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The logic is perverse. Over recent years, we’ve seen religious hardliners menace those they accuse of blasphemy. The death threats clearly aren’t empty. Hatun Tash – an ex-Muslim and Christian preacher who could often be seen at Speakers’ Corner in her Charlie Hebdo t-shirt – has been stabbed and was the target of a foiled gun attack. The Batley teacher, whose name was posted online by Islamist activists and a local Muslim charity, remains in hiding almost four years on. And yet the state is effectively siding with his and Tash’s tormentors. Rather than go after those trying to terrorise and kill people for offending their religious sensibilities, police are now focussing their efforts on locking up the alleged blasphemers, in the hope this will calm the intolerant bigots down. It’s an exercise not just in censorship, but also victim-blaming.