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Posted on 02/16/2026 3:18:48 PM PST by Kazan
The Trump administration is preparing to grant refugee status to a man who burned a Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London and is now facing further legal proceedings in the UK.
Hamit Coskun, 51, previously had a conviction for a religiously aggravated public order offence overturned after he set fire to a copy of the Koran during a protest in Knightsbridge.
However, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is challenging that ruling at a High Court hearing scheduled for Tuesday.
A senior U.S. administration official told The Telegraph that it was “one of several cases the administration has made note of.”
Coskun, who sought asylum in Britain from Turkey, has said he may seek protection in the United States if his acquittal is reversed.
“For me, as the victim of Islamic terrorism, I cannot remain silent. I may be forced to flee the UK and move to the USA, where President Trump has stood for free speech and against Islamic extremism,” he said.
“If I have to do so, then, to me, the UK will have effectively fallen to Islamism and the speech codes that it wishes to impose on the non-Muslim world.”
In February last year, Coskun appeared outside the Turkish consulate and set fire to the Koran while shouting slogans critical of Islam.
During the incident, a passerby attacked him and was later given a suspended prison sentence.
Initially charged with harassing the “religious institution of Islam,” Coskun was later prosecuted for disorderly behaviour and fined $300.
His conviction was overturned at Southwark Crown Court, where Mr Justice Bennathan said freedom of expression “must include the right to express views that offend, shock or disturb.”
During his first trial, the left-wing activist Judge John McGarva denounced his act as “provocative and taunting” and accused him of harboring a “deep-seated hatred of Islam and its followers.”
“It’s not possible to separate your views about the religion to your views about the followers,” McGarva declared.
“Your actions in burning the Quran where you did were highly provocative, and your actions were accompanied by bad language in some cases directed toward the religion and were motivated at least in part by hatred of followers of the religion,” he continued.
The case has drawn attention in Washington as the White House seeks to highlight to widespread attacks on freedom of speech across most European countries.
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People burn Bibles every day and no one says a damned word
i support this
In good King Charles' golden days when loyalty no harm meant
A pious man of God was I and so I gained preferment.
There is no god but God quoth I, Muhammad is His prophet.
The infidel sign upon the flag shall soon be taken off it.
And this be law, I shall maintain ...
How long before Emperor Big-mouth Boasberg says he’s got to go back?
The Rights to the koran are NOT vested in the Crown as is the KJV.
Cum Privilegio
Definition and Citations:
The expression of the monopoly of Oxford, Cambridge, and the royal printers to publish the Bible.
So the koran can be burned or used as toilet paper.
Exactly, the only thing the unholy quran is good for is kindling for fires.
Turn him loose in Minnemalia….
You have an astonishingly good idea there, for toilet paper.
Finally, an asylum-seeker with a legitimate claim.
Keir Musloid-Bum-Licker.
“People burn Bibles every day and no one says a damned word”
The vision of my family’s Bibles burning is the most painful part of the wildfire I survived. I completely fall apart every time I think of it
I can’t imagine what I would do if I saw someone burning a Bible or flag.
And lo, King Jimmy BiasedJerk has spoken.
It’s time to remove all the power of the royal leeches
Peter O’Toole or Omar Sharif he ain’t.
Up, Chuck...
> Mr Justice Bennathan said freedom of expression “must include the right to express views that offend, shock or disturb.” <
Wow. Well said, Mr Justice Bennathan!
👏
I suppose that Prime Minister Starmer is even now trying to find a way to remove Justice Bennathan. Perhaps they’ll accuse him of senility.
Or perhaps of being a racist. That old standby usually works.
Oh, wait. Never mind. You’re right.
You an actually download the Kouran and delete it.
Excellent
Why do we need this guy here?
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