Was just a £4,000 fine appropiate enough in the circumstances?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9698967/Muslim-radio-station-fined-for-saying-gay-people-should-be-tortured.html

[baza]

put another zero in the figure and insist the lady involved is sent on an equality and sexual awareness course

[ronnietoon]

no people are given prison sentences for racial/religious words face to face,

the population of leeds is 800,000 and the station could possibly be heard by millions.

[pdq1]

Just another instance of Muslims trying to supersede the laws of the country. What next...they'll be asking for Shariah Law to be recognized if we're not careful. They should go to Uganda if they want draconian laws like these.

[boxtops]

So the radio station's fined, not the individual?

[ronnietoon]

mistake put a no, at the start of my post a rid the word possibly

[mushroom25]

//What next...they'll be asking for Shariah Law......//

sharia law is already here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16522447

[friedgreentomato]

Do we have any examples of where a white christian person has said something similar that we can compare it too?

[DTCwordfan]

"Yer nae stayin' in my hotel"

Marazion hotel to a gay couple

£3600 plus costs awarded, so close........

[ummmm]

Is that 3,600 or 36,000?

[DTCwordfan]

three thousand six hundred pounds (£1800 each) from the Christian owners of the hotel (plus costs). They had asked for £5000.

[ummmm]

I wasn't sure if you'd missed a zero.

Can that case be compared though?

[DTCwordfan]

well it was an insult from a Christian to a gay couple....ok it wasn't broadcast directly on the airways unlike AOG's example.....however it was in a secondary way, with all the publicity.

I am not going into the rights or wrongs of the case, nor the fact that the Bshop of Truro stayed very mute on this case in his Diocese and one would have expected to have heard more from him. In short, the Christian hotel owners were found guilty though.....and the number happens to be in the ball-park to AOG's - it does answer in part fgt's query about Christians making homophobic remarks........

[ummmm]

I agree, It's just the call for torture that makes one seem worse than the other.

[DTCwordfan]

Personally I think the radio station got off lightly......

[ummmm]

Very!!

[Kromovaracun]

I used to run a confidential student listening service on my campus at university. I remember more than one occasion where lesbian, gay and bisexual students from Islamic backgrounds would call us in terror about what would happen if their families found out about them. One girl was being threatened with corrective rape by the male members of her family. So far as I'm aware, this kind of thing is really not as uncommon as we'd like to think.

One crackpot on a radio station doesn't worry me (or interest me) particularly. But I think as a society we may need to accept the possibility that there is a conflict between the "right" of large numbers of Muslims to raise their families as they wish, and the right of people to practice consensual love as they please.

[emmie]

it's what i have never understood, some who come out in support of Muslims, those who think they get a bad press, a bashing in some quarters, yet seem to close their eyes, ears to this sort of behaviour, talk, and no i don't think it's an isolated incident, nor do i think it will be the last. The incendiary language should have seen the presenter get slapped with a custodial sentence, or a massive fine. If two Christians didn't want gays in their B&B because it goes against their beliefs and get a whopping fine, then not sure a 4 grand fine is adequate for this sort of vile language, torture and so forth, how are we ever going to trust one another when you have people like this spouting such garbage.

[joeluke]

If the boot was on the other foot and someone on a Christian radio station had said muslims should be tortured the fine wouldn't have been a measly 4k

[sp1814]

joeluke

Isn't that analogy wrong?

Surely we should look at what happens to Christian gay hate preachers.

They get let off completely:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099414/Christian-street-preacher-allegedly-told-gay-couple-burn-hell-High-Street-rant-cleared-wrongdoing.html

Why would that be?