Backdoor Sharia Law
by Frank Haviland, The New Conservative:
England has not boasted blasphemy laws since their abolition in 2008. The closest I’ve ever come to encountering them was way back in the 1990’s as a public school sprog, when a classmate decided to adorn his Bible with swastikas in R.E. class, ‘because he was bored’. He received a double-detention for his trouble – 90% of which I am sure stemmed from his inveterate homework-dodging, rather than his artwork. Being a mere Bible however, that was the end of the matter. Had it been a Koran, I suspect the situation could have morphed into something unholy – and thanks to the farcical events unfolding in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, we now know that to be true.
Here is a brief summary of where we are: last Wednesday, four Year 10 pupils were suspended from Kettlethorpe High School in Wakefield, for damaging a copy of the Koran. The book was brought to school by one of the boys as a forfeit for losing a game of Call of Duty – it is noteworthy that the boy in question also happens to be autistic. The Koran was almost imperceptibly damaged, suffering a minor tear to the cover, and a smudge on one of the inside pages. While it would be naive to assume there were no high jinks involved, the book’s almost pristine condition suggests they were short-lived.
The school concluded there was no ‘malicious intent’ in the boys’ actions, but headteacher Tudor Griffiths, keen to scotch rumours circulating that the book had been kicked around the school, spat on and set on fire, agreed to attend a meeting at the local mosque organised by councillor Akef Akbar, with the Imam and Chief Constable Andy Thornton in attendance.
It was then that events began to escalate. Along with his suspension, the child at the centre of the row had now received death threats. Chief Constable (and clearly nodding-dog wannabe) Thornton showed a remarkable lack of interest in these, though possibly sensing the mosque’s desire for blood, had agreed to upgrade the matter to that lowest of police jokes – the ‘hate incident’. Councillor Akbar (who conveniently carries the second part of Islam’s favourite incendiary expression in his name, should he ever need to use it), dismissed the death threats as ‘passions flaring’. He was however, keen to highlight that the boy’s mother (hijab-ensconced naturally) was terrified; that he had personally ‘tested’ the boy on his knowledge of Islam, and that you must ‘put the Koran in a high place’ and ‘wash your hands’ before touching it.
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