Muslim Cleric Jailed for Inciting Murder
From Times Wire Reports
A Muslim cleric who urged his followers to kill Hindus, Jews and Americans was sentenced to seven years in prison for inciting others to commit murder, and two years for stirring up racial hatred. Judge Peter Beaumont told Abdullah Faisal, a Jamaican native, that he was issuing consecutive rather than concurrent sentences to emphasize “abhorrence of the views you expressed.”
The charge of soliciting murder against unknown victims was the first such prosecution in more than a century under an 1861 law.
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