Man attacked over wife's veil comment

Reuters ^ | 25 December 2006 | Michale Holden

[DogByte6RER]

Man attacked over wife's veil comment

By Michael Holden

LONDON (Reuters) - A man,whose wife made a passing comment about a Muslim woman's full face veil, suffered a broken nose and lost his front teeth after being attacked and headbutted by the woman's partner, police said on Sunday.

The victim, a 46-year-old white man, was walking through Regent's Park with his wife, son and daughter when they passed another family, a Muslim man and his wife who was pushing a baby in a pushchair.

"The victim's wife made a comment directed to her husband that she thought it must be difficult for the woman wearing the veil to see out of it as it covered her face," a police spokesman said.

"The suspect began shouting and returned approximately 10 minutes later on his own and repeatedly punched and headbutted the victim."

The man was taken to hospital, suffering from facial injuries including a broken nose and a black eye, but was discharged later in the day.

The police spokesman said the suspect was about 35-years-old and of Middle Eastern appearance and that they were treating the incident as a racially-motivated assault.

The attack occurred in mid-November but police were only alerted to the incident last week.

[DogByte6RER]

You have to wonder...has "Londoninstan" gone so far PC and multicult that the assault victim's wife will be charged instead with a hate crime? (For you know, mentioning the muslim woman's veil to her husband...)

[DogByte6RER]

Veiled muslim women practicing their "religion of peace"

[Shimmer128]

Her companion. Not her husband??? Shouldn't she be raped or stoned for that????!!!

/sarc

[Canard]

"The attack occurred in mid-November but police were only alerted to the incident last week."

Strange.

[G-dzilla]

paging MadIvan...

[FlingWingFlyer]

When you are asked, "Does this veil make me look fat?", keep your mouth shut.

[null and void]

We really need to start refering to any woman(?, one never is never sure it's not a male suicide bomber) in a Burkha as "a pig in a poke"...

[llevrok]

When you are asked, "Does this veil make me look fat?", keep your mouth shut.

Not a thinly veiled comment, no doubt.

[Doogle]

...that she thought it must be difficult for the woman wearing the veil to see out of it as it covered her face," a police spokesman said.

..guess he really would've got pi**ed at me for saying.."if I had a girl that looked like that, I'd cover it too"

Doogle

[I see my hands]

To: DogByte6RER

Did they get a description of the Muslim woman?

[GSlob]

Ferdinand & Isabella, Spain, 1492

[FormerLib]

Had it not been for NATO, the jihadists would not have additional bases of operation in Europe via Bosnia and Kosovo.

[Ken522]

Probably something along the lines of "Well, she had this big sack on her so it was hard to tell what she actually looked like."

[Dallas59]

This guy must be one of the very, very few radical muzzies that give Islam a bad name.../s

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

What is a Middle Eastern man doing in the UK ? Isn't the Middle East for Middle Eastern people ?

[operation clinton cleanup]

Talk about a short fuse!

[D1X1E]

When I read the statement "racially-motivated assault" I wondered too if the man who actually committed the assault would be charged or the wife who made the veil remark.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

While one regrets the individuals injury if such instances wake up the Westerner then they are for the best.

[Shimmer128]

You'd better watch it or they'll come beat you up!!!

[operation clinton cleanup]

Or worse!