On 2nd June this year, Hamit Coskun, a Turkish political refugee who is clearly not a fan of Islam, was found guilty of an aggravated public order offence at Westminster Magistrates Court, after burning a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish consulate in Knightsbridge. Among other opinions, Mr Coskun had expressed the view that Islam was a religion of terror, and that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was making Turkey a base for radical Islamists. Alarmed at what he described ...
