Man arrested after live video of Quran being burned in Manchester

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/man-arrested-after-live-video-30915996

by mayoirin

29 comments

  1. I really don’t think people should be arrested for destroying their own personal property

  2. Disagree with different faiths all you like, but what the fuck is book burning going to prove?

  3. Can’t see anything wrong with it personally, aside starting fires and in / a public space which is of course the bigger issue.

  4. Racially aggravated offence?Islam is a belief not a race.

  5. Ah good ‘ole blasphemy laws. Nothing makes you feel more enriched than carefully tailoring every aspect of your public life to avoid offending people who think the peak of humanity are 7th century desert slaver tribes.

  6. Probably arrested for his own protection based on what happened the other day. 

  7. Ask yourself, if this guy had burned a bible, would he have been arrested?

    The UK effectively has blasphemy laws via the backdoor.

    > “We made a swift arrest at the time and recognise the right people have for freedom of expression, but when this crosses into intimidation to cause **harm or distress** we will always look to take action when it is reported to us.”

    The entire point of protest is it can cause harm & distress, criticising and mocking someone’s religion or burning their holy book might cause them ‘harm & distress’ but tough, this is how a liberal society should function, we are meant to have moved passed the dark ages.

    If people want to live in a country with strict religious blasphemy laws, they should leave the UK.

  8. Racially aggravated public order offense? Really? Wtf is going on.

  9. Fuck off I can burn any books I want as long as those books belong to me, regardless religious or not

  10. For the same reason you shouldn’t pick fights, especially with nutters, you shouldn’t find yourself cutting about burning the Quran

    Make your point in a normal way, even if folk understand the frustration that’s your opinion

    Would rather you weren’t yeno.. dead or in jail

    Also makes you & anyone criticising them look like an imbecile not worth listening to

    The people that do this genuinely think they’re some Richard Dawkins figure rather than someone making the worst possible point & attracting the worst possible people

  11. Yeah there’s a few people who are going to want to do something in retaliation for this. Hopefully no one innocent gets hurt because of it. 

  12. All this proves is that he’s not very smart, news flash. People of all ‘faiths’ really need to not get so butt-hurt about people doing this to their fictional literature about their imaginary friends though, seriously.

  13. Just a bit of a cunty thing to do no matter how you spin it.

  14. If they arrested him for arson it’s fine.

    It’s just a book lots of people like reading, that shouldn’t change the outcome.

    Print another one and be done.

  15. What colour is the race of islam please?
    Which geographical specific location this race originated from?

    This is UK simply implementing blasphemy, against one ideology only. No bible burning would result in arrest, as no book burning ever should.

    The police and politicians simply gave up because if the “diverse community” starts rioting or selectively behead them, there’s not enough forces to stop them.

  16. Would he have been arrested for burning a Christian Bible? Of course not. Claims of a two tier society given weight and evidence yet again.

  17. It’s not about burning a book. He deliberately did it to antagonise others.

    Free speech? – let’s talk about it then

  18. He should have just laid into the police officers, broke one of their noses and he could have just gone home after

  19. Under the public order act we do not have freedom of expression in the UK so idk why people are banging on about that

  20. Hw did it to prove that followers of that religion get special treatment and as many commenter on this thread have helped him do so. If no one cared and he was able to mock/pur down religion, this wouldn’t have even been reported on here

  21. Is it just impossible for people to just stop being dick heads.

  24. Why can you be arrested for that, if it were outside a mosey then fine but if someone burnt a bible would they be arrested

  25. Was he arrested for doing it in the street? Cos I cab get that but in your own garden you can burn stuff

  26. Wouldn’t do it myself but that’s a ridiculous charge, that should be legal under the law to do

  27. Arrested simply for burning a book, or for being a fucking dick.

    You decide.

  28. Don’t think the dude should’ve been arrested it’s the sort of thing that needs to be burned anyways . They don’t respect us why would we respect them ? should do what trump does and do mass deportation

  29. Can’t even burn a Quran anymore country’s gone mad

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