Islam And The West

Michael St John, a general practitioner from the United Kingdom,  is in prison serving a three year sentence. The 59 year old medic’s crime was to sexually assault one of his patients. His victim, a 28 year old hijab wearing Muslim woman, was   seven months pregnant at the time of the attack.

St. John is coming up for release after being given a 3 year jail term and is determined to return to work as a doctor. His wife is leading his cause by representing him at a General Medical Council hearing to determine his future career status:

“A DOCTOR jailed for sucking the breasts of a mum-to-be begged a tribunal not to strike him off yesterday.

Perverted GP Michael St John, 59 – also convicted of intimately groping the patient aged 28 – made the plea to continue his 30-year career in a letter from his cell….

..St John wrote of his “regret and remorse”. He sexually assaulted the Muslim woman, who was seven months pregnant, after telling her to remove her hijab at Stepney Health Centre in East London.

The tribunal heard the GP sucked her breasts “like a baby”….” [Source: The Sun]

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A court in the English town of Leicester has found Stephen Ard guilty of attacking Rehana Sidat by pulling her niqab off.

Ard escaped jail after a wrote a letter explaining how ashamed and embarrassed he was about his behaviour.

The assailant pleaded guilty to religiously aggravated assault. He was handed down a suspended jail sentence, ordered to pay £1000 compensation and carry out 150 hours of community service:

“A thug who ripped off a Muslim woman’s headscarf as she passed him in the street says he’s ‘ashamed’ of what he did.

Stephen Ard was handed a 16-week jail sentence, suspended for a year, after he admitted a charge of religiously aggravated assault.

Leicester magistrates also ordered him to pay his victim £1,000 compensation after hearing he was drunk at the time of the incident….

…Ard, 29, walked free after writing a letter of apology to the court. He said he felt ‘ashamed and embarrassed’ by his behaviour.” {Source: Daily Mail}

I wonder  how much impact the court appearance and the prospect of being jailed had on his public contrition?

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An investigation has been launched after a mosque was allegedly attacked by Israeli settlers . The incident took place in the village of Yasuf, near the town of Samarian town of Salfit:

“…. According to reports, the perpetrators set fire to a carpet and to a library in the mosque’s second floor, destroying holy books. They also sprayed abusive statements in Hebrew on the walls. Graffiti messages included “Prepare for the price tag” and “We will burn all of you.”

Settler extremists have recently attacked Palestinians and their property in response to the government’s decision to freeze settlement construction. They have dubbed the attacks the “price tag” policy.” {Source: Jerusalem Post}

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Suspected right-wing Israelis are thought to have set free to an Arab house in the village of Ain Abous.

Ain Abous is located near Nablus in the Judea and Samaria and the alleged attack took place on Saturday night:

“Police suspect that extreme-right wing activists set fire to a house and two vehicles in the West Bank village of Ain Abous, near Nablus, on Saturday night….

…”At 2 am I woke up from the noise of cars,” he said. “I went to the window to look out and saw a Subaru next to the house, near our tractors. There were two people standing next to the car.

“I began shouting at them, ‘What are you doing?’ and then they started torching everything: The storeroom, the tractor’s wheels – everything was completely burnt. When I called them, they yelled at me, ‘Get inside the house.’ What are we supposed to do now? We are 12 people in this house. I don’t know what we are going to do. We’ll have to sleep on the road.” {Source: Ynet News}

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An American bank teller is facing a three year prison sentence and a possible $25,000 fine after being charged with a hate crime.

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