crisis, Kendall has a lot of links and wrote an excellent analysis of the issue on his old blog<\/a>. (If the old blog is down, here’s the Google Cache version<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the International Herald Tribune: Prophet cartoons protester convicted in London of incitement to murder LONDON: A speaker at a rally protesting against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed was convicted Thursday of inciting murder. Mizanur Rahman, 24, of London, spoke…<\/span><\/p>\n
\n(hat tip: Abu Daoud)<\/p>\n