{"id":12702,"date":"2018-05-30T11:58:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T10:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=12702"},"modified":"2018-05-31T16:00:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T15:00:42","slug":"tommy-robinson-contempt-in-muslim-grooming-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/tommy-robinson-contempt-in-muslim-grooming-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Robinson ‘contempt’ in Muslim grooming case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tommy Robinson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sky News reports<\/a><\/strong>, ‘The former leader of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson, has been jailed for 13 months after flouting court orders for a second time.’<\/p>\n

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It goes on, ‘The EDL founder – whose real name Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon was listed on court documents – was sentenced to 10 months for contempt of court.\u00a0 He was given a further three months for breaching the terms of a previous suspended sentence.’<\/p>\n

Mr Robinson was arrested on Friday outside Leeds Crown Court.\u00a0 Apparently, he and his cameraman Caolan Robertson were broadcasting details of a current trial live on Facebook.\u00a0 A number of mainly Muslim men stand accused of grooming under-age girls for sexual purposes.<\/p>\n

‘Swift injustice’<\/h2>\n

The trial itself is subject for some reason to blanket reporting restrictions.\u00a0 Astonishingly, Judge\u00a0Geoffrey Marson QC also placed reporting restrictions on details of Mr Robinson’s sentence.\u00a0 Only when these were lifted yesterday ((Tuesday) could the mainstream media report it.\u00a0 But the details were already all over social media and on news outlets worldwide.\u00a0 On Zerohedge, Tyler Durden described the events<\/a><\/strong> as ‘Swift Injustice’.\u00a0 \u00a0Fox News reported on the case on Friday<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 The same outlet reported later<\/a><\/strong> on political leaders across Europe calling the jailing politically motivated.\u00a0 Even Donald Trump Jr was expressing himself shocked at the UK’s apparent clampdown on freedom of expression.<\/p>\n

The judge told Mr Robinson his actions could cause the ongoing trial to be re-run, costing “hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds”.\u00a0 But apparently, to date, the trial is still proceeding.<\/p>\n

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The hour-long footage had been watched 250,000 times within hours of being posted on Facebook, the court heard.\u00a0 The judge viewed some of it, we understand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Of course Sky News, like most of the media, could not resist referring to ‘the right-wing activist, 35, of Wilstead, Bedfordshire’.\u00a0 \u00a0All ‘right-wing’ means is that Mr Robinson has taken against Islam.\u00a0 And that stems from his experience of Muslims on council estates in\u00a0Luton,<\/p>\n

Tommy Robinson on Muslim gangs<\/h2>\n

When Judy and I met Tommy Robinson in 2010 on one such estate, he expressed no ‘right-wing’ opinions.\u00a0 He was not for big money, or opposed to trades unions, or an anti-society individualist.\u00a0 Instead, he told us of drug dealing and prostitution rings all run by local Muslims.\u00a0 He and his friends had become appalled by the Muslim rackets and the racketeers.\u00a0 Moreover, they wanted to call attention to it at a time when politicians were denying any problems existed with Islam.\u00a0 This was even before the Rotherham grooming trial.<\/p>\n

At that time I even observed a rally of the English Defence League.\u00a0 It too is always described to this day as ‘right-wing’ or ‘far-right’.\u00a0 \u00a0It was not much more than a bunch of football supporters concerned about encroaching Islam and Islamification.\u00a0 They were bothered about halal meat in supermarkets, schools and prisons.\u00a0 They were worried about Islamic violence from murderous Al Qaeda.\u00a0 Islamic State was not even on the radar at this time.\u00a0 But for all their chants of ‘E – E – EDL’, the marchers were hardly from the ‘right’.\u00a0 I gained the impression a distinct majority were working-class Labour Party voters.<\/p>\n

As for the Muslims Mr Robinson spoke about, it appeared criminality sat easily with their Muslim faith.\u00a0 These Muslims went to the mosque and did their prayer.\u00a0 That alone made them ‘good Muslims.’\u00a0 Our elite will never admit it, but repentance of sin is not big in Islam.\u00a0 It is not like Christianity at all.\u00a0 It is a religion of works.\u00a0 By that we mean it is built around doing faith activities, the ‘pillars of Islam’..\u00a0 It is not framed around forgiveness and gentleness.\u00a0 There is no fruit of the Spirit in Islam.\u00a0 And no Saviour.<\/p>\n

Restrictions Political?<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

Going back to the court, I am puzzled as to why Tommy Robinson pleaded ‘guilty’.\u00a0 Such a plea removes a major plank of an appeal.\u00a0 He can only appeal the sentence, not his conviction.\u00a0 But these things happen when you are under duress and have an inexperienced duty lawyer.\u00a0 Maybe he can appeal his conviction on the grounds of being wrongly advised.<\/p>\n

Alex Jones on InfoWars is not known for restraint.\u00a0 But while interviewing Tommy’s cameraman<\/a><\/strong> Caolan Robertson (Twitter account here<\/a><\/strong>), he described Tommy Robinson as a ‘political prisoner of the West.’\u00a0 That provocative statement actually seems difficult to argue against.<\/p>\n

What tells us that charging and sentencing Tommy Robinson was a political act?\u00a0 For this writer, above all it was Judge\u00a0Geoffrey Marson QC imposing reporting restrictions on his jailing.\u00a0 The Independent newspaper and Leeds Live went back to court to challenge Judge Marson’s order.\u00a0 The Washington Post says<\/a><\/strong> this was\u00a0\u00a0‘in part by arguing that their competitors were already violating it.’<\/p>\n

Either the judge himself or another judge lifted the restrictions.\u00a0 That means they were wrong in the first place.\u00a0 And that makes their imposition a political act.<\/p>\n

In an editorial, the Indy itself said<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0 ‘Like him or loathe him, the jailing of Tommy Robinson for contempt of court was an event of legitimate press and public interest. It cannot be right, whatever else, that a British citizen can be deprived of their liberty \u201cin the dark\u201d, the very fact of their whereabouts made a secret. It feels wrong, and, in spirit at least, partly in breach of the ancient principle of habeas corpus.’<\/p>\n

Impact on the trial<\/h2>\n

So the reporting restriction on Tommy’s imprisonment was a political act.\u00a0 Now, where does that leave the restriction on reporting on the actual trial itself?<\/p>\n

The Daily Mirror tries to show in this article<\/a><\/strong> why jailing Tommy Robinson was the right thing to do.\u00a0 It says of his Facebook live stream:\u00a0 ‘The video included comments that could have caused the collapse of a long-running trial, costing hundreds of thousands of pounds.’<\/p>\n

That’s ‘could have’.\u00a0 Did the trial collapse?\u00a0 It does not appear to have done.<\/p>\n

The Mirror goes on, ‘As well as breaching this order, Robinson also made comments that impacted on the defendants’ right to a fair hearing before a jury.’<\/p>\n

Tommy of all people ought to know that being charged is not the same as being guilty.\u00a0 It really is not right to shoot footage assuming defendants’ guilt before the jury have reached a verdict.<\/p>\n

Nor is it right to\u00a0go up to defendants in the street during a trial and ask if they have their prison bag packed.\u00a0 And that is what Tommy Robinson was doing on some occasions.<\/p>\n

The jury – the weak link<\/h2>\n

The jury is considered a weak link.\u00a0 Judges tell jurers not to pay any attention to social media.\u00a0 In some cases they advise jurers not even to look at it.\u00a0 It is hard these days to avoid social media.\u00a0 But it is do-able.\u00a0 Moreover, jurers are obliged to do their job fairly.\u00a0 They are essential to the system.\u00a0 We cannot trust judges alone.<\/p>\n

The Mirror asserts, ‘His arrest and conviction were to protect our justice system – under legislation that ensure trials don’t collapse’.<\/p>\n

Fair enough, except there appears to be scant evidence that what he did actually prejudiced the trial.\u00a0 So could there be a political motive behind reporting restrictions on the Leeds case and the earlier one in Canterbury?<\/p>\n

It is a fact that those charged were predominantly Muslim.\u00a0 It is a loathing of Islam that motivated Tommy Robinson to make his broadcasts.\u00a0 And the establishment have a corresponding defensive attitude towards Islam.\u00a0 Tony Blair may have been the first politician to say ‘Islam is a religion of peace’.\u00a0 Even today our leaders do not want to upset the multi-faith applecart.\u00a0 Muslims are rising to positions of power and influence.\u00a0 Many are councillors, some are MPs.\u00a0 And of course a Muslim is now Home Secretary.\u00a0 Another is the Mayor of London.<\/p>\n

Muslim grooming gangs<\/h2>\n

The backdrop is this.\u00a0 A malaise has affected Rochdale, Rotherham, Telford, Newcastle, Oxford, and, says the Spectator<\/a><\/strong>, eleven other English towns.\u00a0 In all cases, gangs of Muslim men have been convicted of grooming young non-Muslim girls for sex.\u00a0 Adherents of the Mohammedan religion see those outside it as inferior.\u00a0 They would not do it to Muslim girls.\u00a0 They are seen as ‘haram’.\u00a0 Their whole community would be outraged.<\/p>\n

But other young women hanging around parks or city centres, perhaps involved in the care system, are easy and permitted prey.\u00a0 They are ‘halal’.\u00a0 The problem is inherent in the religion.\u00a0 It is a national scandal.\u00a0 And apart from a few brave mainstream politicians like gutsy Anne Cryer in Rochdale<\/a><\/strong>, no-one wants to admit it.\u00a0 No-one from the police, to social services, to local councillors, right up to the Prime Minister,\u00a0 will talk about it.<\/p>\n

The subsequent vacuum was always going to be filled.\u00a0 And Tommy Robinson has taken it upon himself to fill it.\u00a0 Well, someone had to.\u00a0 It seems prophets, not just angels, can come in strange guises.<\/p>\n

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