+Red King Subscriber² Posted October 6, 2015 Subscriber² Share Posted October 6, 2015 A student diversity officer who came to prominence in a race row after allegedly tweeting the hashtag #killallwhitemen has been charged by police with sending a threatening communication.Bahar Mustafa, of Goldsmiths, University of London, is set to appear at Bromley magistrates court on 5 November.The 28-year-old from Edmonton, north-east London, faces two charges. One is sending a communication conveying a threatening message between 10 November 2014 and 31 May 2015. The second is for sending a grossly offensive message via a public communication network between 10 November 2014 and 31 May 2015.Mustafa was initially accused of racism for asking white men not to attend a students' union meeting intended for ethnic minority and "non-binary" women.She then became embroiled in a separate row, accused of using the hashtag #killallwhitemen on her Twitter account, which has since been deleted.A Met police spokesman said in a statement: "A woman interviewed under caution regarding a complaint of racially motivated malicious communication made on a social media network has been summonsed to court."Mustafa is neither an employee of Goldsmiths nor a student, but an employee of the independent students' union, elected by union members.Mustafa remained in her position as welfare and diversity officer after a petition for a motion of no confidence fell short of the 3% of union members required to trigger a poll.After the furore, Mustafa denied that her initial request for white men to stay away from a union meeting was racist or sexist, and said she had received rape and death threats. http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/06/london-woman-charged-over-alleged-killallwhitemen-tweet FunkyMike 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunkyMike Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Ms Mustafa has said her use of the term "white trash" on an official account had been "not professional". But she also said the use on her personal account of hashtags such as #killallwhitemen were "in-jokes and ways that many people in the queer feminist community express ourselves". It is okay everyone .. this is just how the queer feminist community express themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Man Gamer Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 It would be nice if the court brought her down to earth and rules that yes, she can indeed be racist and sexist, no matter what bits are between her legs, and no matter that the target of the attack happen to have a lack of melanin.This hole, only wight people can be racist, and only men can be sexist, nonsense needs to stop. FunkyMike and DConnell 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Red King Subscriber² Posted October 7, 2015 Author Subscriber² Share Posted October 7, 2015 This hole, only wight people can be racist, and only men can be sexist, nonsense needs to stop. Too bad idiots take feminists seriously, http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/25/u-n-womens-group-calls-for-web-censorship/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimefighter Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 (edited) You can face criminal charges for using a hashtag? WTF? Was there any actual tweets calling for violence against white people? Based on this you would have to ban bad humor on social networks. #needafaggottostartafire Sometimes I think people in the old Soviet Union had more freedoms... This is racism light at best... I could give a long list of forums online where violence against black people is advocated on a daily basis. EDITED Edited October 7, 2015 by oldtimefighter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Red King Subscriber² Posted October 7, 2015 Author Subscriber² Share Posted October 7, 2015 You can face criminal charges for using a hashtag? WTF? Was there any actual tweets calling for violence against white people? Based on this you would have to ban bad humor on social networks. #needafaggottostartafire Sometimes I think people in the old Soviet Union had more freedom... This is racism light at best... I could give a long list of forums online where violence against black people is advocated on a daily basis. Her actions in the real world reflected her beliefs online though in this case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimefighter Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 (edited) Her actions in the real world reflected her beliefs online though in this case. Can you point to other things she posted online or real life actions where she advocated violence against or killing white people? I haven't read up on this story but I am pretty sure she is speaking out against white privilege which is not the same as racism (ducks). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Red King Subscriber² Posted October 7, 2015 Author Subscriber² Share Posted October 7, 2015 Can you point to other things she posted online or real life actions where she advocated violence against or killing white people? I haven't read up on this story but I am pretty sure she is speaking out against white privilege which is not really the same as racism (ducks). "Mustafa was initially accused of racism for asking white men not to attend a students' union meeting intended for ethnic minority and "non-binary" women" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Man Gamer Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 You can face criminal charges for using a hashtag? WTF? Was there any actual tweets calling for violence against white people? Based on this you would have to ban bad humor on social networks. #needafaggottostartafire Sometimes I think people in the old Soviet Union had more freedom... This is racism light at best... I could give a long list of forums online where violence against black people is advocated on a daily basis. Here in the UK, hate speech is taken seriously, especially when such speech is suggesting violence against another. In the end of the day, its about intent, and given the extreme views they hold, and the fact that they say that it is their way of expressing them selves, the court may fine that they are expressing that they wish to kill wight men.It is possible that the court may find this to actually be inciting violence and hate speech, but it is likely that she will be sent to community service given that it was only a miss guided tweet. FunkyMike and DConnell 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimefighter Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 "Mustafa was initially accused of racism for asking white men not to attend a students' union meeting intended for ethnic minority and "non-binary" women" She has "been charged by police with sending a threatening communication" not racism which as far as I know is not a crime. My question is what are the threats? Is it just the hashtag? Sounds weak to me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Man Gamer Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 (edited) She has "been charged by police with sending a threatening communication" not racism which as far as I know is not a crime. My question is what are the threats? Is it just the hashtag? Sounds weak to me... You kind of have to look at this from the perspective of Europe. After world war two and the atrocities that followed, the governments wanted to make sure it would never happen again. So they maid it law that discrimination against race or religion was illegal, and because the way propaganda was used to turn an entire population against a group of people, they extended the law to include speech as well. This was so propaganda could not be used in a similar way to turn people on such a mass scale.This law how ever has been miss used before to stop criticism of religion, but the EU has recently nipped this in the butt excluding criticism, because it was essentially being used as a EU wide anti blasphemy law by sensitive religious groups, which was not its intent.But just saying kill all wight men would not be classed as criticism. Edited October 7, 2015 by Ad Man Gamer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Real American! Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 "Bahar Mustafa" END OF STORY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Red King Subscriber² Posted October 7, 2015 Author Subscriber² Share Posted October 7, 2015 "Bahar Mustafa" END OF STORY! No relation to Lion King Ad Man Gamer 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunkyMike Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 No relation to Lion King Is it wrong that the first thing that came to my mind when I heard of Mustafa was the star system in Star Wars: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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