Hate-crime probe after Koran reading in Glasgow cathedral
by Mark Smith, Glasgow Evening Times:
POLICE are investigating possible hate crimes in connection with the controversy over the reading of the Koran at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow.
The provost of the cathedral, The Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth, received violent and abusive homophobic and Islamophobic messages after religious text was read out at the church.
Mr Holdsworth believes the recent referendums on independence and Europe had played a part in encouraging the kind of online abuse he had received.
The service at St Mary’s on January 6 was intended to promote inter-faith tolerance and was attended by a number of Muslims, but it attracted furious criticism online and Mr Holdsworth, who is gay, received death threats.
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