Not in Saudi Arabia \u2013 in Carlisle!<\/p>\n
From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n A former soldier has been sentenced to 70 days in prison for setting fire to a copy of Muslim holy book the Koran in the centre of Carlisle.<\/p>\n Andrew Ryan had previously admitted religiously aggravated harassment and theft of a Koran from a library.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ryan was exercising a form of free speech – his version of Fatwa 40378<\/a> \u2013 a commodity that is evidently in short supply in the politically correct madhouse that has become the UK.<\/p>\n As a Christian, I can\u2019t bring myself to endorse the deliberate desecration of another religion\u2019s paraphernalia – but I\u2019m finding that increasingly difficult to say with conviction.<\/p>\n A police inspector sagely noted:<\/p>\n After sentencing, Insp Paul Marshall, of Cumbria Police, said: “This incident was highly unusual for Cumbria as we have such low levels of hate crime in the county.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This leads one to speculate on whether Inspector Marshall would recognise a “hate crime<\/em>” – which surely has to involve someone being injured as opposed to merely offended – if it paraded itself in front of him and took up lodging in his helmet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not in Saudi Arabia \u2013 in Carlisle! From here: A former soldier has been sentenced to 70 days in prison for setting fire to a copy of Muslim holy book the Koran in the centre of Carlisle. Andrew Ryan had … Continue reading