Everton fan avoids jail after tweeting an offensive image

I think you've missed the point completely - this was about religion not race. It would perhaps help if you were willing to engage in discussion. Replying to the thread with terse questions and the quoting someone and saying "what the *** are you talking about" in response to their point isn't too constructive.

You’re discussing a man who pled guilty to racially aggravated actions. That’s the law he broke. I haven’t missed the point.

Well I don't agree.

Are you going to provide any clarity here on your pov? Do you understand what racially aggravated means?

Sure.

Your stupidity is offending me. That’s not illegal.

That picture offended Mo Salah. That’s illegal.
 
Compare and contrast with the sorts of comment and cartoons that get distributed in widely circulated publications that sometimes viciously attack and lampoon other people, religions and ideologies and you realise the UK is sliding back into becoming a defacto blasphemy state.

Hell as a well known and widely followed author you can even non to subtlely suggest that the current pm should be hung from a lamp post....


Will he be seeing the inside of a court room?
 
He got sentenced for a racially aggravated action. That’s about as cut and dry as you can get.

There is a bit of irony to your first post in the thread and I guess this perhaps explains why you were unable to answer the other poster's question above and instead told him to read the article:

You understand what racially aggravated means?

It seems that perhaps you don't:

https://vhsfletchers.co.uk/racially-aggravated-offences/

So, shouting racist abuse or making racist comments will make an offence racially aggravated. An offence will also be deemed racially aggravated where no comments are made but the offence is committed against someone because of their race.

Offences as a result of hostility toward a religious group, rather than due to race, are treated in the same way.

The fact that the victim may be indifferent to any abuse is irrelevant to whether the offence is racially aggravated.

Did you not understand that this was about religion? I think you've got a bit hung up on the article mentioning "racially aggravated".
 
He got sentenced for a racially aggravated action. That’s about as cut and dry as you can get.


The reporting is a little hazy. Even the CPS press release is unclear

He was also charged with racially/religiously aggravated intentional harassment.

You can commit the 'aggravated' offence without it being said there actually was proven racism or racist intent.

(1)A person is guilty of an offence under this section if he commits—

Public Order Act 1986 (fear or provocation of violence);

(b)an offence under section 4A of that Act (intentional harassment, alarm or distress); or

(c)an offence under section 5 of that Act (harassment, alarm or distress),

which is [racially or religiously aggravated] for the purposes of this section.
 
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It's just strange how the big R word is immediately thrown in there when someone speaks badly about a religion or takes the **** out of it (well, Islam anyway). Do you really think this guy would have posted an image of Mo Salah in a suicide vest if he was Hindu instead? No, of course not. So why the hell is race being mentioned?

Because hindus haven't been blowing themselves up?
 
We will do when the police stop arresting people for using hurtful words and images on the internet.

I know little about police hierarchies but do they general not just follow the narrative set by the politician's?

I never had a problem with cracking down on derogatory talk, it can just be difficult to filter out what is blatant unnecessary mockery or degrading speech and what is a genuine expression of your circumstances.
 
I know little about police hierarchies but do they general not just follow the narrative set by the politician's?

I never had a problem with cracking down on derogatory talk, it can just be difficult to filter out what is blatant unnecessary mockery or degrading speech and what is a genuine expression of your circumstances.

But trying to police the internet is just ridiculous. They are only going to catch the ones stupid enough to post silly stuff under their own names.
 
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