ALARMING RULING: Man Convicted for Burning Qur’an During London Protest

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The Islamic population is growing in London. In the 2021 census, there were over 1.3 million muslims in London, England, making up 15% of the city’s population.  Now one man has just found out if you burn a Qur’an, you’re going to be in big trouble.

From Breitbart: Britain’s liberal-leaning judiciary has effectively created new blasphemy laws, free speech campaigners argued, after a man was convicted of a crime for setting fire to a Qur’an in London earlier this year.

Hamit Coskun, 50, a Turkish-born Armenian-Kurdish atheist who migrated to Britain, was convicted on Monday of a “religiously aggravated public order offence” over a February protest in which he set fire to the Qur’an outside the Turkish consulate in London.

Coskun, who was protesting the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara, claiming that it promoted radical Islam and sought to institute a Sharia system in the NATO country, exclaimed “fuck Islam”, “Islam is religion of terrorism” and the “Quran is burning” as he set the text on fire, the Times of London reported.

As Coskun was burning the Qur’an, another man, identified as Moussa Kadri, came along and attacked him with a large knife.

After he was arrested and hauled before a judge for burning the Qur’an, Coskun noted that his protest should have been protected under free expression.

However, District Judge John McGarva slapped him with a fine of £240 ($325) and a surcharge of £96 ($130) and declared, “After considering the evidence, I find you have a deep-seated hatred of Islam and its followers. That’s based on your experiences in Turkey and the experiences of your family. It’s not possible to separate your views about the religion to your views about the followers.”

“I do accept that the choice of location was in part that you wanted to protest what you see as the Islamification of Turkey. But you were also motivated by the hatred of Muslims and knew some would be at the location,” the judge added.

Following the ruling, Coskun pointed out, Coskun noted: “Christian blasphemy laws were repealed in this country more than 15 years ago, and it cannot be right to prosecute someone for blaspheming against Islam. Would I have been prosecuted if I’d set fire to a copy of the bible outside Westminster Abbey? I doubt it.”

Coskun vowed that he will continue to “campaign against the threat of Islam.”

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