The Religion of Peace in Britain (II)

• A Muslim man has been jailed for four years for stabbing his neighbour (also a Muslim) - for 'looking at his wife'.

An angry husband who stabbed a neighbour because he believed he was chasing after his wife has been jailed for four years.

Sohail Amar, 23, attacked Mohammed Asim, who lived opposite the couple in Westfield Road, Heaton, Bradford Crown Court heard today.

He was convicted by a jury last month of wounding Mr Asim with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm.

The court heard he knifed Mr Asim in the back after they had a row.

Amar’s wife, Hanna Ali, 22, who sat next to him in the dock at the sentencing hearing, was found guilty of the less serious offence of unlawful wounding.

The Honorary Recorder of Bradford, Judge Stephen Gullick, said Amar believed Mr Asim had been “making eyes at, if not harassing,” his wife.

After an argument between the men, Amar picked up the knife from his home, at 12.30am on May 10 last year, and stabbed Mr Asim just below his right shoulder.

Although the injury was not life threatening, Judge Gullick said the jury had found Amar guilty of intending to cause him really serious injury.

It was complete folly to try to settle a dispute with a knife, the judge said.

He told Ali she knew violence would be used but did not realise her husband had picked up a knife.

He sentenced her to a two-year community order with 200 hours unpaid work.

Nick Askins, Amar’s barrister, said he was an industrious family man of good character. He believed Mr Asim had been harassing his wife.

The couple had been forced to leave Bradford and now lived in Manchester.

Michael Reeves, representing Ali, said she was the mother of a child aged three. She did not know the level of violence her husband would use.

After the case, Detective Constable Ray Armstrong, of Bradford South CID, said: “We welcome this sentence and hope it acts as a deterrent to others.

“It should highlight the fact that West Yorkshire Police will not tolerate knife crime.”

• Two Muslim women have been spared jail after racially abusing white passengers on a bus in East London:

AHMED: MUSLIM WOMAN RACIALLY ABUSED WHITE PASSENGERS ON BUS

MILE END, E LONDON; CAMDEN, N LONDON. Two women who abused male passengers on a bus have been given four months to stay out of trouble or face jail. Salma Abdullahi, 20, and Yasmin Ahmed, 19, hurled insults at Stephen Power and Ionut Preda on a number 277 double decker in Mile End, east London.