An airport worker who wrote poems about beheadings is the first woman to be found guilty under new terror laws.
She has been spared prison, sure she wrote about jihad and the 23-year-old Muslim wrote of her desire to become a martyr and listed her favourite videos as the "beheading ones".
Bad taste to be fair, but possession of crap poetry is not really enough to bang someone up.
LONDON (AP) - A woman who called herself the "Lyrical Terrorist'' was given a suspended nine-month jail sentence Thursday for possessing records likely to be useful for terrorism.
Samina Malik, 23, who worked at a news stand at Heathrow Airport, had denied the charge and said she called herself the "Lyrical Terrorist'' only because she thought it was a cool name.
Malik wrote poems including "How to Behead'' and "The Living Martyrs'' and had a collection of documents useful to terrorists, prosecutors said.
Judge Peter Beaumont said that if Malik had been convicted of the more serious charge of possessing an article for terrorist purposes, she would have faced a jail term.
The jury acquitted her on that charge.
"In my judgment, your offense is on the margins of what this crime concerns,'' Beaumont said.
Malik's sentence was suspended for 18 months, during which time she must do unpaid work.-AP
**Lets just hope that her unpaid work is not poetry classes.
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I think it's much better to string people like her in the public square, name and shame sort of thing. The problem is that too many Muslims are making the leap from wannabe terrorist to actual terrorist. Hopefully she learns her lesson after those 18 months of unpaid work.
What sentence should Sir John Betjeman have been given for Slough? Perhaps we can seek a posthumous conviction for his incitement to terrorism... unless this is simply about the offensiveness of the writing - in which case I imagine Will Self and Irvine Welsh will be looking for good lawyers
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!
Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.
I agree she shouldn't have been jailed. In fact, I think it's a travesty that there is such a crime as "possessing records likely to be useful for terrorism". We rightly despise many Islamic states for restricting freedom of speech, whilst at the time convicting people for writing poetry and watching videos. A whole variety of harmless things that ordinary, peaceful citizens enjoy are now illegal because of this legislation, and not a single life will be saved as a result.
Funny cartoon too :P
On this one I think she should not have been jailed as she has been showed to be a thicko who writes crap poetry and that is bad enough in of itself.
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