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Britain
Six arrested in Gateshead over 'Koran burning'
2010-09-23
Snip, duplicate, but I'm leaving the YouTube link.
In a video still accessible on YouTube, six young men in hooded tops or wearing scarves over their faces can be seen pouring petrol on a book and setting it alight, before burning another.
Posted by:tipper

#5  Interesting that two MSM newspapers have contradictory statements regarding the Police motives for the arrests.
Daily Mail: Police confirmed the arrests were in relation to burning the book, not for making, distributing or watching the video.
El Guardinista:The six men were arrested on suspicion of stirring racial hatred, police said, which is outlawed under the 1986 public order act. They were not arrested for the actual attack on, and burning of, the Qur'an, but in connection with the posting of the video.

Section 21 of the 1986 act reads: "A person who distributes, or shows or plays, a recording of visual images or sounds which are threatening, abusive or insulting is guilty of an offence if he intends thereby to stir up racial hatred, or Â… racial hatred is likely to be stirred up."
Posted by: tipper   2010-09-23 19:57  

#4  Takes a lot for me to agree with NWA, but here goes.

Fuck The Police.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2010-09-23 12:04  

#3  would they arrest a Muslim doing it a as provocation or to protest radicals using the Koran to jstify mayhem?
Posted by: Jack Salami   2010-09-23 11:31  

#2  I just love the cowardice.
Posted by: JFM   2010-09-23 10:59  

#1  In other news Iranian officials burned hundreds of confiscated Bibles just after the ayatollah pronounced a fatwa against the Koran burners. I just love the hypocrisy.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2010-09-23 10:34  

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