Back in February, a Turkish refugee named Hamit Coskun decided to protest Islam by burning a Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in London.
Coskun is an atheist who left Turkey in 2022 to flee government persecution.
As he stood outside the embassy, a crazed Muslim named Moussa Kadri, attacked him with a knife while shouting "I'm going to kill you."
The entire incident was captured on video.
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Months later, the judge in the case has allowed Kadri to go free.
That's right, the psycho knife-wielder who tried to kill a guy for insulting his religion is getting off scot-free with no jail time.
Kadri's defense said this:
This was a response to a very unusual situation that Mr Kadri has demonstrated regret and remorse for.
His reaction was in the heat of the moment to what he perceived was a deeply offensive act on a holy book.
Oh ... he's sorry? Let him off then!
The judge in the case reportedly suspended what would've been a 20-week prison sentence.
Hamit Coskun, meanwhile has been charged with a "religiously aggravated public order offence."
The man who was stabbed for burning a book may now be going to jail while the stabber is allowed to walk free (he should have burned a Bible - I doubt the authorities would have cared!).
Burning books as a form of protest is protected under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, ratified in 1998. However, the U.K.'s Public Order Act 1986 has vague bans on speech that cause "distress" (which is why a British man was arrested this summer for saying he loves bacon outside a mosque).
Lord Young of Action responded to the case with this comment:
The court is effectively saying that if you attack a blasphemer with a knife, he will be convicted of causing you harassment, alarm or distress and you won't have to spend a day behind bars.
I feel like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had something to say about this:
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