UK: ‘If you choose to live in this country, you live by its rules’
A fanatic who once paraded his baby in an ‘I love Al Qaeda’ hat was yesterday jailed for firebombing the home of the publisher of a novel about Mohammed.
Sentencing Ali Beheshti (left), 41, and two accomplices to four and a half years, Mrs Justice Rafferty told them: ‘If you choose to live in this country, you live by its rules.’
‘There is no such thing as “a la carte citizenship” and, in your case, there is no such thing as “a la carte obedience” to the law.’
Beheshti, a follower of hate cleric Abu Hamza, poured diesel through the letterbox of Martin Rynja’s £2.5million house and set it alight to ‘punish’ him for agreeing to release The Jewel of Medina, a fictional account of the Prophet’s child bride.
Beheshti achieved notoriety three years ago at a protest against Danish cartoons of Mohammed when he was photographed with his 18-month-old daughter, Farisa, whom he had dressed in a pink bonnet celebrating Al Qaeda.
Beheshti, who has a previous conviction for the attempted murder of his father, described her to reporters as the youngest member of the network.
Accomplices: Abrar Mirza, Abbas Taj and Ali Beheshti (l-r) were sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail each
Last September, with accomplices Abrar Mirza, 23, and Abbas Taj, 30, he attacked the five-storey home and office of Mr Rynja in Islington, North London
Is the Muslim world going to feel outrage at this people? Or only if one of theirs is killed, they consider is human enough to cry about it? If a Muslim wants to kill, then there is no problem?
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