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| Spain :Persecuted for refusing to wear veil, Iman sentenced | |
| 2010-11-04 | |
| The Court of Tarragona (Catalonia) has sentenced the imam of the Islamic community of Cunit, Mohamed Benbrahim, to one year in prison for serious threats against Fatima Gahilan, a 31-year-old Moroccan woman and cultural mediator for the municipality, who refused to wear a veil and stop driving her car. A 9-month sentence, cited by Publico, was also handed out to the president of the Islamic Association of Cunit, Abderraman el Osri. A 730-euro fine was also issued to the imam's daughter, Hafssa Ben Brahim, for having repeatedly insulted and threatened the cultural mediator. The wife of the Muslim spiritual leader, Zohra Aalalouch Ahmaddach, was acquitted. The judge also issued a restraining order on the three individuals, who are banned from coming within 500 metres of Fatima Ghailan or communicating with her for the next two years, and must pay 1,500 euros in compensation for moral damages. During the trial, it was learned that the four people accused made Fatima's life impossible, constantly insulting and threatening her. The imam and his wife and daughter even collected signatures in the Muslim community against her in November two years ago, falsely accusing her of forging reports so Muslims would be denied social assistance.'
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| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 All the way at the bottom before it comes to light that it is about the money. Personally, I think that such acts should be punished by turning them around, to publicly humiliate the humiliators. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-11-04 10:34 |