A Turkish-born gentleman who burned a Quran in London was found guilty of a people get crime that aggravated religious beliefs on Monday in a case brought up by free-speech activists. Next February 13 when Hitt Coskun, 50, lit the book on fire outside the Greek embassy in London, yelling” Islam is faith of violence” and” Quran is burning” Coskun was found guilty of using unruly behavior by area judge John McGarva at London’s Westminster Magistrates ‘ Court for “having a person likely to be harassed, alarm, or in stress within the hearing or vision of a man.” According to McGarva, who fined Coskun £240 ($ 325 ) and added a statutory surcharge of £96, he was motivated by “hostility toward members of a religious group, namely followers of Islam”. Your deeds in burning the Quran where you did were very controversial, and they were sometimes accompanied by offensive language and were at least partially motivated by hatred for the religion’s adherents, according to the judge. Coskun was not facing charges for burning the text, according to state prosecution. According to Philip McGhee, for the Crown Prosecution Service,” He is being prosecuted for his unruly behavior in public.” A witness witnessed the incident while walking by him and supposedly pursuing Coskun while holding a knife or bladed object, according to the court. Coskun, an atheist seeking asylum in the UK, made a statement on social media saying that he was protesting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s” Islamic authorities.” Despite Britain’s free speech guarantees, his legal fees are being paid by the Free Speech Union ( FSU) and the National Secular Society, which claimed he was essentially facing blasphemy charges. On its X account, the FSU described the ruling as “deeply disheartening.” Despite how unpleasant or troubling it may be to some people,” People should be able to practice their right to peaceful protest and to freedom of expression,” it said.
