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Mosque ‘attacked’ with bacon; Scottish man receives a 10-month jail sentence for offending Muslims
THE Chairman of the Edinburgh and Lothian Regional Equality Council, Foysol Choudhury MBE, is delighted that a 25-year-old Edinburgh man has been given a 10-month jail sentence for offending Muslims, and declared:
All religions are to be respected.

Foysol Choudhury MBE
Wayne Stilwel attached bacon to the door handles of the Central Mosque in Potterrow and threw rashers of bacon into the mosque itself on January 31. He was later arrested when he was identified on CCTV.
According to this report, his actions were described as “grossly offensive” by Sheriff Gordon Liddle when he appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday.
Stilwel admitted breach of the peace. Speaking after sentencing, Choudhury said:
I really welcome the sheriff’s decision to impose a jail sentence in this case. We live in what is always called a ‘multi-cultural society’ and I think we need to work together and prove that is true.
We need to respect everyone’s religion or culture, whatever it may be. Hopefully a sentence like this will act as a lesson to show people that all religions need to be respected.
The court heard that Islam prohibits its followers from consuming pork products made and that Stilwel’s actions “offended people at the mosque”.
Following the “attack”, Stilwel admitted to police officers that he was aware his behaviour could cause offence.
Sentence on Stilwel, an inmate at the city’s Saughton jail, had been deferred by Sheriff Liddle to obtain reports about the offender’s character. He told Stilwel that a prison sentence was “inevitable”.
At an earlier hearing, the court heard from depute procurator fiscal Ian Wallace who said police were called to the mosque following the attack.
He told the court that police later traced Stilwel and arrested him.
He said Stilwel:
Was aware of the significance of the bacon.
Defence solicitor Matthew Nicholson yesterday told the court that his client was sorry for his crime and accepted that he would be going to prison. He added:
He fully realises that he will receive a custodial sentence.
Meanwhile we learn that Salah al Bandar, the former Liberal Democrat councillor who was one of several Islamists who issued death threats against Muslim apostate Nahla Mahmoud, has been cleared of any wrong-doing by his party.

Salah Al Bandar, left, pictured with David Howarth MP
According to the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain, Spencer Hagard, Chair of the Cambridge Liberal Democrats, initiated an investigation into the allegations against al Bandar and found them “groundless”. Instead, he said the inquiry:
Increased [his] previously high esteem for al Bandar.
The CEMB is outraged, and police have advised Mamoud not to anger the the “esteemed” Muslim any further.
Hat tip: Glen and BarrieJohn (bacon report)

[…] By Barry Duke […]
What punishment would be appropriate for this pair, then?
http://youtu.be/i9SSOWORzw4
I’m losing the will to live!
Offending people, not respecting a religion, merits a jail term? I’m sorry but I think that that is way ott. A fine, yes, maybe even some community service, but jail?
Did you see Mr. Choudhury leading the ‘not in our name’ protest when Muslim butchers slaughtered a British soldier in the streets, and previously against the Muslim rape gangs that even the BBC admits exist? No? Well, we must pick our battles and get offended only at the most important things.
Is this what the Prison Service is for? An amount of community service would surely be adequate to say ‘don’t be a dick – and don’t waste food…’ Banging someone up is offensive.
Waste of bacon and a waste of taxpayer’s money. Both cases are victories for the United Islamic Kingdom of Great Britain.
Imagine: “Wayne Stilwel attached bacon to the door handles of the vegetarian cafe in Potterrow and threw rashers of bacon into the cafe itself on January 31″. How is that different?
Since when has ‘breach of the peace’ been an imprisonable, criminal, offence? And why was a prison sentence “inevitable”?
“Islam prohibits its followers from consuming pork products”
The reason for this was once explained to me by a well-respected imam: “Muslims are too stupid to eat pork. This is the whole point of the ruling. Anyone stupid enough to believe that there is a sacred reason not to eat pork, is too stupid to deserve bacon, ham, pork and what have you. Thus, we humbly do not eat pork.”
I nodded sagely and carved myself another slice of roast pig, while he chewed his lentils, deep in thought.
All religion should be respected. This appalling sentence indicates the opposite: all religions, being based on fantasy and whose followers tend towards self righteous bigotry and the infliction of punishment on the innocent, should be treated with the disrespect they deserve.
As I said before, under an inpenetrable armor of pc pandering, cultural relativists pave the way for the laws to change in such ways. All heads in the sand.
Imagine the disappointment the CEMB must feel. Some of them have escaped from countries where their lives are threatened and even living in the UK is no guarentee of safety. To find themselves with little or no support from British politicians and the pólice must be very painful.
He threw bacon? Was it some sort of ham-bush?
@David Anderson: We need not expect much from our politicians who tend to be self seeking narcissists which an indecent enthusiasm for maximising their expenses. They have the deplorable tendency to confuse political correctness, which brings facile praise, with morality.
One consequence is that they do not urge a robust attack on the horrors of Female Genital Mutilation, practised in the UK or the slaughter of animals strung up by their heels to bleed to death, while supporting the nonsense of what they term disrespect for religion. Others see the same thing as free speech.
How odd indeed.
A group of people who believe that a man ascended into a heaven on a winged horse….an odd belief….yet are are offended at the sight of particular part of a food group….bacon.
Yet the bacon man will serve time away from society.
If you asked a typical citizen on the street which of the two above actions is more deserving of time away from society …..most would say the flying horse former group seems to be in more need of mental adjustment.
Do Muslims have pets?? Are they permitted to keep ….ham-sters?
Could not resist after reading The Woggler.
We need to respect everyone’s religion or culture? why Religion seems to lead to the acceptance of animals having their throats slit and being allowed to bleed to death without intervention of the RSPCA; it allows little girls to have their clitoris sliced off with out a lot of outrage from our self righteous religious leaders and politicians.it accepts fanatical mullahs to preach hatred in their churches; it leads to a most benign view of women being incarcerated as skivvies and sexual objects with their faces covered if the leave their home.
People need to be respected, but ridiculous beliefs don’t. We need to respect Muslims as people, but, as with any religious person, it is only appropriate to, as Harris would say, have a “change in conversation” about what they espouse based on no evidence. No one would fault me for mocking someone who takes Peter Pan stories as dogma. Same thing here. And certainly there is no justification for putting me in jail for it. However, the mocking of religious belief is becoming more and more taboo, and more punished by the law, especially in reference to Islam.
Messing with the building and throwing schite at or in it is not just making fun of their BS beliefs, its property damage, it aint much and easily cleaned, but still that is what it was. Real skeptical atheists make fun of the beliefs, we do not attack people or buildings, attacking people and buildings is for the religious to do.
Someone lobbed a pork product onto the building site of a mosque a few years ago down our way. Construction was set back some three years or more. HAA-ha.
I encourage everyone everywhere to throw bacon into the mosque everywhere – but make sure you’re wearing a niqab so you’re not recognised.
I think it’s a pity you linked these stories. The Lib-Dems behaviour in supporting Salah al Bandar is disgraceful and should be publicised widely.
As for the bacon attack, the sentence looks a bit steep, but it appears from your article that the man sentenced was already in jail, so maybe that’s part of the explanation.
And meanwhile in Selfridges a muslim sales assistant says F*** off I’m not serving you” to EDL leader and friend after asking if he is in fact the EDL leader. The shop assistant doesn’t even get fired. And we all remember the muslims burning Poppies at the Cenotaph but no charges being brought.
@barriejohn: that fish dance made me cackle so much! thanks. Then I realised your hidden agenda – did you see the fish being slapped in the face as rashers of bacon?….I did…so I secretly cackled some more. Fuck!- we need another Python era to blow all these idiotic religions right off the planet.
And by the by, I agree, that magnet man does look so frightfully gay – his North pole doesn’t know which way to point.
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1859: I never saw anyone drsssed like that in a laboratory in my day!
Angela: I didn’t see that story, but the Mail has been going ballistic over the following.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/09/16/muslim-family-morrisons-pasty-alcohol_n_3935714.html
Mislabelling may be potentially serious where foodstuffs are concerned, but how would eating a “non-halal” pasty harm a three-year-old boy; and were these berks being FORCED to consume champagne – or are Muslims mysteriously contaminated if they come into close proximity to a bottle of the stuff?
Here it is:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/09/16/edl-tommy-robinson-refused-service-selfridges_n_3935038.html
Solidarity with the employee who refused to serve fascist ‘Tommy Robinson’ of the EDL – shame on Selfridge’s for sending him home.
I don’t fucking care if it was Hitler him fucking self who walked into the fucking shop – it is not up to me who I serve based on my political views. The fucking muslim who threw a hissy-fit should be fucking sacked.
I have always maintained that the best defence against Muslims that attack you when you are demonstrating against Islam is to throw pork chops at them.
Philip, these French kids should should have been armed with pork chops:
http://forward.com/articles/183867/jewish-students-attacked-on-sports-courts-in-franc/
Oh, perhaps not. They were Jewish …
@barriejohn. I saw the Morrisons pasty story a couple of days ago and find it odd that considering the dietary fascism espoused by the Muslim parent, he didn’t read the label on the packaging. Would there have been such a fuss if a vegetarian found meat in a veggie food product or the Champagne offered to a recovering alcoholic? The religious childishly stamp their feet and make a scene and the rational give in – mustn’t offend their stupid beliefs.
@T We get the point, no need to repeat it.
Angela: Quite. I’m not too sure why Morrison’s are talking about “mislabelling” here at all, as we all know (well – intelligent people do anyway) that the fact that a food product claims to be cheese flavoured is no guarantee that it actually contains cheese! Anyway, that little boy looks as though he has consumed far too many pies already, and maybe Children’s Services should be looking into that (as indoctrination is beyond their remit).
I feel highly insulted.
Yes – he’s a Muslim.
@ L. Long…it’s not property damage. If it was anything but a mosque it would have been considered “protest” and at most given a small fine. I love bacon too, but I think you’re giving it too much credit.
Yes, T. Calm down, dear, and have a nice hot cup of tea. Don’t forget to keep taking the tablets.
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I actually like, no, I loved T’s rant! Unfortunately, so many people want to close their eyes to the the true face of Islam and go into denial thinking, “no religion can honestly be that bad!”
You Brits have a history of pandering to the bully until you’re in a fight for your very existence. Does the name Neville Chamberlain ring a bell?
If the muslims want others to respect their religion, then they have to start respecting other people’s religion. A precept which is anathema to Islamic dogma. If the bullies are not gonna play fair it’s time to kick them off the playground.
@Tony: We Brits have an attitude that tends to allow other people the right to live and let live, which to less subtle outsiders looks a bit like “pandering to the bully”.
On the other hand “you Americans” (which I assume you may well be) have a habit of interfering with the business of others on an obscenely disgusting scale. Do the names Ronald Reagan, George Bush and George Dubya Bush ring a bell?
Neville Chamberlain, by the way, allowed us a year’s breathing space in which we were able to increase our capability for war. I misremember the exact figures (many years since I studied it at school) but in that last year between ’38 and ’39 the number of warplanes that we had was multiplied ten-fold. And of those warplanes, we (by implication of your post) cowardly Brits were able to hold off invasion for a remarkable length of time.
Andy. Unless you have something interesting to say then I suggest you log off and shut up.
@Joe Fogey
That’s what original article wanted you to think. In fact, he’d already been locked up pending sentence – no wonder he expected to “go” to gaol. Talk about “do not pass go”!
http://www.misanthropegirl.me.uk/tag/wayne-stilwell/
@matt…Not to start another war, but I think you’re missing Tony’s point. Muslims ARE outsiders in European countries. More importantly, they often ARE bullies. And their respect for your subtlety and hospitality is evident in stories like this. It is simply a clash of culture. Theirs is, historically, a conquering culture. Tear down a church, build a mosque. Tear down a synagogue, build a mosque. Individuals may differ, but the general force of Islamic culture has no interest in acclimating and bowing before your laws, and no interest in coexisting with your culture. They want your culture replaced with theirs, and your law replaced with sharia. (Sticking strictly to Muslims this thread) We have a similar problem here, though on a smaller scale. On 9/11 there was video of entire US Muslim neighborhoods dancing in the streets. And since then, there have been literally dozens of real cases where our law was superceded by sharia judgment. We strip search grandma and two year old children because of our hospitality for their culture; we can’t assume that the next plane bomber will likely be a Middle Eastern Muslim. Our hospitality, and yours, isn’t creating a melting pot. It’s creating a salad bowl, and more and more ingredients are being replaced by garbanzo beans. Before you know it, it won’t even be a salad…it’ll be hummus (totally cheesy, racist analogy, lol, but you get the point.) To your credit though, yes, our presidents are imperialistic, and in the case of Republicans, retarded cowboys.