WTF OMG

Skimming through Twitter on my ‘Berry travelling back to London yesterday, I saw the following Tweet from Nihal (Who, by the way has an awesome show on the BBC’s Asian network):

I couldn’t believe it, I may have even looked up and around me half expecting someone to know exactly what I had just read so I could exclaim my shock and anger. I was so shocked and angered that when I eventually got to a computer I had completely forgotten about it. Then I woke up this morning, once again angered by what I had read, and did a little Google’ing to find out the details. The story is as follows; 25 year old Shamso Miah of East London had popped in to the bank on his way home from the Mosque. Whilst queuing up he got into an altercation with a guy called Mohammed Furcan over who was first in the queue, Miah ended up punching Furcan once inside the bank and once outside the bank resulting in a broken jaw for Furcan. Then we come to his trial for the assault. The Judge is none other than Cherie Booth, wife of ex-PM Tony Blair. As the Tweet above says, she ended up suspending his sentence as he is a religious person who had not been in trouble before. The BBC website reports that she added “You are a religious man and you know this is not acceptable behaviour.”

In the words of Ed Lover “C’MON SON???!!!!!!” This is the most ridiculous thing ever. I can understand a suspended sentence for the fact that he had never been in trouble before (Or been caught as perhaps the case is), but adding on that it is being done because he is also a religious man? This article over on The Daily Mash sums the stupidness of the thing up pretty well, CLICK. After this verdict I am pretty sure that any fellow Athiest who stands, or has stood, before Booth will not receive a fair trial.

I’m not a religious person, I don’t believe in a higher being, but I live a life which probably encompasses some of the better elements of different religions. I don’t do things which will bring mental or physical harm upon others, I try to help people where I can, etc etc etc. And you know what, I wouldn’t break a man’s jaw over a queue in a bank, so to think that me not believing in something which has no proof of existence could affect me having a fair trial is disgusting. Truly disgusting.

PEACE