Case dismissed against Xian hotel owners (updated)

by Monitor
MediaWatchWatch.org.uk
December 9, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/582/case-dismissed-against-xian-hotel-owners-updated

Excerpt:

A case brought against two hoteliers by an offended Muslim convert has just been dismissed by Liverpool Magistrates Court.

Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang were arrested after a complaint by a 60-year-old Muslim convert. Ericka Tazi accused them of using "threatening, abusive or insulting words" that were "religiously aggravated". Apparently this included calling Mohammed (the inventor of Islam) a warlord.

Tazi saw the opportunity to play the victim card, which in turn presented her hosts with exactly the same opportunity, and the whole thing descended into a more-persecuted-than-thou competition, with the hateful Christian Institute funding the hoteliers' defence and milking the publicity for all it was worth.

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