{"id":12550,"date":"2011-04-11T17:35:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T21:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12550"},"modified":"2011-04-11T17:35:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T21:35:15","slug":"if-you-burn-a-koran-in-the-uk-you-are-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/if-you-burn-a-koran-in-the-uk-you-are-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"If you burn a Koran in the UK, you are arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A BNP candidate for next month’s Welsh assembly elections has been charged with a public order offence, after police were passed a video appearing to show him burning a copy of the Koran.<\/p>\n

Sion Owens, 41, was named as a party candidate for the South Wales West regional list last week.<\/p>\n

He is due to appear at Swansea magistrates’ court on Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let this be a lesson to anyone feeling inclined to do something unpleasant to a religious text: forget about the Koran, rip up a Bible and shove it in your knickers<\/a> \u2013 it will probably earn you taxpayer funding<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The BNP may be an odious organisation, but I can\u2019t think of a better way for the British legal establishment to give it a boost than by arresting one of its members for burning a Koran in his own garage \u2013 that is where the conflagration occurred \u2013 under the pretext of a Public Order Offence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The charge has been withdrawn for the moment because of lack of evidence, although “further proceedings will ensue”<\/a>. And if they do, it will be a sign to that very select group of rabid, head-hacking Muslim nut cases that they are on the right track and should, at the slightest pretext, keep on hacking<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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