Anyone outraged by Labour MP Tahir Ali calling on the Government to introduce blasphemy laws has clearly not been paying attention, says Stephen Daisley in the Spectator, for there are already blasphemy laws in this country. Here’s an excerpt.
All Ali wants to do is make the [blasphemy laws] official. When he urges Sir Keir Starmer to prohibit the desecration of the Qur’an and other Abrahamic religious texts, as he did at Prime Minister’s Questions, he will be aware that people are already punished for desecrating the Muslim holy book, including children.
In March 2023, a 14 year-old boy was suspended from school in Wakefield after a copy of the Qur’an was ‘scuffed’. So great was the indignation that his mother eventually went before the local mosque, her sinful hair covered, and pleaded for her son’s safety.
In this country, we’re tough on blasphemy and tough on the causes of blasphemy. Just ask the Batley Grammar School teacher who faced protests from Muslims in March 2021 after he included an illustration of the Prophet Mohammed in a religious studies lesson. Well, you could ask him, except he’s apparently rather fond of his head and so has been in hiding ever since.
In fact, such is our zero-tolerance approach that we even punish Muslims who say or think the wrong thing about matters theological. In June 2022, cinemas across the U.K. pulled screenings of The Lady of Heaven, a historical epic telling Islam’s story from a Shia perspective, which did not go down well with elements of Britain’s overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim population. Mosques lobbied cinemas not to show the film, crowds of Muslim men gathered outside movie theatres, and Islamic website 5Pillars published a review denouncing The Lady of Heaven as “pure, unadulterated sectarian filth” and warned of “tensions”. (I always wondered what Pauline Kael would have sounded like from behind a burqa.)
While it might be jarring to secular ears to hear a British-born Labour MP propose the re-introduction of blasphemy laws, Ali is simply representing a section of his constituents.
A poll in March found that 52% of U.K. Muslims favour “making it illegal to show a picture or cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed” at some point in the coming 20 years. Reassuringly, the same poll showed a stout 23% opposed to the implementation of sharia.
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The article fails to mention the many Britons already imprisoned including Tommy Robinson for criticising Islamism
The UK is in the process of being Islamized but none of this would be possible were it not for the many traitors, many of which are in positions of power. So it doesn’t matter if the boats stop tomorrow. The damage is done. The white British natives will be minorities in their own country, as they are in certain towns and cities already, such as London and Birmingham. The police, judiciary and politicians demonstrate on a regular basis where their loyalties lie, and it’s not with the British patriots.
Just further proof that England is no longer a Christian country and the police will always favour you know who, as this Christian preacher gets told to pipe down due to Muslims getting offended. They could’ve just gone somewhere else. Tolerance seemingly only works one way, as we know by now;
https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1862828287568875759
True.
Good job the (real) Church thrives under pressure though.
Sorts the proper believers from 5th columnists.
Well we know Starmer’s no fan of Brexit but here he is going all in, absolving himself of any responsibility when it comes to uncontrolled immigration into the UK. Yes we all remember how great you were at deporting the criminal, illegal scumbags when you were a human rights lawyer, and that’s before I get on to the Southport, mass child-killer fiasco;
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1862769781448827275
Any such law would presumably have to define when a set of printed sheets become a book, a bit like when does a group of cells become a baby. I can imagine a situation when a printer has a problem and needs to pulp thousands of copies of whichever text because they have not printed correctly. Would he be breaking the law? And if not, should I come across a torn and moth eaten copy of a holy text and decide to throw it out (in the paper and cardboard recycling obviously) would I be breaking the law? And if the answer is no in both cases, why should any protection be assigned to the anthologies of fairy tales and why wouldn’t anyone be allowed to destroy them how they choose if they are the owners of the books?
First generation immigrants should be barred from holding public office and most of this will go away.
2TK in responding only referred to islamophobia not all religions. Bit of a giveaway
Starmer needs to grow a spine and make an unequivocal statement in parliament that we reject blasphemy laws.