“I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Then strike the necks and strike their fingertips.” (Quran 8:12)
It’s now a done deal in the West: terror has indeed been struck in the hearts of disbelievers in the religion of peace. For some reason, while “opening the Crown’s case against Shahpal, prosecutor Dan Pawson-Pounds” felt he had to defend Islam by stating: “This is a case about terrorism, that is the encouragement by this defendant of others to commit acts of terrorism. He did that by publishing tweets on his Twitter account which specifically encouraged others to behead those who he believed had insulted his religion, his religion being Islam. I hope that I hardly need say that this is not a case about mainstream Islam – a worldwide, peaceful religion with nearly two billion followers.”
Indeed, most Muslims are peaceful, but is mainstream Islam a peaceful religion? Consider this question: in how many Islamic countries are citizens free to show cartoons of Muhammad? Can anyone guess what might happen if they did? Now Islamic blasphemy tenets have arrived on Western soil. Consider also: over 12 million Muslims have been killed by their coreligionists since 1948. Minority Islamic sects such as the Ahmadis continue to be persecuted for not adhering to mainstream Islam.
Twitter (pre-Elon Musk) was notorious for its cancel culture, which was aimed specifically at conservatives, and particularly at Trump-supporters (including Trump himself). Yet Ajmal Shahpal “posted an image of a terrorism victim’s severed head, while encouraging others to decapitate anyone who insulted Islam,“ and this was apparently not in violation of Twitter’s user policies.
“Terror suspect used Twitter account to glorify terrorist beheadings, court told,” Express and Star, March 8, 2023:
A Twitter user posted an image of a terrorism victim’s severed head, while encouraging others to decapitate anyone who insulted Islam, a terror trial jury has heard.
Ajmal Shahpal is alleged to have praised the killer of French school teacher Samuel Paty for being “as brave as a lion”, and lauded a terrorist who launched a 2020 attack near the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine as a “holy warrior”.
A jury at Birmingham Crown Court was told Shahpal, 41, also tweeted messages backing a Pakistan-based political party which supported the “out-of-hand murder of those who it thinks have committed blasphemy”.
Shahpal, from Nottingham, denies two counts of encouraging others to commit, prepare, or instigate acts of terrorism, and two alternative charges of the same offence being reckless as to whether such acts would be encouraged.
Opening the Crown’s case against Shahpal, prosecutor Dan Pawson-Pounds said: “This is a case about terrorism, that is the encouragement by this defendant of others to commit acts of terrorism.
“He did that by publishing tweets on his Twitter account which specifically encouraged others to behead those who he believed had insulted his religion, his religion being Islam.
“I hope that I hardly need say that this is not a case about mainstream Islam – a worldwide, peaceful religion with nearly two billion followers…..
