User:Catstrangler101

Catstrangler101 - the "Twitter" name for Timothy Martin Burton - was created in 2009 as an alias for social media purposes. Since then, Catstrangler101 has been involved with the political party Liberty GB as a political commentator, columnist, counter-jihadist, news / investigative journalist, speaker and radio co-host with Liberty GB Radio, RFB Radio WOW! and Freedom Loving Infidels on the Radio Jihad Network. He has his own blog at http://freedomlovinginfidel.blogspot.co.uk and writes for various online publications including the New English Review, The Brenner Brief and Broadside News.

Contrary to popular rumours, Tim does not strangle cats, nor indeed does he have any animosity towards them at all. In fact he loves cats, and until recently owned a beautiful Burmese pedigree cat called Tiger. (Tiger died of feline leukemia in 2009.) The sobriquet Catstrangler was given to Tim by his mother when he was young and was being encouraged to take up violin lessons. After one memorable school term where the Burton household was filled with the day-and-night screeching of a violin bow being inexpertly scraped across frayed strings, Tim's mother cracked under the pressure and likened his playing to the sounds of a cat being strangled. The rest is history.

Catstrangler101 was recently in the public eye when on 08 April 2014 he was acquitted at Birmingham Magistrates Court - Crown vs Timothy Martin Burton - a case which came to be known as the "Birmingham Taqiyya Trial."

Mr. Burton was acquitted when the District Judge, Mr. Ian Strongman, ruled that Mr. Burton was entitled to express his opinion under Article 10 of the Human Rights Act, and even though that opinion may have been expressed in robust terms, the bar for free speech must necessarily be set very high. In his view the Prosecution had failed to meet that bar.

He also noted that it was not "harassment" on a social medium like Twitter to express an opinion in the way that it would have been if the same opinion had been delivered, in person, through his letterbox at midnight - a concept which had previously been discussed at some length by Mr Burton in his essay in the New English Review here

In addition, the juxtaposition of the words "Mendacious" "Lying" and "Muslim" did not constitute a racial slur - as alleged by the Prosecution - due to the existence of the concept of Taqiyya in Islamic doctrine, which allows Muslims to lie to non-Muslims in order to promote Islam or to prevent its denigration in the eyes of non-Muslims. The Judge specifically referred to testimony concerning Taqiyya given by Professor Hans Jansen - an expert in Islamic Studies from Leiden University in the Netherlands - during the trial.

This was a highly significant judgement which brought the concept of Taqiyya - and hence the nature of the relationship of mistrust which must necessarily exist between Muslims and non-Muslims as a result - into sharp focus. It has since been described as a "landmark judgement" in support of the counter-jihad cause.

Catstrangler101's account of the Birmingham Taqiyya Trial is here