Religious hate crimes in England
Bookworm on Mar 16 2008 at 9:36 am | Filed under: Britain, Christians, England, Islam, Muslim violence
A vicar was in hospital last night after being attacked in his churchyard by two youths in what is being treated as a ‘faith hate’ crime.
Canon Michael Ainsworth, 57, was kicked and punched in the head as one of the attackers screamed “f***ing priest”.
He was left lying on the ground with deep cuts, bruising and two black eyes.
The attack took place in the early evening after Canon Ainsworth politely asked three Asian youths [that means "Muslim" in Brit-speak] who had gathered in the churchyard to quieten down.
Another group of youths intervened to protect him and they helped him into the rectory as the attackers fled.
The incident happened outside St George-in-the-East Church in Wapping, East London.
It has regularly had windows smashed by youths - who on one occasion shouted: “This should not be a church, this should be a mosque.”
Canon Ainsworth, a father of four, was taken to hospital and discharged after treatment, but was readmitted after a relapse.
The church is situated in the heart of Tower Hamlets where the majority of the population - some 57 per cent - belong to black and ethnic minority groups.
A third are of a Bangladeshi background.
In another attack on the church, families were showered with glass when a brick was thrown through a window during a service.
Mr Allan Ramanoop, a member of the Parochial Church Council, said often parishioners were too scared to challenge the gangs.
The Asian church member, who lives nearby, said: “I’ve been physically threatened and verbally abused on the steps of the church.
“On one occasion, youths shouted: ‘This should not be a church, this should be a mosque, you should not be here’.
“I just walked away from it - you are too frightened to challenge them. We have church windows smashed two to three times a month.
“The youths are anti-Christian. It’s terrible what they have done to Canon Ainsworth.
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Kamil Ahmed, leader at the Ensign Youth Club, based on a council estate close to the church, said: “There are a lot of 14 to 16-year-old Asians, drunk and high on cocaine, wandering round the estate.
“It might be the people responsible for this attack reacted badly to being told off rather than targeting the church in a faith hate way.”
Local Respect Party councillor Abjol Miah said: “There are isolated faith-hate attacks in the ward and borough, but generally relations are good between different religions. There are always individuals who will cause trouble.”
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Local Respect Party councillor Abjol Miah said: “There are isolated faith-hate attacks in the ward and borough, but generally relations are good between different religions. There are always individuals who will cause trouble.”
If, on the other hand, a group of English yobbos had attacked an Imam at a mosque in similar fashion, the good Respect Party councillor would have been up in arms about “anti-Islamic” hooligans. Respect, for many Muslims, is a one-way street.
Under Queen Elizabeth I, the British Lion roared loudly and set itself on the path that would make it the most powerful economic, political, cultural and military power the world had ever beheld. Ironic that today, in the reign of Elizabeth II, that wonderful lion should die with a such a sad, weak, plaintive meow.
Given that Helen’s response to a U S State Department report on Anti-Semitism (Judeophobia, hate the Joos, whatever.) increasing in the world, in large part coming from Muslims, was to reply “And now many Jews insist that we hate Muslims to support them”, I would be interested in her response to this incident.
Perhaps it would be “And now many Christians insist that we hate Muslims to support them.”
For the record, I am a Gentile/Goy, non-churchgoing.
Euros are trying to create a hate campaign against Asians, I see.
To every thing there is season. A time for peace and a time for war.
We did not ask for war. But…
Al
I have only two words for this: posse comitatus!
The concept is dormant at best in Merry Olde England these days, Danny. Self defense can cause you legal problems:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/28/ncrime128.xml
The fight ended with Kilroe, 25, receiving a single fatal stab wound to the chest from his own knife.
What an idiot. Depending on a knife to make yourself look tough, but so incompetent you get killed by your own. Ha ha, very funny.
“I tried to get away from the attacker but was left no option other than to defend myself. In the course of the attack I was stabbed to my head causing what could have been a life threatening injury and also repeated stab wounds to my back.
As Tim Larkin says, whoever gets the critical injury wins. Nothing turns in your favor until you injure the other guy. This guy was getting cut on the head and minimum penetration stabs of the back. None of that compared to the real injury, the direct deep penetration stab to the chest, cutting into vital organs and the central nervous system, initiating shock or death if it hits or even just goes up against the heart.
In the struggle with my attacker I understand he suffered an injury but I do not know how that injury was caused.
Guy needs to go get some TFT. Then he’ll know. Instead of living or dying based upon “luck”, how about people try to get more proactive about keeping themselves alive? Or have we sunk to the level where our own lives no matter matter?
Mr Dilworth said: “The Director of Public Prosecutions is determined to ensure that those who use reasonable force in defending themselves will enjoy the full protection of the law. They will not be prosecuted.”
And how much money and power are you getting for being part of the clique that decides what is “reasonable”?
Once again this raises the question of whether the bail laws are tight enough
Their defense of their negligent homicide actions of releasing violent criminals is “let’s make more laws about bail”. Yeah, that’ll solve things for people.
whether the law is sufficiently on the side of innocent people who are protecting their own homes or businesses from intruders.”
I’m under the impression these people think there’s some justification in the law protecting criminals from innocent people. Excuse me? How the hell would the law “not be sufficiently” on the side of men, women, and children being attacked by thugs and criminals? Is this Shariah land yet, people. I’m waiting.
As we 2nd Amendment supporters like to say, Zhombre - “better to be convicted by 12 than carried by six”
Carried or buried by six feet?