If you’re feeling like the left has gotten out of control in America these days (and you’d be absolutely correct), you might take some comfort in the fact that people have it even worse in England. At a school in West Yorkshire, four students have been suspended from school and are under investigation. The “crime” that got them in trouble was “slightly damaging” a book. As you might have already guessed, the book in question was the Quran. The “damage” resulted from the book being accidentally dropped and falling to the floor. To make the story even more absurd, the book was the property of one of the boys who was suspended. And now the local government is getting involved. (FEE)

In the United Kingdom, four students have recently been suspended from their school after slightly damaging a Quran, despite there being “no malicious intent by those involved” according to the BBC report.

A boy had taken the Quran to school last week and given it to another pupil who read out passages on the tennis court. The book was then taken inside and fell on the floor before being put in a pupil’s bag. The book was the student’s own property. Yet this was deemed as a suspension-worthy offense by the school.

To escalate the situation more, a local government official, Usman Ali, claimed the book had been “desecrated” and it “needs to be dealt with urgently by all the authorities, namely the police, the school and the local authority”

News of a complete non-incident at a local school that was over in a matter of moments somehow spread on social media. The boy who dropped the book is now receiving death threats online. Turning up the heat of this story even further, a local official named Akef Akbar has weighed in regarding the death threats and simply said, “Tempers do flare.”

As the FEE article goes on to inform us, the book-dropping event has been recorded as a “non-crime hate incident.” That’s apparently a thing in Great Britain now. That’s defined as “anything said or done which is seen as being motivated by prejudice on any protected characteristic.” Note the phrase “anything said or done.” You don’t even have to physically do anything. You can be charged just for saying something. And the country has recorded 120,000 of these charges in the past five years.

FEE reporter Jess Gill describes the ongoing situation as one where the British left has adopted “the cultural Marxist framework of seeing groups through the dichotomy of either being the oppressed or oppressors.” That sounds about right. Christianity remains the dominant religion in Great Britain, so Christians are viewed as oppressors. Muslims are a minority, so they must be the oppressed. As such, anything that happens that might offend them is treated as a crime. Anyone who complains about the situation must be a bigot. And local government and law enforcement have been weaponized to enforce the system.

That brings us to the obvious question that Gill asks in the interview below. Why is it acceptable to say someone can burn a Bible but if someone damages a Quran they should be punished? Can you even imagine how this situation would have played out if the roles and religions had been reversed?

Why is it acceptable to say someone can burn a Bible but if someone damages a Quran they should be punished?pic.twitter.com/v57xLe7Puj

— Jess Gill (@jessgill03) February 27, 2023