It seems that common sense has prevailed here.
I was disgusted when i watched this on news earlier to today,where protesters waving placards with on it,common sense didnt not prevail in this case am afraid,the old woman had to stand verb abuse from these hoteliers the only reason they won the case is she claimed it took over an hour receiving 'the you are a muslim bin laden'because the witness claimed it only took 5 minutes....''there is no common sense in law its only the commoners who think they can interpret law better'',yet again another miscourage of i wasnt proud to be a christian!
(yes the above is english)
Have boycotted the daily mail and the sun so no thanks to the provided link.
also from what i hear that because the hoteliers won the case and the Muslim woman lost it will be the taxpayers who pay the legal bills running into the £1000's i think that if this was a private lawsuit then she as the loser in the case should pick up the bill or at least the people who funded her as it was not a 'queen' verses the 'hoteliers'
Tricky one this - none of us were in court, and I doubt anyone has read the transcript.
Of course you can't have people getting in other people's faces and being all shouty because they don't like what they are wearing, or because they don't like your religious beliefs (so long as those beliefs don't include condoning actions that impact on others human rights).
I think you're about right Sara - the tax payer is the loser here - this should never have gone to court really, from what I've read, it seems she was as much to blame by attempting to pursue the argument when the Hoteliers tried to walk away.
Everybody in the UK has total freedom of speech, thought, expression, etc.
With the obvious exception of straight white men.
MI5 and Special Branch are on the look out for us and GCHQ (Government Communications Head Quarters) are bugging our phones and reading our emails!
Sorry but freedom of speech no longer exists in 2010 Britain.
Times have changed and you no longer have free speech on the internet or in the real world....to think so I believe is foolish.
There's no freedom of speech? what more do you want to say? is there internet forums in china or iran where people are criticizing their government? are you likely to be killed in this country for opposing the government?
if i was to start my own website, i could write what the hell i like on there, i could write a load of conspiracy theory bullshit that wasn't true, such as the world is secretly run by lizard men from space and that the government is nothing but a puppet government or i could accuse my own government of being responsible for terrorist attacks on its own people.
if someone was to accuse you (no one in-particular by the way) in the press or on the internet of something horrible, that you had never done, would you want action taken??
