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It shows in what strange times we live that it is the chairman of Reform, of all parties, who resigns over the question of ...
My name is Hamit Coskun, and I’ve just been convicted of a religiously aggravated public order offense. My “crime”? Burning a ...
Let's just get one thing straight, shall we? Rabble-rouser, troublemaker, and all-round pain in the backside asylum seeker ...
The Koran-burning conviction is an inevitable outcome of granting special dispensation to every ethno-religious group.
A bill to increase protections for the right to criticise religion is set to come before Parliament next week. Nick Timothy, ...
On February 13th Mr Coskun had stood outside the Turkish consulate in London, holding a burning Koran aloft while shouting ...
My name is Hamit Coskun and I’ve just been convicted of a religiously aggravated public order offence. My ‘crime’? Burning a ...
Britain without blasphemy laws is a surprisingly recent development. Blasphemy was abolished as a common law offence in ...
On Monday, Turkish-born Hamit Coskun was fined £240 for a religiously aggravated public order offence. His crime: burning a Quran in front of London’s Turkish consulate, while shouting “Fuck Islam,” ...
Either you want diversity or you don't - and metropolitan lefties are unlikely to admit the latter any time soon.
Coskun’s behavior was obnoxious, but not illegal: Britain abolished its blasphemy laws in 2008. His case shows that they are ...
​While far-sighted writers and commentators like the late Christopher Hitchens and Martin Amis grasped the problems with ...