Hope Obama can dodge shoes like W did!

[Max™]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle7094311.ece

SCOTLAND YARD has bowed to Islamic sensitivities and accepted that Muslims are entitled to throw shoes in ritual protest — which could have the unintended consequence of politicians or the police being hit.
News of the concession by the Metropolitan police has come to light amid a series of trials of more than 70 mostly Muslim demonstrators who were charged with violent disorder after last year’s Gaza protests outside the Israeli embassy in London.


Aquib Salim, 21, an IT student at Queen Mary, London University, who was involved in a shoe-throwing incident, is almost certain to avoid a prison sentence as a result.
Chris Holt, Salim’s solicitor, said he was likely to get a suspended sentence after he pleaded guilty to a single charge of throwing a stick at police lines.



“The court accepted that the earlier shoe-throwing incident was simply a ritual form of protest and therefore not a criminal act of violence,” Holt said.
Judge Denniss agreed that the act of shoe-throwing should not be considered in a charge of violent disorder against the student because it was “a symbolic” political gesture.
Shoes, and particularly the soles of shoes, are regarded as ritually unclean in the Islamic world. An Iraqi journalist became a folk hero for throwing a shoe at President George W Bush during a press conference in December 2008.

I always thought this was something only children and bitchy women did during hissy-fits, but it's apparently acceptable for all muslims to throw shoes?

Well fuck, sign me up!

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/ph..._boot_crop.jpg

[Lucavi]

Gotta love religion, or you burn in hell.

[Zhais]

Ahhh religion, fostering immature behavior since 100BC

And lol @ the courts for actually taking this stance...

[Dimmauk]

[Max™]

Yeah, the fact that this is legal protest makes me wonder...

Can Thorites throw hammers now?

[Lucavi]

No, can turtles throw hammers?

[Qalbert]

can christians stone adulterers?

[Max™]

http://images7.cafepress.com/product...x225_Front.jpg

[Kwijiboe]

Guys. We need to be sensitive towards Muslim Culture. Throwing shoes is just a part of their way of life. We may think it's strange and getting hit with a shoe is unpleasant, but it's actually a beautiful way to protest.

[ZarakiKujata]

whens Firas gonna get up in this bitch.

[AoE]

The little ME kids play Dodgeball with shoes instead of balls. The guy throwing his shoes at Bush was simply there to scout potential players and had big enough balls to try to scout the fucking President of the United States.

Leave it once again to American media to twist shit around for their sensationalist bullshit.

[Max™]

If you can dodge a shoe, you can dodge a wrench, so you can dodge a ball!

[Alleya]

Shooting my musket at uniformed police officers is part of my ritual protest against government's infringement on my right to practice my religious bank robberies.

brb

[Kayatani]

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h5...hrowsashoe.jpg

Who throws a shoe? Honestly...

[Moss]

glad it only took 4 posts for Random Task to be mentioned