Wayne Stilwell #fundie

Wayne Stilwell #fundie bbc.co.uk

A man who threw bacon into an Edinburgh mosque has been jailed for 10 months.

Wayne Stilwell, 25, was caught on security cameras attaching the bacon to the handles of the main door at Edinburgh's Central Mosque.

He then threw the bacon inside the building, knowing Muslims regard pork as unclean.

At Edinburgh Sheriff Court earlier he pled guilty to causing a breach of the peace. His lawyer said Stilwell was sorry for his crime.

Sheriff Gordon Liddle said his actions had been "grossly offensive" and jailed him for 10 months.

Sheriff Liddle said: "A custodial sentence is inevitable."

The city's sheriff court heard that Islam prohibits its followers from consuming products made of pork - and Stilwell's actions, on 31 January 2013, offended people at the mosque.

Sentence had been deferred on Stilwell, a prisoner of HMP Edinburgh, for background reports.

On Tuesday, defence solicitor Matthew Nicholson told the court his client was sorry for his crime and accepted that he would be going to prison.

34 comments

old comment by J. James

I don't even know what to think here. On the one hand, what an utter prick. He basically assaulted these people's beliefs. Their silly, silly beliefs, but their beliefs nonetheless. But ten months in prison? Really? Okay, throwing pork products at a building isn't exactly "freedom of speech," but come on. This is not worth a prison sentence. This is worth community service, tops. A fine, maybe. Hell, even an apology. But prison? No.

But maybe I'm just too lenient. I don't think that racists and Neo-Nazis should be shut down just for believing what they do, though Lord knows how much I'd like to see Stormfront, the KKK and the GOP shuttered permanently. Until they actually harm someone or start being unfair to people, I don't think anyone has a right to legally interfere with them.

old comment by Anon-e-moose

"Wayne Stilwell, 25, was caught on security cameras attaching the bacon to the handles of the main door at Edinburgh's Central Mosque.

He then threw the bacon inside the building, knowing Muslims regard pork as unclean.

At Edinburgh Sheriff Court earlier he pled guilty to causing a breach of the peace. His lawyer said Stilwell was sorry for his crime."

" A man who threw bacon into an Edinburgh mosque has been jailed for 10 months."

He fucking well should be sorry, and his sentence should've been 10 years without parole, respectively.

What normal, decent, sane carnnivore would so much as think of wasting all that good Bacon, that could be going into good ol' British Fry-ups (with eggs, sausages, tomatoes, mushrooms, black pudding, fried bread, baked beans; ah, the Fry-up: breakfast of Gods!), and of course not forgetting that most sacred of comestibles, the ultimate tastegasm:

...the Bacon Sarnie. :9

Just the mere sight of the above proves that it is a crime worse than Treason to waste even one rasher of the Holy Meat Candy, as the Jewish - but non-Leviticus obeying - Adam Richman will tell you. Yes, that's right Wayne FAILwell; if you've watched the digital Freeview channels 'Dave' and 'Food Network UK', you'll have seen on his "Man Vs. Food", "Best Sandwich in America", "Man Vs. Food Nation" etc programmes, how he professes his love of the meat of the Sacred Swine.

...so that in itself kinda fucks up your justifications for your motives alone, eh? When a Jew eats Bacon, then...!

old comment by Mister Spak

Meanwhile christians in muslim countries are being lynched for insulting islam.

I prefer a dumptruck of pig shit in a mosque to bacon.

On the subject of the act itself;

First - Pork is not "Islamic Kryptonite". Muslims are merely forbidden to EAT it. The stupidity of fundies is amazing!

But pork is islamic kryptonite.

1). I witnessed a group of muslims (in America speaking english), when told someon put a piggy bank with the word mo-HAM-ed written on it in a mosque, do a synchronised gasp of horror.

2) A muslim, born in England, bought a bag of potato chips from a vending machine. But there was a mistake at the factory, this bag of regular chips had bacon flavor chips in it. He ate 1 chip, then over the next few months lost 20 pounds, and spent time in a mental hospital for a nervous breakdown.

Muslims make christian fundies look normal by comparison.

old comment by Mech610

I'm with Deep Search and Hasan Prishtina on this one. This wasn't just some prank you guys, this was a deliberate act to make a group of people feel unwelcome and ostracized. The last thing the Muslim community needs right now is to be treated like this. He desecrated their house of worship and no matter what you think of religion, doing what he did is disrespectful, hateful and bigoted.

I'll agree, 10 months is unreasonably harsh, but this moron should be used as an example of what will happen if you're a bigot. I think that 30 days or a fine and a reasonable amount community service ((Ideally to the congregation he harassed)) would be sufficient.