Muslim Guilty for Role At Protest of Cartoons
Sunday, January 7, 2007; Page A15
LONDON -- A British Muslim who led a crowd in chants of "Bomb, bomb Denmark, bomb, bomb USA" at protests last year of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad has been found guilty of incitement to murder, officials reported Saturday.
Umran Javed, 27, was a leader of a Feb. 3 rally held outside the Danish Embassy in London, prosecutor David Perry said. Javed, who faces a jail sentence, said he had been caught up in the moment. "They were just slogans, sound bites," he testified. British television had broadcast images of the protesters carrying signs with slogans such as "Europe, your 9/11 will come" and "Behead the one who insults the prophet."
The protests followed the publication, in Danish and other European newspapers, of cartoons that depicted the prophet wearing a bomb-shaped turban or clutching a dagger.
Muslim Guilty for Role At Protest of Cartoons
Sunday, January 7, 2007; Page A15
LONDON -- A British Muslim who led a crowd in chants of "Bomb, bomb Denmark, bomb, bomb USA" at protests last year of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad has been found guilty of incitement to murder, officials reported Saturday.
Umran Javed, 27, was a leader of a Feb. 3 rally held outside the Danish Embassy in London, prosecutor David Perry said. Javed, who faces a jail sentence, said he had been caught up in the moment. "They were just slogans, sound bites," he testified. British television had broadcast images of the protesters carrying signs with slogans such as "Europe, your 9/11 will come" and "Behead the one who insults the prophet."
The protests followed the publication, in Danish and other European newspapers, of cartoons that depicted the prophet wearing a bomb-shaped turban or clutching a dagger.
Muslim Guilty for Role At Protest of Cartoons
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