Has the U.K. Just Signed Its Own Death Warrant? - Colonized in Their Own Land; ‘Islamic extremism is biggest threat to UK’; We Shall Not Remain a Free Country if We Continue to Submit to Radical Islamists

Has the U.K. Just Signed Its Own Death Warrant?

Colonized in their own land

A court ruling on Monday in Britain, if it is allowed to stand, could do nothing less than change the course of that country’s history, and that of the entire world. The U.K. has taken a decisive step away from the principles of free speech that it played a dominant role in formulating and giving to the world. There is serious cause for doubt now about whether the Sceptered Isle will even survive as a free society.

Officially, Hamit Coskun was found guilty of a “religiously aggravated public order offence.” His specific crime, however, was that he publicly burned a copy of the Qur’an, the Islamic holy book. It is not a crime to burn the Qur’an or any book in Britain; Coskun wasn’t convicted of burning the book as such, but of disturbing the public order by doing so. That means that he poses a problem for British law not insofar as he burned a book, which is permitted, but because in doing so he opened the door to public disturbances, which is not permitted. In other words, Hamit Coskun was convicted of a crime because Muslims might have rioted or committed jihad terror attacks over his actions.

In convicting Coskun, the U.K. has thus enshrined the heckler’s veto as part of British law. If he had burned a Bible, no one would have cared, and there would have been no possible disturbance to the “public order.” The threat of jihad violence is now guiding the course of British law and infringing upon the freedom of speech. The British government has now compounded the prospect of some Muslims reacting violently to the burning of the Qur’an by making it clear that whether they do or not, the culprit will have to face the wrath of the British state.

For his part, Coskun charged, quite correctly, that his conviction would “deter others from exercising their democratic rights to peaceful protest and freedom of expression.” Reading that, British authorities likely nodded their heads in agreement, as that’s exactly what the conviction is designed to do. Nevertheless, Coskun, who has made it clear that he intended his burning of the Qur’an to call attention to the crimes done in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings, vowed that he would “continue to campaign against the threat of Islam.”

Coskun pointed out that “Christian blasphemy laws were repealed in this country more than 15 years ago and it cannot be right to prosecute someone for blaspheming against Islam.” He asked a question that British authorities would do well to ponder, but won’t: “Would I have been prosecuted if I’d set fire to a copy of the bible outside Westminster Abbey? I doubt it.” --->READ MORE HERE

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‘Islamic extremism is biggest threat to UK’:

In an interview with ALL ARAB NEWS, Khaled Hassan says Britain is under threat by Muslim extremists and its political leaders are afraid to do enough about it.

Just one day before Iran pummeled Israel with more than 330 drones and missiles, forcing the United Kingdom to actively thwart the attack alongside Israel and the United States, an Egyptian political risk and intelligence analyst warned that the biggest threat to Britain is Islamic extremism.

Yet, he said Western leaders hesitate to confront this threat directly or implement decisive measures against it.

“Domestic security services in the UK assess that the threat of Islamic extremism and terrorism is the main threat the UK faces,” Khaled Hassan, who was raised in Cairo and today is an Islamist terrorism researcher in the UK, told ALL ARAB NEWS (AAN). “It is not the far-left or the far-right; it is Islamism.”

Hassan, who converted to Judaism eight years ago, spoke to AAN by phone this week following a series of viral Twitter posts defending Israel in its war against Hamas and calling out the West for holding the Jewish state to unfair standards. He also celebrated the assassination of three sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in an Israeli airstrike, writing “mazal tov” to the IDF.

He told AAN that UK citizens must live in constant fear of terrorism, especially when there is any “politically provocative” event or significant gathering in the country. The threat is “always between potentially likely and highly likely,” Hassan said.

On Monday, a survey released by the Henry Jackson Society found that nearly half of British Muslims feel more sympathy with Hamas than Israel and say Jews have too much power over UK government policy. Moreover, the survey showed that only one in four British Muslims believe Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel on October 7, and less than a quarter have a negative view of Hamas.

“A large part of Britain’s Muslim community is OK with Hamas terrorism,” Hassan said. “The question is how do you differentiate between ideological support of terrorism versus someone taking a knife or a gun [and committing terrorism]? There will likely always be only a small section of Muslim society that will act on ideological extremism.”

In his assessment, the UK harbors a palpable fear of street riots, and politicians are wary of being branded racist or Islamophobic should they denounce Muslim extremism, leading to silence on the matter.

“I am as liberal as it gets,” Hassan told AAN, “but I will be called far-right for saying anything against Muslims.” --->READ MORE HERE

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