Suicide dress-up boy says sorry

Omar Khayam, the former smack dealer turned cartoon protester who committed a fancy-dress faux pas at the Danish embassy, has said he is sorry, and hopes that will be the end of the matter.

But the police are still investigating him and a prosecution may yet follow. Didn’t know there was a law against making a twat of yourself in public.

However, there is a law against incitement to murder, which some of his fellow demonstrators broke. They should get the book thrown at them.

UPDATE: Omar is back in jail for breaching his parole.


6 Responses to “Suicide dress-up boy says sorry”

  1. martyn says:

    I see mr fancy dress suicide bomber is out from jail on bail for dealing in class A drugs. Hypocrite!

  2. G. Tingey says:

    He’s a religious believer – of course he’s a hypocrite.

    Deals in smack and religion … and a blackmailer…..

  3. Andy A says:

    Omar Khayyam may well have said sorry, but the moving figer writes, and having writ moves on. There’s no cancelling out one itty bit of it. (Apologies to Edward Fitzgerald.)

  4. Anne Arky says:

    Follow up article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4687996.stm

    The guy really doesn’t get it though – he says:

    “Just because we have the right of free speech and a free media, it does not mean we may say and do as we please and not take into account the effect it will have on others.”

    Sure, we take it into account, but that doesn’t mean we necessarily silence ourselves if it will offend others – the right to free speech (or free expression) guarantees your right to offend others. It also guarantees their right to view you as a vile piece of shit, and to express their disgust using their right to free expression too.

    It’s a recipe for healthy dialogue, as long as both sides obey the rules, and don’t start threatening to kill those they disagree with.

    We have a right to be offensive, if we choose to be. Others have the right to criticise and wholeheartedly condemn us and everything we stand for, if they disagree. What they do not have a right to do is force us to be silent (or threaten us with physical violence or death), if our views offend them.

    Should I not be able to say that your religion (and all religion) is a big steaming pile of turd? I’m sorry if I upset you by saying that, but it’s my *OPINION* on the matter. By all means call me whatever you like, say you hate atheists, tell me I’m going to hell… whatever, I don’t care because I don’t believe in that stuff anyway, and I’m certainly not fussed what you think of me. Do you see how it works yet?

    So yes, you have a right to be an offensive twat, Mr. Khayam, and we’ll call you that. But you won’t see all the families affected by Islamic terrorism getting together in a violent mob to burn the flags of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Indonesia (and I daresay China and Japan too… well, they’re nearby, right?), or torching any mosques or embassies, or in fact doing anything other than calling you an insensitive bastard.

    Because that’s what grown ups do when other grown ups offend them.

    By the way, what kind of half-assed Muslim are you if you deal hard drugs? Isn’t that about as harram as you can possibly get? There’s one word for twats like you: hypocrite!!

    I know for a fact that drug dealers are still publically beheaded in Saudi Arabia. Under strict Islamic law (if that’s what you want), you’d be executed, not given a few years in the slammer and let out early for good behaviour.

    Luckily, being a hypocrite isn’t a crime punishable by death in this country, or indeed a crime of any sort in the eyes of the law – it just makes you a bit of a loser as far as almost everyone around you is concerned, that’s all.

    Still, in a free country, you are free to be a complete loser if you choose.

  5. skp says:

    Excellent points Anne Arky, this idiot would have been beheaded if he was in Saudi for dealing in drugs. Savages. The cartoons appeared in a Danish Newspaper and is not something the Danish Govt. did to offend muslims. These protests remind me of George Bush’s disproportionate response to Iraq! These protestors should be booked for inciting to murder and Omar thrown back in jail.

  6. Andy A says:

    Bit of a coincidence, and nothing to do with the issues at stake, but I mention Edward Fitzgerald (translator of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) in an earlier comment on this strand concerning the bomber dress-up chappie, and it turns out that Edward Fitzgerald is Abu Hamza’s counsel in court today (I assume not the same one, though). Funny thing, life. Synchronicity, Jung, scarab beetles …