“Lee Rigby beheading murder trial: Judge says ‘being a soldier of Allah is not a defence” [at least not yet, anyway]

One has to wonder how long this legal precept will last when two legal systems are in direct conflict and competition in the UK — British law and Sharia law. We see time and time again that anywhere that Western law and Sharia law conflict, it is Western law that must give way.

There are scores of sharia courts in the UK, and the number is only growing. It is only a matter of time before a defendent’s claim of being a “soldier of Allah” will indeed be a permissible defense.

Any country that would ban me for opposing jihad is well on its way to sanction of warfare in the cause of Islam.

In his closing speech Mr Whittam said: “The actions of these two men, acting together as they did, crashing their car and breaking Lee Rigby’s back, and then killing him is indefensible in law in this country.”

Lee Rigby was killed on May 22 this year in a shock attack.

Mr Whittam added: “Shortly before 2.30pm in Artillery Place in Woolwich Lee Rigby was slain by Michael Adebolajo who struck his neck with a sharp instrument…and it was sawed until his head almost became decapitated.

“That emotive description is based on how the first defendant described his actions in interview.

“These comments are not excitement or exaggeration, as he accused me of. That is how he viewed his actions on that day.

“It will be for you to decide the evidence in this case and to consider whether, despite his acceptance that both he and his co-defendant Michael Adebowale are responsible for killing Lee Rigby, it is murder.”

The prosecutor claimed it was clear what the defendants’ intention was when they bought knives from Argos the day before the killing, which were later used in the attack.

The next day Adebolajo picked Adebowale up in what was ‘clearly a joint plan,’ jurors were told. The court heard Lee Rigby, 25, arrived at Woolwich Arsenal station at 2.10pm on his way back to his barracks.

He is captured on CCTV wearing a Help For Heroes hoodie crossing the road in Artillery Place eight minutes later.

The defendants’ Vauxhall Tigra is then seen to crash at a speed of 40mph into the soldier, breaking his back and leaving him helpless on the ground.

Witnesses described the defendants committing the “frenzied attack”

Rigby was then dragged into the street. His attackers, who also had a gun, waited until armed police arrived so, they say, they could be killed in an act of martyrdom.

But the prosecutor warned jurors “not to be seduced” by suicide being their sole intention.

Mr Whittam reminded the jury of eight women and four men that it was not Islam that was on trial.

“What is required, particularly in this case, is cool logic and sound common sense,” he said….

Apparently not.