A British Muslim has been found guilty of soliciting murder during a London rally against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad.
Umran Javed 27, of Birmingham, was also convicted of stirring up racial hatred by a jury at the Old Bailey.
Javed told a crowd of hundreds at the February 2006 protest: "Bomb, bomb Denmark, bomb, bomb USA."
He had claimed the chants against the two countries were "just slogans" and that he regretted saying them.
Remanding him in custody, Judge Brian Barker said he would not pass sentence until several other trials relating to the protest had concluded - expected to be in April.
The maximum penalty for soliciting murder is life in prison.
Even I'll admit that life in prison seems a little extreme, and I think there is no way he will get that penalty. Generally speaking, I am pleased to see a Western country pushing back. Lord knows I found the whole cartoon thing insane.
One is very welcome to organize a protest, march, chant slogans, all with the intent to give the message "We don't like what you did/are doing! Stop now! Show us a little respect! etc."
The message "We will kill you Danish bastards!" uh..not so much.
I wonder what kind of props you get in prison for getting a life sentence as a "Cartoons Protester"? You would probably have to be everyone's bitch, right?
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