Was this prosecution a waste of time and money?

[Gromit]

"A PREACHER who slapped three children for giggling as they read the Koran in a mosque has been ordered to do unpaid community work.

Sarwar, who has no previous convictions, was found guilty after a trial last month of three counts of common assault by beating."

http://www.manchester...ced_for_slapping_boys

[jake-the-peg]

replace "children" with "women" and see how it reads

[R1Geezer]

Sounds like a bit of lightweight if you ask me, slapping? surely a good sound flogging would have been more appropriate for dissing Islam!

[ummmm]

You can't hit kids for laughing..!!

[horselady]

Yes, it does seem awful now to slap kids for giggling. How times have changed though, when I think of the way we were punished at school if we dared to laugh in a lesson. The wooden backed board rubber would hurtle across the classroom many a time!

[tamborine]

He's obviously a usless instructor if he couldn't compete with a leaf.......sweep him off.

[anotheoldgit]

////" Was this persecution a waste of time and money?"////

Gromit, If he had not been a Mosque preacher, but a Catholic Priest for example, you would not be asking this question, you would be calling for him to be de-frocked and excommunicated.

What is this, he has been ordered to do unpaid community work, does it mean that some are actually sentenced to do "PAID" community work?

[caththecrazy]

No it's dangerous to hit children round the head and ears.

What young child wouldn't laugh if a leaf got stuck to their nose?

This tells me that the so called preacher is teaching children that islam is a faith or violence and no laughter, which isn't true.

People have been brought to court for less.