Britain’s transformation into an Islamic state is almost complete.
The case in question relates to a man who has been convicted of a “religiously aggravated public order offence” after he burned a Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London.
The Spectator magazine reports:
This law has been created by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and District Judge John McGarva. Between them they have prosecuted and found a man guilty of a ‘religiously aggravated public order offence’ because he burned a Quran outside the Turkish consulate.
The CPS mounted a prosecution conflating the religious institution of Islam, with Muslims as people, and a British judge has accepted this. Islamic blasphemy codes are now being enforced by arms of the British state, via what the National Secular Society describes as ‘a troubling repurposing of public order laws as a proxy for blasphemy laws’.
Hamit Coskun burned a Quran outside the Turkish consulate in February, before being attacked by a man named Moussa Kadri who has since pleaded guilty to the assault. Mr Coskun was initially charged under the Crime and Disorder Act with ‘intent to cause against the religious institution of Islam harassment, alarm or distress’.
On sentencing Coskun, the left-wing activist Judge John McGarva said 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 possible to separate your views about the religion to your views about the followers,” McGarva declared.
“Your actions in burning the Quran where you did were highly provocative, and your actions were accompanied by bad language in some cases directed toward the religion and were motivated at least in part by hatred of followers of the religion.”
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 will deter others from exercising their democratic rights” and said he would lodge an appeal.
Meanwhile, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said that such laws would set Britain on a “road to ruin.”
“This case should go to appeal,” she said. “Freedom of belief, and freedom not to believe, are inalienable rights in Britain.”
De facto blasphemy laws will set this country on the road to ruin.
This case should go to appeal. Freedom of belief, and freedom not to believe, are inalienable rights in Britain.
As I said in this interview, I’ll defend those rights to my dying day. https://t.co/PScT7xLJ9n pic.twitter.com/5ek9tYwWqv
— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) June 2, 2025
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