Free Speech Activists Wade Into Teenage Quran Row Treated as a ‘Hate Incident’ by Police

Free Speech Activists Wade Into Teenage Quran Row Treated as a ‘Hate Incident’ by Police
A police officer using a radio in the UK on Nov. 2, 2011. David Cheskin/PA Media
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The Free Speech Union has called on police to drop a “hate incident” record after a pupil caused “slight damage” to a copy of the Quran when it fell on the floor in a school.

Last Wednesday, the BBC reported that four pupils were suspended from a West Yorkshire secondary school after an accusation that ‘slight damage’ in the form of a smudged page was caused to a copy of the Quran.
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