SUPPORT NICK TIMOTHY'S BILL TO STOP BLASPHEMY LAWS BY THE BACK DOOR
Last week a banner was raised in Parliament, signifying the beginning of a fightback, against the government's manic concern over "Islamophobia". Nick Timothy MP (Con.), presented a Bill to amend the Public Order Act so that freedom for any criticism, even harsh, derisory and sarcastic, of any religion, should be preserved from prosecution or criminalisation.
This responds to the frankly absurd reasoning implicit in the statement by the judge while he convicted Mr Coskun, a dissident Turkish citizen, for burning a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish Consulate in London, when he was assaulted by two outraged passers-by, one of them wielding a knife.
To quote from an article by Dr Frederick Attenborough, of the Free Speech Union, appearing on Visegrad24.com,
Central to Judge McGarva's ruling was the claim that Coskun's behaviour was "disorderly" in law not simply because of what he said or did, but because of the reaction it provoked. "That the conduct was disorderly is no better illustrated than by the fact that it led to serious public disorder involving him being assaulted by two different people," the judge wrote.
In other words, the fact that Coskun was attacked by a knife-wielding man was treated not only as a consequence of his protest, but as evidence of its criminality.
It is to stop this absurd defacto reintroduction of blasphemy laws in Britain, in favour of Islam, that Nick Timothy has presented his Bill. A list of some 10 MPS are added to his name as co-signatories. They are all Conservative, save for that of Rupert Lowe MP, expelled from Reform over disagreements with Nigel Farage.
Farage's name really ought to be on the list, but alas is not. Perhaps Reform's former Chairman, the multimillionaire Muhammad Zia Yussuf, would not have been happy? He reently left the Party in disapproval of a Parliamentary Question by Sarah Pochin a newly-elected MP in the Party, about burkas, and then re-joined 48 hours later.
The Bill will be debated on July 11th, and should put a big spoke in the wheel of the Grieve-Raynor Committee to define and criminalise "Islamophobia".
One of the signatories of this Bill is Robert Jenrick MP, who was the runner-up candidate to lead the Tory party after the last General Election. Jenrick has made a video complaining about the generalised control over HM Prisons now exercised by Islamist gangs of inmates, who have been frightening other prisoners to convert to Islam on the slogan, "Convert, or get hurt". He is the Shadow Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary, well-placed to oppose the Starmer government's militantly Muslim Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary, and ask her some awkward questions.
Will Kemi Badenoch and the Tory party as a whole rally round and support Robert Jenrick and Nick Timothy in their Bill? Will Nigel Farage shake off the spell he has been cast under not to touch the Islam issue? Will the majority of Labour MPS realise the dangers of the freedom-suffocating swamp into which the UK is sliding?
On these questions rests the future of the country.
