{"id":1802,"date":"2014-05-03T10:28:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T10:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2014-05-03T10:28:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T10:28:48","slug":"english-football-fans-guilty-of-ripping-quran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/english-football-fans-guilty-of-ripping-quran\/","title":{"rendered":"English football fans guilty of ripping Quran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Julie-Phillips.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1803\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Julie-Phillips.jpg\" alt=\"Julie Phillips\" width=\"228\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a>Two football fans were convicted Thursday of tearing up a copy of the Holy Quran during an English football match and throwing the pieces in the air. Julie Phillips, 50, ripped pages from the Islamic holy book and handed them out to fellow away supporters to shred during offensive chanting, Birmingham Magistrates\u2019 Court in central England heard.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips and fellow Middlesbrough fan Gemma Parkin, 18, both from the northeast English town, were found guilty of a religiously-aggravated public order offence. The incident happened during the second-tier English Championship 2-2 draw between hosts Birmingham City and visitors Middlesbrough at St Andrew\u2019s stadium on Dec 7. The two women were convicted of causing harassment, alarm or distress and fined. They had both denied knowing that the book being torn apart was the Holy Quran.<br \/>\nParkin said she had been handed the book in Birmingham city centre and did not know what it was. Phillips claimed she was simply making confetti to throw in the air. Passing sentence, Gordon Sayers said: \u201cThis was a very unpleasant offence and there was a degree of pre-planning involved.\u201d He said Parkin was \u201cwell aware\u201d of what she was doing and told Phillips: \u201cWe have seen very clear CCTV footage of you ripping up the Holy Quran and you passing pages to a small group of other supporters. \u201cWe are satisfied that you were aware of what you were distributing. \u201cThis behaviour was in a football stadium and was both abusive and insulting.\u201d Phillips was ordered to pay \u00a3730 ($1,230, 890 euros) and Parkin \u00a3620 in fines, court costs and victim surcharges. A third Middlesbrough fan was fined \u00a3235 by magistrates in March for the same offence. He admitted being among around 20 supporters who were handed pages from the Holy Quran.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/english-football-fans-guilty-of-ripping-quran\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two football fans were convicted Thursday of tearing up a copy of the Holy Quran during an English football match and throwing the pieces in the air. Julie Phillips, 50, ripped pages from the Islamic holy book and handed them out to fellow away supporters to shred during offensive chanting, Birmingham Magistrates\u2019 Court in central &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}