i agree it's sickening, the UK and US governments have the blood of perhaps a million Iraqi dead on their murderous hands, they have practically wiped off the map a previously fairly wealthy country. Now they lock up people for poetry! Anarchists a century ago were being persecuted just like muslims are today, with the capitalist media full of conspiracy theories, anarchist bombs and assasinations, etc, and if we had had a country then they would have destroyed it likewise. That's my tuppence worth. <BR><BR><BR><B><I>Volodya <Volodya@WhenGendarmeSleeps.org></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<BR>Hash: SHA1<BR><BR>This is actually ridiculous, haven't these people ever heard about "poetic licence", and poets always<BR>exaggerate what they write to make the poem stronger.<BR><BR>-
Volodya<BR><BR>http://eng.anarchopedia.org/Samina_Malik<BR><BR>- -------- Original Message --------<BR>Woman called 'lyrical terrorist' celebrated act of beheading<BR><BR><BR>Owen Bowcott<BR>Friday November 9, 2007<BR>The Guardian<BR><BR><BR>http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2208007,00.html<BR><BR>A young Heathrow worker who wrote poems about beheading non-believers yesterday became the first woman to be<BR>convicted under new anti-terror laws.<BR>Samina Malik, a 23-year-old Muslim from Southall, west London, who worked airside at a branch of WH Smith,<BR>burst into tears in the dock at the Old Bailey when the jury returned their verdict.<BR><BR>By a majority of 10 to one they found Malik, who called herself the "lyrical terrorist", guilty under the<BR>Terrorism Act 2000 of possessing records likely to be useful in terrorism.<BR><BR><BR>Article continues<BR><BR>- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR><BR>-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Poems discovered at her home included two entitled How to Behead and The Living Martyrs. Malik, the jury was<BR>told, had written on the back of a receipt from the shop: "The desire within me increases every day to go for<BR>martyrdom."<BR>Jonathan Sharp, prosecuting, said: "She is a committed Islamic extremist who supports terrorism and terrorists.<BR>She had a library of material that she had collected for terrorist purposes. That collection would be extremely<BR>useful for someone planning terrorist activity."<BR><BR>But, he said, she was "an unlikely person to be an active supporter of terrorism".<BR><BR>During her trial, Malik told the jury: "I am not a terrorist." She used the nickname "lyrical terrorist", she<BR>explained, because she thought it was "cool".<BR><BR>Judge Peter Beaumont bailed Malik under what he described as "house arrest" to be sentenced on December 6,
and<BR>ordered reports into her family background. "You have been a complete enigma to me," he told her, adding that<BR>"all sentencing options remain open".<BR><BR>When Malik's bedroom was searched last year, police found a ringbinder full of documents, include a handwritten<BR>one which read: "I always sit alone to think and ponder how it would be to unite with the Muslim ummah and to<BR>go shoot rocket-launchers, help them load their ammunition, nurse the wounded, and what the atmosphere would be<BR>like ...<BR><BR>"I wonder what it will be like to be with the Muslims when a mischief kaffir is shot dead ... how it will be<BR>when we see our Muslim brothers and sisters go forth with swords in their hands, running towards blessed death<BR>with the look of 'I love death more than life' on their shining faces." One of her poems was called How to<BR>Behead: "It's not as messy or as hard as some may think/ It's all about the flow of the wrist," it read. "No<BR>doubt that the
punk will twitch and scream/ But ignore the donkey's ass/ And continue to slice back and forth/<BR>You'll feel the knife hit the wind and food pipe/ But don't stop/ Continue with all your might."<BR><BR>Discovered on her computer were The Mujaheddin Poisoner's Handbook, Encyclopaedia Jihad, How to Win in<BR>Hand-to-Hand Combat, and How to Make Bombs.<BR><BR>Peter Clarke, head of the Metropolitan police counter-terrorism command, said: "Malik held violent extremist<BR>views which she shared with other like-minded people over the internet. Merely possessing this material is a<BR>serious criminal offence."<BR><BR><BR>[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Yahoo! Groups Links<BR><BR><*> To visit your group on the web, go to:<BR>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/<BR><BR><*> Your email settings:<BR>Individual Email | Traditional<BR><BR><*> To change settings online go to:<BR>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/join<BR>(Yahoo!
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