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Tory councillor arrested for tweet demanding writer be "stoned to death"

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 11/11/2010 15:05

link www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-11736154

what a total twat.

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Goingspare · 11/11/2010 15:30

Leaving aside the extreme nastiness of the tweet, doesn't it amaze you every time that politicians can't predict the consequences of their actions, when it's so completely obvious to mere mortals?

StewieGriffinsMom · 11/11/2010 15:23

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 11/11/2010 15:09

more from the Guardian here.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is Muslim and regards the comment as racially motivated, as well as scary. And sexually motivated, in the sense that he wouldn't have said the same thing to a man, because it's always Muslim women who we hear about being stoned to death.

""Can someone please stone Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to death? I shan't tell Amnesty if you don't. It would be a blessing, really," he tweeted from his iPhone.

Alibhai-Brown said she regarded his comments as incitement to murder.

The journalist, who writes columns for the Evening Standard and the Independent, told the Guardian: "It's really upsetting. My teenage daughter is really upset too. It's really scared us.

"You just don't do this. I have a lot of threats on my life. It's incitement. I'm going to the police ? I want them to know that a law's been broken.""

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