London – Muslim-British Businessman Says Weed Caused Anti-Semitic Rant On Plane

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    FILE - An easyJet Airbus A319-100 plane taxis at Lisbon's airport, Portugal April 24, 2018. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante London – A Muslim-British businessman was sentenced to 100 hours of community service for an anti-Semitic rant on an airplane last year.

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    Shamraize Bashir, 34, a businessman from Bradford, in northern England, blamed his anti-Semitic comments made in June last year on smoking cannabis during Ramdan, the British newspaper the Daily Mail reported on Monday. He was also sentenced to receive treatment for his cannabis use.

    “You know the really fat Jewish women yeah? Their job is to let their husbands f*** them and make babies for them,” Bashir said loudly while standing with friends in the back of an EasyJet flight from Tel Aviv to the United Kingdom last June. He continued to swear after being asked to stop his rant.

    One woman on the flight began crying over the outburst, according to the newspaper.

    Bashir was arrested when the plane landed in Manchester.

    He told the court on Monday that his rant “was out of character,” and blamed it on his use of cannabis prior to the flight and during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which requires daily fasting.

    The prosecutor told the court that the tirade against Jews lasted up to five minutes and that there were a lot of Jewish people on the flight, according to the Daily Mail.

    Bashir’s attorney told the court that his client “had been to Tel Aviv and soaked up the culture, and had also sat and spoke to a Jewish lady for an hour – how could he be a racist?” He added: “No one on the flight was put in any danger and there were no arguments as such, there was no escalation and nothing further happened.”

    The judge called the incident “particularly inappropriate” and a “very serious matter.”


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    Cricket
    Cricket
    5 years ago

    Just call Rabbi Shmuly Boteach- he’ll squeeze him in for an interview right after Roseanne Barr-explaining why racist comments aren’t racist and how moments of exposure don’t reflect true colors.

    5 years ago

    Fake news . It’s wasn’t because of the weed . It was because of Islam . They all hate us . They just cover it over . And when they smoke weed it comes out .

    5 years ago

    “No one on the flight was put in any danger”

    Imagine if the abuse had started a riot on a plane in mid-air. That Jews showed self-control does not in any way mean that there was no danger incited by the abuser.
    Incitement by itrs nature is de facto danger.

    Dr_Obvious
    Dr_Obvious
    5 years ago

    If marijuana somehow let his anti-Semitism out, he was an anti-Semite deep down all along. Going to Tel Aviv and talking to a Jewish lady don’t mean a thing.

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    5 years ago

    I hope he is never allowed to fly again.

    5 years ago

    In his obnoxious rant he was clearly referring to Hareidi women ‘controlled’ by oppressive rabbis into having more children then any secular woman (such as the Jewish lady he spoke to for one hour) would want or be able to properly care for. We may not like it, but this view is widely held not only by secular Israelis (from whom this man is likely to have ‘picked up’ his views) but by liberals and feminists everywhere including the United States .

    clear-thinker
    clear-thinker
    5 years ago

    Aha. I now understand NK better.