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@jeremycorbyn Pull your head out of the sand. You go on about the so called far right, when you're the epitome of the dangerous extreme left whose aim is to ruin this country. You will not succeed.

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@minnano_dougaww I can't see any difference

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@AntiWokeMemes Thanks for the mansplaining Daniel. Us poor women need men like you to guide us.

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@ElonBeyondX B

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@ElonBeyondX No. Mainly because he has elevated MPs who are dishonest and think that women's safety is just bringing out a dogwhistle.

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@Jolie_Miller09 No, this is how God made me.

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@Beno10_MFC 27?

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Former police officer and foster parent Stephen Gray, who was convicted of a criminal offence for sharing “grossly offensive” content under the Communications Act 2003 after reposting a Facebook joke about Islam, has warned that blasphemy law is back in Britain.

Stephen, 65, is now appealing his conviction from April this year with the help of the Free Speech Union.

A district judge deemed Stephen’s resharing on Facebook of an image of a rasher of bacon and a man in a turban, alongside the caption “Fun facts about Bacon!” People who eat bacon have a lower chance of marrying a 9-year-old!” — a reference to the Prophet Muhammad marrying a 9-year-old — to be “grossly offensive”.

Gray said: “I made a joke, an ironic joke, about Islam. That is all it was at the end of the day. A joke. I certainly never, not for one second, thought it would be deemed abusive.”

Stephen and his wife were gravely concerned about the outcome because they have fostered six children over the past seven years. However, when he informed social services of his conviction, they rightly said that it was ‘utter rubbish’.

We are seeing an alarming re-emergence of blasphemy law in the UK — for Islam alone via the back door. This has been accelerated by the Government’s official definition of Islamophobia, repackaged as ‘anti-Muslim hostility’.

At the start of the year, the FSU secured a landmark victory for Hamit Coskun, who was initially convicted of an aggravated public order offence for burning a Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London. The FSU helped him successfully appeal the conviction, and when the Crown Prosecution Service tried to appeal his acquittal, we won again.

Stephen said he believes prosecutions such as his are an attempt to revive blasphemy laws in the UK. He said: “I just think it’s a dangerous road that the Government is going down trying to use the justice system to get us to stop criticising a religion that promotes a lot of things people might not agree with”.

General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young of Acton, has said: “Prosecuting people for making jokes about Islam, particularly if they contain a kernel of truth, is a new low.

“No one making a similar joke about Jesus would face prosecution. Blasphemy laws were abolished in England 18 years ago and should not be resurrected by the courts and applied to just one religion.

“If Labour wants to make it a criminal offence to offend Muslims, but not Christians, Hindus, Sikhs or Buddhists, Andy Burnham should include that in the next King’s Speech. Good luck getting it through parliament.”

The Free Speech Union is helping Stephen appeal his conviction and has instructed leading criminal silk John Beggs KC to act for him.

With your support, we hope to be able to pay for Stephen’s legal defence in the Crown Court and meet the costs of any further appeals.

Please donate to Stephen’s crowdfunder via the link below and read more in The Telegraph 👇

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@NotFarLeftAtAll Protect our borders. What are we, the land of milk and honey?

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@farman4x 9?

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@SVPhillimore @T0MB0Y0 Biology matters

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@thetimes What!!! Aren't women denied pain relief in Afghanistan.

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@NotFarLeftAtAll It's just a delusion

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@farman4x 8

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@Mistyrose_iQ 6. These are easy

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@mahrukh2872 5

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@BasilTheGreat Yes. To save this country.

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@farman4x Is it 48? First I thought 5 but now I think 48

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@vonderleyen White noise. What you say is meaningless.

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@KTHopkins @LBC You couldn't make it up. What has happened to the common sense of humans