The UK: A Place Where Judges Tell Muslims What Islam Means

Apparently, when Islamic clerics tell the rest of us we should table up to their peaceful recipe or die, at least one judge in the UK isn't listening.

This really shouldn't be shock at all in that the continent's most powerful and far reaching governing body has itself renamed violent Islamic jihad against non-Muslims as a "crime against Islam"--you know, that same sort of crystal clear reasoning that would state that the confessed arsonist didn't actually commit a crime against the now homeless family of four down the street, but rather committed it against well behaving pyromaniacs who, thankfully, didn't lose the roof over their heads in the conflagration.

Who is Abu Qatada? He is largely considered to be al Qaeda's most important advocate within Europe. His propaganda tapes were found in a nest of terrorists that helped carry out the 9-11 attacks. Evidence suggests he provided religious counseling to both Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui. He has been linked to terrorist cells throughout much of Europe.

Incidentally, Abu Qatada actually believes he is a Muslim, the silly man.

From the Guardian: 'His beliefs are a perversion of Islam'

Justice Collins, chairman of the special immigration appeal tribunal that heard an appeal against Qatada's detention in March 2004, said he was at the centre of terrorist activity in Britain associated with al-Qaida.

"He is a truly dangerous individual," Collins said. "We have no doubt that his beliefs are extreme and are indeed a perversion of Islam for the purposes of encouraging violence against non-Muslims and Muslims who are, or have been, supportive of Americans."

If that in and of itself doesn't rot your socks, how do you like the idea that he is being released to his home with a "strict curfew?"

In a sane world, mastermind Muslim criminals that practice perverse Islam would remain in prison forever. Fortunately for Qatada and the terrorist organization he supports, sanity apparently stops at the ocean's edge.