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United Kingdom: Man Gets Light Sentence For Assault on Niqabi, Muslim Woman Attacked For Wearing Hijab

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via. 5Pillarz

Emiliano Sanchez, 59, confronted Shirin Akter outside a Lidl store and asked her: “Why are you wearing this? This is not the Quran and it is not allowed in this country.”

The Spaniard then pulled off her niqab and minutes later said to a Lidl worker: “Did you see that Pakii? I told her to take that thing off her head.”

At Glasgow Sheriff Court last Friday, Sanchez admitted harassing Shirin and acting in a racially aggravated manner towards her in the city last November.

Sheriff Alayne Swanson said the offence was “serious enough” for Sanchez to be jailed but instead ordered him to carry out 250 hours of unpaid work in the community.

The 32-year-old mother-of-one Shirin, said: “He should have been sent to jail.

“The fact that he wasn’t sends out the wrong message to people.

“Racism is something which shouldn’t be tolerated anywhere.

“I was left scared to go out with my six-year-old daughter and was living in fear of being attacked again.

“I was afraid every time I went out that it could happen again – it’s not the way people should have to live.

“I was very upset after the attack. I had a full face veil with just my eyes showing. It is important to me because it is my religious faith and I feel comfortable in public with it on.”

Standing up to bullies can lead to hate crimes.

5Pillarz

Maryam, 19, was confronted by a group of white girls at Piccadilly Gardens on Tuesday after expressing her disgust at the way they were treating a beggar.

As a result, she was subjected to a torrent of racial and physical abuse by the gang, which left her in tears.

The gang shouted: “Go back to your country you f*cking terrorist Paki, I will bomb your face off.”

Then they slapped her face, before pulling her hijab off and kicking her on the left side on the hips.

“What bothered me was what she said. The words hit me more than the physical attacks,” Maryam said.

“You know when you hear these things being said and you get really upset that people are saying these things, but try having someone screaming it to your face.

“I felt weak. I feel horrible from shock I started crying. My friend, from the shock stood there didn’t know what she was doing.”

The group of girls had initially hit out at a hijabi beggar, telling her to ‘go back to your own country’ and ‘if I went to your country and begged for money I would get kidnapped and killed’.

Maryam said: “Maybe it wasn’t my business because I knew I was getting myself into trouble, but then I thought if I don’t stand up against these people, who will? Will they ever learn?

“I can’t keep seeing people get verbally abused. It was a disgusting scene and I hope, I really hope no one ever goes through this.

“I did go to the police station and filled a report and a statement and there’s 0.1% chance they will find these girls but I did the right thing.

“Yes I got verbally and physically abused but if it meant to stand up for what’s right, I will go through that pain again and again and again.”

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    • syed ali

      and yet Judaism is not a race, but Anti Antisemitism is a world, Both Islamaphobia and Anti antisemitism is wrong.

    • That is a lie. You clearly know nothing about Islam. We have a long, long history of questioning and debate which continues into the present time. In the meantime, the Protestant Reformers–from whom all non-Catholic Christian churches take their theology–regularly recommended death or enslavement for heresy and apostasy. There are Protestant clerics to this day who share that view. Please educate yourself with real sources before posting on a subject about which you clearly know nothing.

      Otherwise you just proclaim your ignorance for all to see, ensuring that nopony takes you seriously; which I am guessing is the opposite of what you hope to accomplish when engaging in a dialogue.

    • Bruno Coro Niembro

      That’s why you need a minimum of training.

    • Slog

      I imagine she tried and it didn’t work as well as she hoped.

    • red

      no prison??????, islam is prison, you cannot leave or question it

    • Bruno Coro Niembro

      Working, likely.

    • Bruno Coro Niembro

      She can, if she knows where to hit.

    • Razainc_aka_BigBoss

      I think restorative justice when applicable should be used. The prison system as whole is making people into criminals.

    • Reynardine

      He still is civilly liable, and can be sued for the tort of assault.

    • Reynardine

      Pit bull is one of those generic terms that gets slopped all over with sound and fury, without signifying much.

    • Tanveer ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Khan

      Fantastic

    • The greenmantle

      Pitbulls are also banned in the UK

    • Tanveer ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Khan

      Keep your guns.

    • Yausari

      In Islam, there is no prison sentence. I do believe that it is unfair to force people to live in a box. for 3 reasons; 1 – You robbed someone’s future. 2 – the victims won’t be satisfied. 3 – tax payers pay for their food and shelter.

      For this case, I don’t think the victim is satisfied. If you ask me, that guy should pay her a fine along with the community service.

    • Mifeng86

      This is why I think self defense courses should be mandatory for women.

    • mindy1

      He should have at least gotten some time for assault.

    • Razainc_aka_BigBoss

      I agree on one hand about the punishment being too light but we really need to think twice before supporting lengthy prisons sentences we need to as Muslims to think about better alternatives to supporting a prison state

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