Flick ??https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/burning-a-quran-shouldnt-be-a-crime/
Reading about Saturday’s arrest, I found myself wondering what century this is. The man allegedly live-streamed himself burning a Quran ‘page by page’. He executed his supposed sacrilege next to the Glade of Light memorial, which commemorates the victims of the Islamist suicide bombing at the Manchester Arena in 2017. Call me a free-speech fanatic, but is there really anything wrong with him doing that?
Sadly, Manchester’s cops appear to take a different view. Scores of them swarmed the man, handcuffed him, and took him to the cells. He was interrogated over his fiery impiety. Are we free to say ‘contemptuous, reviling, scurrilous and ludicrous’ things about religion, or are we not?
The man was arrested on suspicion of a ‘racially aggravated public order offence’. That’s a lot of words to say ‘blasphemy’.
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