by Jim Chimirie on X
One Thread Connecting Them Both: Institutional Capture.
Luke Salmons was a police community support officer with North Yorkshire Police. During a mandatory diversity training day devoted almost entirely to Islam, trainers walked up and down the room chanting Islam is a religion of peace. Officers were told it was a safe space and that there was no such thing as a bad question. Salmons asked a Muslim sergeant what he thought about Hamas terrorist attacks carried out in the name of Islam. The sergeant happily discussed it and invited him for coffee. Two colleagues later found a book about Islam in Salmons’ locker, photographed it and reported him as a risk. An inspector told him I don’t like your beliefs and suspended him for gross misconduct.
This was not the first time his Christian faith had been treated as a problem. Earlier that year a superintendent had asked him to write an article about Easter for the force intranet. An inspector intervened and told him he could make no reference to the Bible.
Salmons put it precisely. There is no way that inspector would have taken a Muslim officer into a room and said I don’t like your beliefs. North Yorkshire Police has never disputed that. A Christian officer barred from mentioning the Bible while a training day chanted Islam is a religion of peace. In the same institution. In the same year. The silence is the answer.
Sean McGinty was a presenter on BBC Radio Lancashire. On October 7th 2023 Hamas carried out the largest massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust. Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation in Britain. McGinty posted on social media that Hamas was a terrorist organisation guilty of sadistic killings. That is the word any decent person would use who has bothered to look at the evidence, he said. The BBC sacked him for gross misconduct. The BBC does not call Hamas a terrorist organisation in its own coverage despite it being proscribed in British law. A journalist was dismissed for stating a legal fact that his own employer declines to state.