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2019-05-28 | |||||
[DW] Members of a "Shariah police" vigilante group have been handed fines for donning illegal uniforms. The men had attempted to impose a "Shariah controlled zone" in the western German city of Wuppertal. A German court found seven alleged members of a self-styled "Shariah police" guilty of violating rules on wearing uniforms after a retrial in the western city of Wuppertal. The defendants, men aged between 27 and 37, face fines ranging from €300 to €1,800 ($335 to $2,015) for violating Germany's laws against wearing uniforms.
The accused patrolled the streets of Wuppertal in September 2014 dressed in orange vests bearing the words "Shariah police." They handed out leaflets declaring the area a "Shariah-controlled zone," where alcohol, music and pornography were banned under Islam's Shariah law. The men were accused of infringing uniform laws, but judges in the Wuppertal District Court acquitted them of the charges in November 2016 after they determined that they was not enough proof that they were breaking the law. However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... the Federal Court of Justice, Germany's constitutional court, overturned the acquittal and ordered a retrial in January 2018, determining that the district court had not examined the impact of the vigilantes' actions on the public. At the time of the "Shariah police" patrol, the men were led by Sven Lau,
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Posted by:trailing wife |
#1 This is justice. We humans, with our concepts of 'jurisprudence' and 'social contract' and 'Rawlsian Fairness' believe we know what justice is. We make a UN, an ICJ, set up a few tribunals, make a few old men say sorry to dead people and sign apology letters. We rest confident in that 'justice is done'. The universe has other ideas. What the British Empire did to Asia, what Germany did to the Jews, poor Russians, the Poles - the audacity of people to assume superiority over the world. All is judged eventually. I believe we can worry all we want for these people, but in God's eyes they are still under indictment. And this is what they reap. Also, it's not that this fate is suddenly thrust on them. They vote these Merkels and Mays and Trudeaus in themselves, with great fanfare. And invite the locust in. |
Posted by: Dron66046 2019-05-28 09:08 |