Britain’s transformation into an Islamic state is sort of full.
The case in query pertains to a person who has been convicted of a “religiously aggravated public order offence” after he burned a Quran outdoors the Turkish consulate in London.
The Spectator journal reports:
This regulation has been created by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and District Decide John McGarva. Between them they’ve prosecuted and located a person responsible of a ‘religiously aggravated public order offence’ as a result of he burned a Quran outdoors the Turkish consulate.
The CPS mounted a prosecution conflating the non secular establishment of Islam, with Muslims as folks, and a British choose has accepted this. Islamic blasphemy codes are actually being enforced by arms of the British state, through what the Nationwide Secular Society describes as ‘a troubling repurposing of public order legal guidelines as a proxy for blasphemy legal guidelines’.
Hamit Coskun burned a Quran outdoors the Turkish consulate in February, earlier than being attacked by a person named Moussa Kadri who has since pleaded responsible to the assault. Mr Coskun was initially charged beneath the Crime and Dysfunction Act with ‘intent to trigger in opposition to the non secular establishment of Islam harassment, alarm or misery’.
On sentencing Coskun, the left-wing activist Decide John McGarva mentioned Coskun’s conduct was “provocative and taunting” and accused him of harboring a “deep-seated hatred of Islam and its followers.”
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“It’s not potential to separate your views concerning the faith to your views concerning the followers,” McGarva declared.
“Your actions in burning the Quran the place you probably did had been extremely provocative, and your actions had been accompanied by unhealthy language in some instances directed towards the faith and had been motivated a minimum of partially by hatred of followers of the faith.”
Coskun was fined £240 ($325) with a statutory surcharge of £96 ($130).
According to the BBC, Coskun denounced his conviction as “an assault on free speech and can deter others from exercising their democratic rights” and mentioned he would lodge an enchantment.
In the meantime, Conservative Social gathering chief Kemi Badenoch mentioned that such legal guidelines would set Britain on a “street to damage.”
“This case ought to go to enchantment,” she mentioned. “Freedom of perception, and freedom to not consider, are inalienable rights in Britain.”
De facto blasphemy legal guidelines will set this nation on the street to damage.
This case ought to go to enchantment. Freedom of perception, and freedom to not consider, are inalienable rights in Britain.
As I mentioned on this interview, I’ll defend these rights to my dying day. https://t.co/PScT7xLJ9n pic.twitter.com/5ek9tYwWqv
— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) June 2, 2025
