Belief in a sky fairy may get you a lighter sentence

From the Times Online:

Cherie Blair is to be investigated by the organisation that deals with complaints against judges after she gave a more lenient sentence to a Muslim offender because he was “religious”.

The Judicial Complaints Office is to look into a complaint by the National Secular Society that Mrs Blair, who practises law under her maiden name of Booth, suspended a six-month jail sentence passed on Shamso Miah on the ground that he was devout.

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In a nutshell Shamso

• lied to the court claiming he was acting in self defense (cctv footage showed otherwise)
• Shamso punched one  Mohammed Furcan in the face
• then when the victim followed him, he knocked him to the ground fracturing his jaw

The man’s religion should have nothing to do with it.

Or perhaps their might be a passage in the Koran where if you do wrong you cop the consequences?

Does Cherie’s line of reasoning hold true for paedophile priests I wonder?

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