From here:
A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of inciting religious hatred after allegedly burning an English language version of the Koran.
The 15-year-old, who lives in the West Midlands, allegedly posted the video, filmed two weeks ago on her school premises, on Facebook.
The video was reported to the school and subsequently removed, police said.
A 14-year-old boy was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of making threats. Both have been released on police bail.
It is thought the girl, who lives in the Sandwell Council area, was allegedly filmed setting the booklet alight while other pupils watched.
Two Facebook profiles have also been removed from the site, police added.
It is understood that the group who published that version of the Koran have since been to the school to talk to pupils.
This is politically correct idiocy in so many ways.
While burning a Koran may be hazardous to the health of the person doing the burning – just as playing chicken with an oncoming locomotive is – it is an act that will cause offense, not incite “religious hatred”. In fact, if religious hatred is anywhere in evidence in this situation, it is not because it’s been conjured out of nothing by a spot of thoughtless inciting. The predictable – and routine at this point – reaction to a Koran burning is an existing hatred exposed, not incited.
So the teenager was arrested for offending people. Had she offended Christians by defacing a Bible, she would not have been arrested; no one would have cared. She was arrested because she offended Muslims.
Perhaps she should be applauded for performing a public service: the extremist Muslims in the UK whose hatred she manages to focus so adroitly will be rumbled and could be arrested for real, tangible, dangerous and unencited religious hatred.
“Had she offended Christians by defacing a Bible, she would not have been arrested …” Had she been slightly careful enough to make it into a public act, she could have called it “art”, and she would definitely have got a grant from the Arts Council of England (public money, that is, for so-called art events) – and if you think this could never happen, well, maybe today (government cash cuts), but I bet in the recent past just such things happened; a little Googling would reveal it, sure-as-sure.