22 Months for Beheading Plot: One Law for British People, One Law for Islamists
Imagine if a group of indigenous British people were caught plotting to murder a Muslim just because he was a Muslim, and parade his head on a stick? Would these people get 22 months in jail or would they be sent to prison forever?
Before you answer that question, consider the fact that three Islamists from Birmingham have just been released early “on good behaviour” for precisely such a plot.
Hamid Elasmar, from Edgbaston; Zahoor Iqbal, from Kingstanding; and Mohammed Irfan, from Ward End, were all jailed after being taped planning to kidnap a soldier and then behead him “like a pig” in a lock-up garage.
Iqbal was originally jailed for seven years in February 2008 after he admitted supplying plot leader Parviz Khan with night vision goggles, bug sweeping devices and £12,000. All the equipment was to be sent to Islamists in Pakistan. The trial judge said Iqbal “believed he had an obligation to jihad.”
Elasmar, 46, was jailed after pleading guilty to assisting the terror cell. He was freed after serving just five months and is now living on housing benefits in a flat near to Edgbaston Cricket Ground.
The Morocco-born Islamist has not been deported as he has British National status gained when he married his English ex-wife.
Irfan was jailed after admitting to supplying Khan with equipment destined for their co-religionists in Pakistan.
During their trial, the court heard how two weeks prior to their arrest they met at Elasmar’s council flat to plot the release of video footage of the planned execution on the Internet.
A listening device installed in Khan’s home recorded him telling Elasmar that he intended to parade the dead soldier’s head on a stick.
“We give the judgment… we’ll then cut it off like you cut a pig, man.
“Then you put it on a stick. Then we throw the body, burn it, send the video,” Khan was heard to say.
Another member of the Islamist terrorist gang, Basiru Gassama, of Hodge Hill, Birmingham, has also been released after serving less than 18 months for failing to disclose information about the plot. Apparently his role was to identify the victim and lure him away with the promise of drugs, drink and women. Gassama is now living on taxpayer-funded benefits in London.
One can only wonder how indigenous British people would have been treated by the judicial system if the roles were reversed … or does one not even have to ask that question?
