Comments on: Breaking the speed limit will earn you an immediate driving ban – unless you’re a Muslim with two wives

By: paul

paul — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:42:09 +0000

one rule for some. one rule for others.
i wonder what would have happened if he had have killed or injured another road user?

By: crash course

crash course — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:06:39 +0000

Shouldn’t he be banned from driving and then be charged with bigamy…

By: Stuart H.

Stuart H. — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:45:23 +0000

To be fair,a certain amount of turning a blind eye goes on when it comes to powerful Christians too.
Some years back as a young local paper reporter, I noticed that a prominent clergyman in my neck of the woods was over-fond of the communion wine, so sermons later in the day were always good for juicy quotes.
My editor – a devout Christian – was invited by said clergyman’s staff to ‘search his conscience’ as to whether such reports were ‘helpful’ to the church’s image.
Something good did come of it though – I pointed out that the clergyman in question was driving himself from church to church to save on expenses, and the scandal if he ever hit someone while drunk would not be one a local paper or court could bury. The agreement reached was that I did not file reports of his drunken ramblings which might later make their way to the national press and in return one of his juniors always drove him about until he subsequently retired.

By: The Heresiarch

The Heresiarch — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:01:55 +0000

No chance of a bigamy conviction, I’m afraid. He only has two wives under Islamic “law”, presumably. This is not legally recognised (unless you’re calculating benefits payments, bending immigration rules or getting of driving bans, obviously…)

By: Toby

Toby — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:04:49 +0000

So, an eminently sensible road safety rule ignored because of a bit of hand-wringing by the defendant. Unfortunately, not that uncommon. I remember a case where a woman kept her licence after killing a cyclist because she “needed her car” to take her kids to school. A journey of about 2 miles.

I was going to say that I trust he is being investigated for bigamy. But what’s the point? He’d use a bit of it’s-my-faith-so-grant-me-privileges-denied-to-others special pleading to get out of that too.

By: Buffy

Buffy — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:44:17 +0000

Aye Caramba! Are people going to be given religious exemptions on any conceivable basis from everything now? Why have laws and rules at all?

Yet atheists are supposedly the ones people have to fear, for we’re the ones who are immoral and have no objective morality.