This Muslim student was killed by racists for defending his Christian friend. Interesting...

---

Student died 'after race taunts'




A teenager died after suffering a head injury during a racially-motivated attack in East Sussex, a jury heard.

Mohammed al-Majed, 16, died after the fracas in Hastings which started with racial taunts towards one of his friends, Lewes Crown Court was told.

George Austin, 22, of Barkworth Road, Bermondsey, south London, has denied the Qatari student's manslaughter.

Two other defendants have denied separate charges of attacking two of Mohammed's friends.

Prosecutor Camden Pratt QC, said the events started after one of the defendants, Paul Rockett, and another youth, racially-assaulted Mohammed's friend Peter Henworth, because he was black.

'Shameful events'

He said: "They picked on him because of their presumption of his race and by reason of their prejudice."

"That's what kicked off and started the incident that night; that which led to the shameful events that followed."

The court was told Mr Rockett "took a swing" at 17-year-old Mr Henworth but missed, on 22 August.

Jurors were told that during the ensuing fracas, Arab student Mr al-Majed suffered a serious head injury when he hit the pavement. He died in hospital three days later.

Mr al-Majed was studying English at a language school in Hastings and had been staying with a family in the town for about five weeks before he died.

Bottle attack

He was due to have returned home to Qatar a week later.

Mr Rockett, 21, of Ham Lane, Burwash, near Etchingham, denies racially aggravated common assault.

Another defendant, Alexander Quinn, 19, of Mountbatten Close, Hastings, denies wounding with intent, and unlawful wounding.

He is accused of attacking another of Mr al-Majed's friends, 14-year-old Mojeb Qatani, with a bottle.

Jurors were told they must consider the charges against each defendant separately.

The case continues.

Source: BBC

2 wrongs do not make a right.
this killing was terrible.
my condolances to the family of this young man.

hi abu,
I thought it was normal for one person to attempt to save another innocent persons life.
By the report , it was murder. There was no religious assiciation.
Who cares?
It is a legal process.

I thought christian and muslim was not the issue in this murder.

you bought it in.
There was not religious commentry.
The white guy may as well have been the muslim, the black guy a christian.

Quote:

that's what some clercs of islam say.
though they have been a bit restrained as of late.
so it'ld be nice if the many muslims of the world could "educate" the "True meaning" of islam.
cause they have the resources to teach them one method of islam.
and it's been taught from the koran.

so you work on that.

abu_rashid wrote on Sep 22^nd, 2009 at 11:01pm:



There is an undelying assumption in what you say and it needs clearing up.


I have never said or imagined that Mulim can do no good. I have met many warm, open and generous Muslims. And I have no doubt that these people act as Muslims, according to their understanding of Muslim tenets of hospitality and generosity.

The point for me, always, is that when Muslims do bad things they also do it very often (but not always) as muslims, as followers of Mohammed. Rioting, intimidation, cheating, assault are in this category. When they do very, very bad things, when they mass murder civilians, they always do these acts according to their understanding of islam.

While Islam is the ground from which individual generosity grows in many cases, it is also the ground from which vicious oppression and murderous insanity also grows in disturbingly large number of other cases.

Yadda,

Quote:


Based purely on assumptions I made from their names.

Quote:


"Student died after race taunts"

Could well be...

Quote:


True... they could've been Jedi Knights, or Sith even..

Quote:


We don't know that for sure.

And if he was a good practising Muslim, following "The death cult of Islam" as you put it, then shouldn't he goto hell? Please elaborate on this one Yadda.

Yadda,

Quote:


My post does not imply religion had anything to do with the murder at all. I merely pointed out that the religion of the victim, did not prevent him defending his friend (and eventually dying for him) even though he was of a different religion. That's got nothing to do with the murder at all.

Quote:


That's right... but since posting on this forum, I've adopted the idea of just assuming people are from a certain religion based on their name. And since "Peter" is one of the most Christian names... I'm making that assumption.

abu_rashid wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2009 at 10:51am:



But we do not know the religion, or the religious convictions, of the people involved in this news story.

It is not, was not, stated.i
Quote:


Hmmmmm.


God does not accept circumcision, but what is in the heart.

But you judge a persons religion, based upon their name?


Jeremiah 9:25
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
26  Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.