Tuesday, April 12, 2011

You can't burn Korans in Britain

We read:
"A senior member of the British National Party has been arrested for allegedly burning a copy of the Koran in his garage. Sion Owens, a BNP candidate in the forthcoming Welsh Assembly elections, was charged under the Public Order Act.

He was said to have soaked the Islamic holy book in kerosene, set fire to it and watched it burn. Footage was then apparently circulated among extremists.

The alleged act, considered highly offensive to Muslims, comes after dozens died last week in riots fuelled by a similar Koran-burning incident in America.

U.S. pastor Terry Jones – who caused an outcry when he threatened to burn the holy text last year – supervised as his assistant went through with the stunt at his church in Florida late last month.

Last night, the Home Office ‘absolutely condemned’ the Koran-burning incident. A statement said: ‘It is fundamentally offensive to the values of our pluralist and tolerant society.’

South Wales Police said: ‘We always adopt an extremely robust approach to allegations of this sort and find this sort of intolerance unacceptable in our society.’

Source

I would have thought that arresting a man for burning his own property was "fundamentally offensive to the values of our pluralist and tolerant society"

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Jon's statement in the end of the article captures exactly the irony which seems to escape those who are "outraged" by the book burning. By arresting a man for burning a book in his own garage,they are demonstrating 'intolerance unacceptable in our society.’

Anonymous said...

The muslims have contradicted their own religion which says there should be no worship or reverence of symbols, not even an image of their prophet (hence all the trouble with cartoons and toys called Mohammed) - yet they treat anybody's mass-produced copy of the Koran as a holy relic in itself.

Anonymous said...

The left hate intolerants. They will not tolerate it. So given they are completely intoleratnt of people that are intolerant just proves they hate themselves!

Anonymous said...

I wonder what would happen if some Brit publicly deleted a copy of the Koran off his Kindle?

Anonymous said...

How about each page rubbed in bacon grease ?

Anonymous said...

The Limeys have been pussy-whipped by the Liberal Political Correct, Muslim apologists.

Heads will roll!

sig said...

In a show of solidarity, I just downloaded a copy of the Koran and then deleted it.

Anonymous said...

Wow! do some folks still say "Limeys"? Isn't that very WWII or earlier? I guess that does apply to some folks here.