Britain’s first political refugee may be Hamit Coskun, who burned a Qur’an outside the Turkish consulate in London in February 2025 and was fined for disorderly conduct in court – under aggravating circumstances, on account of the religious dimension – but has subsequently been acquitted. The prosecution has now appealed, and if he is convicted again, he will seek asylum in Trump’s United States.

Coskun experiences that a man who shouted “I will kill you!” and attacked him with a knife during the Qur’an burning was treated more leniently, while he himself is being dragged through a protracted, Kafkaesque legal process. That Islam is taking up ever greater space in our Western societies is becoming so evident that one may wonder where it will end. And how did we get here?

Hamit Coskun is, as his name suggests, not British. He has lived in the island kingdom since 2022. Ironically, he fled from an Islamist country, Turkey, where dissent against Islam was, to put it mildly, problematic, to another country, a so-called liberal democracy, where it is likewise not unproblematic to speak against Islam.

For in Britain there has gradually been ever less room for voices critical of Islam. It suffices to mention Sadiq Khan and his “Londonistan”, the anonymous teacher who continues to live in hiding after showing a drawing of the Prophet Muhammad in Northern England, or Muslims in Whitechapel in London who demand that Christians should not be permitted to preach because they find themselves in a “Muslim area”.

Or what about the (Muslim) Sudanese asylum seeker who, despite 29 convictions against him, is still at liberty, even though he has brandished knives at Speaker’s Corner? Or Shahid Butt, who was convicted of having planned to bomb the British consulate in Yemen in 1999, and who is standing for election to Birmingham City Council this year? Despite concerns from both Conservative and Labour representatives, he is still permitted to stand.

Islam is handled with silk gloves, for reasons unknown. Possibly it is fear of reprisals from an ever more numerous Muslim population and “community leaders”, unelected “community leaders”, or strategic politics: when demography changes and the Muslim population increases, it may be prudent to have “the Muslim vote” – for one assumes that they vote as the leaders instruct them. That is how clan culture is structured. Another answer may be that those at the top simply do not care about preserving British culture – or Norwegian, or German, for that matter. All cultures are equally good, and centuries of history can easily be replaced with something else.

It begins in small ways

Hamit Coskun himself says that had he known that challenging the Islamist propaganda that destroyed his homeland could lead to legal persecution here in Britain, he might have thought twice. Like large parts of the British population, he had no idea how far Islamisation has already progressed in Britain.

Gad Saad recounts in an interview with Piers Morgan, who somewhat naively maintains that the country is by no means in the process of being taken over by Islam, that it begins in small ways, rather like type 2 diabetes: “They do not amputate your leg at once, but if you do not address the problems, that is the path it takes.”

 

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