Posted on 09/24/2025 4:56:07 PM PDT by TigerClaws
A Muslim man who attacked someone burning a Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London has been spared jail.
Moussa Kadri, 59, saw Hamit Coskun setting alight the text and shouted: "I'm going to kill you" before slashing at him with a knife. He later told police he was protecting his religion, Southwark Crown Court heard.
Judge Adam Hiddleston handed Kadri a 20-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months.
'I'm coming back'
The incidents happened on 13 February in Rutland Gardens, Knightsbridge, when Coskun, 51, shouted "Islam is religion of terrorism" and "Quran is burning".
Coskun, who is half Kurdish and half Armenian, travelled from his home in the Midlands and set fire to the Koran at about 14:00 GMT, prosecutors previously said.
Kadri approached and asked Coskun why he was burning it.
Coskun could be heard in footage making a reference to "terrorists", and Kadri swore, called him "an idiot" and said "one sec, I'm coming back". Kadri later returned holding a knife and slashed at Coskun, the court heard. The judge said that the way Kadri lost his temper was "disgraceful" and that the "use of blades is a curse on our community".
Hamit Coskun was convicted at Westminster Magistrates Court in June Kadri said to Coskun: "Burning the Quran? It's my religion, you don't burn the Quran."
He later told police: "I protect my religion."
Greg Unwin, defending, said: "This was a response to a very unusual situation that Mr Kadri has demonstrated regret and remorse for. "His reaction was in the heat of the moment to what he perceived was a deeply offensive act on a holy book."
'Highly provocative'
Coskun was convicted at Westminster Magistrates' Court in June of a religiously aggravated public order offence.
An appeal was lodged with the Crown Court.
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But of course.
Free rein for the invading marauders.
If the koran was the private property of the burner then what can be done about. It is Private Property, no different than taking out your trash.
Atheists buy bibles all the time to try and cause fights by public burning them.
There will be a public burning of the Koran, perhaps after the next 911 event. Then what?
The UK has laid out the welcome mat for the religious fanatic savages that it is importing to replace the old Whities.
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