
Criminalising Koran burning would be reintroducing blasphemy law, court told
Prosecuting a man for burning the Koran is “tantamount to reintroducing a blasphemy law” in the UK, a trial heard. Hamit Coskun, 50, shouted “f*** Islam”, “Islam is religion of terrorism” and “Koran is burning” as he held the flaming Islamic text aloft …