UK: Asian man who called policemen 'white redneck hooligans' is guilty of racism

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | July 29, 2009

[Stoat]

An Asian man who called police officers "white redneck hooligans" has been found guilty of making racist remarks.

 

 

Butt turned up at the scene on Parr Lane, Unsworth, Greater Manchester last year, shortly after his brother was taken away by police

Hassan Butt, 29, also accused officers of acting "like the Gestapo" and asked them: "Why are you treating me like a Paki?"

Butt, who once admitted having claimed he was a terrorist to make money from the media, was convicted of committing a racially aggravated public order offence by District Judge Diana Baker at Manchester Magistrates Court.

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He also asked officers who arrested and searched him: "Do you like feeling Pakis up?"

Butt, defending himself, admitted he used the words Paki and Gestapo and accepted he used the word hooligan, and possibly the word white, but denied calling the police rednecks.

Judge Baker told him: "You demonstrated towards the officers hostility based on their membership of a racial group."

Butt, of Copthorne Lane, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, was fined £200 and ordered to pay £100 costs and a victim surcharge of £15.

Judge Baker added: "I take seriously any form of racist abuse and feel the courts must strive to protect people."

Butt has previously admitted feeding untruths to journalists in order to "cash in" and having plans to write an autobiography called Leaving Al Qaida: Inside The Life And Mind of A British Jihadist.

 

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Hassan Butt Update

[SolidWood]

Butt?

[a fool in paradise]

Named Hassan Butt, his fans are Hassan Buttheads.

[a fool in paradise]

What?

[humblegunner]

An Asian man who called police officers "white redneck hooligans" has been found guilty of making racist remarks.

White Redneck Hooligan Ping.

[SIDENET]

Butt sounds like a real ass.

[MBB1984]

He doesn't look Asian to me, but I understand that Pakistanis are called Asians by the Brits.

I have mixed emotions on this. While it is delicious that the law protects against white racism as other forms of racism, I believe freedom of speech should be paramount.

[BertWheeler]

“Asian” in UK means Muslim.

[ASOC]

They got Rednecks in England? I thought it rained all the time.....

[CitizenM]

So...when are the Whites going to call for action and demand their rights? Were is the ACLU on this for us, LOL!

[Tupelo]

Hassan Butt, son of Semore and Sheza Butt of the DumButt Vally in Pakistan

[HiTech RedNeck]

What do white redneck “hooligans” have to be ashamed of? Oh right, this is Britain.

[SolidWood]

Asian in UK means Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Afghan, Bangladeshi etc.

Oriental means Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese etc.

The leftovers of colonialist parlance.

[domenad]

Confusing thing about the UK is “asian” man usually mens some guy weird beard.

[HiTech RedNeck]

But “If the sun don’t shine you get a tan from standing in the English rain.”

[Allegra]

Hassan Butt

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!

[SoftwareEngineer]

I am a big fan of Free Speech and people should be allowed to say what they want.

Having said that, if we are going to have any kind of “Racist Speech” laws then KUDOS to the Brits to applying it all around.

As much as I hate The Donald (Trump not Duck), the ONE time in my life when I admired him was when in The Apprentice (yes, yes, I watched the show...now get off my back) he FIRED a white guy for using the term “White Trash”. He said it was demeaning and racist, which it IS!!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Something similar can happen in Canada.

[EyeGuy]

Oh, oh I wanna play.

Being labeled a “redneck” by the International and Domestic Race Pigs on Parade is a badge of honor.

Let’s try this:

Butt’s Beard looks like a moth-eaten, discount-store whisk broom.

Do I win?