Last Friday, British soldier and supporter of the English Defence League (EDL) Ryan McGee, was jailed for two years after it was revealed that he had made nail bombs filled with 181 pieces of shrapnel to maximize damage. The 20-year-old from Eccles, Greater Manchester, wrote in a journal: I vow to drag every last immigrant into the fires of hell with me. Police discovered how McGee downloaded a video of two men beneath a swastika flag, one being beheaded and the other killed by a gunshot to the head, and then encouraged people online to do the same if they hated immigrants. The court heard that McGee came from a family with far-right views, and had attended an EDL rally whilst holding a No Surrender EDL flag and donning an EDL T-shirt and jumper - all bought by his mother for his 18th birthday. Like Robert Cottage, McGee pleaded guilty under the outdated Explosives Substances Act. McGee fulfilled every physical and ideological condition to qualify as a terrorist, yet the prosecutor stated that he was not a terrorist but an immature teenager who had no intended targets. Maybe it was because the single defining attribute that McGee didnt possess to be deemed as a terrorist by the courts, was that he wasnt a Muslim. Not a single article in the British press mentioned the word terrorist in reference to McGees case. The hypocrisy and double standards of the British justice system and the media is as clear as daylight. Unlike Robert Cottage, who attempted to assassinate a British Prime Minister, and the IRA who bombed state institutional buildings, Muslims who have never attempted, let alone executed such acts, are regularly branded as terrorists and prosecuted under the Terrorism Act of 2000. Muslims = 12 years in jail Non-Muslims = 2 years in jail
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:56:47 +0000
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