New British Crime?

Today marked a new era in UK legal jurisprudence, when District Judge Derek Chalk, apparently decided to introduce a new crime in to the UK ......  "Theatrical Bigotry", for which the sentence seems to be 70 days (30 days for stealing the book and 70 days for upsetting the Muslims - note that stealing got the lesser sentence), when a non Muslim, called Andrew Ryan burnt the stolen Koran in public ...

Burning Books Has Been Seen Before.

..... apparently we are now 'entitled to protest, but not in that manner' 

...... I seem to recall that in former times it would have been classed under the name of "Free Speech" or "Freedom of Expression" (whether you agreed with that opinion or not), but has now been ploughed underground in favour of the 'feelings' of a foreign creed, that itself tolerates no other in its own lands.

Of course this begs the question, will burning a Bible (or a Poppy - A radical Muslim and member of the ‘Muslims Against Crusaders’ group, Emdadur Choudhury, set fire to a few plastic poppies on Armistice Day and allegedly shouted out vile things about British soldiers, in order to annoy people who had gathered to commemorate the dead of two world wars -- He just got a £50 fine), now attract a jail sentence? 

To-date the evidence is that Islamists who offend our sensibilities, do not go to prison no matter what the nature of the crime they commit is. As to any offence burning the Quran may have caused, as I have pointed out before, Muslims apparently care little about it when its Muslim blowing up Mosques and Qurans ..... only when an 'Infidel', in a non Muslim country upsets them, is there any offence apparently violently taken. 

Now it seems to me that the actual worrying thing about this sentence, is that this appears to have set some sort of a precedent, one that any government would do well to be worried about .... what about burning Bibles or Torah's or any other "Holy Book" (Jedi 'force' manuals?) .... how about us atheists, are our rights to be proscribed the by the feelings of religious nutters? Does any book qualify for this new sentence of "Theatrical Bigotry", or is it only those that some delusional being considers 'Holy'.

When the Labour Government tried to bring in "Religious protection" laws, there was a liberal backlash, and they were dropped ... but now some PC minded judge has introduced the legal concept that Islam is due special consideration .... Can I assume that from now on, any Muslim burning Poppy's or Bibles, or Skinheads burning Torahs, will also now get 70 days in prison, or will it vary according to some undefined level of offence taken?

Probably not ....