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Burning the Koran isn't illegal: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgv785n23eo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgv785n23eo Viewing far right propaganda doe
by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
Burning the Koran isn't illegal: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgv785n23eo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgv785n23eo
Viewing far right propaganda does not carry a 15 year jail sentence, though conservative politician Rudd wished it did: your own article (did you even read it)
- lern_too_spel 2mo agoNor is "merely possessing material" that could stir up racial hatred a crime. The law requires intent or likelihood of stirring up racial hatred. I don't know why you linked to a page filled with ads when the text of the law is available straight from the government that implemented it: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/64/data.html#key-a800a341a95e15051ff931ed7ed99357 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/64/data.html#key-a... If a person presenting or directing the performance is not shown to have intended to stir up racial hatred, it is a defence for him to prove— (a) that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that the performance would involve the use of the offending words or behaviour, or (b) that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that the offending words or behaviour were threatening, abusive or insulting, or (c) that he did not know and had no reason to suspect that the circumstances in which the performance would be given would be such that racial hatred would be likely to be stirred up.