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Remember the white boy who dropped the Koran, then being threatened with death and the Police shitting themselves…… The mosque’s imam, Hafiz Muhammad Mateen Anwar, told the crowd that night that anyone who resorted to threats or violence ‘is not truly following the teaching of Islam’. Still, Anwar stressed, ‘we will never tolerate the disrespect of the holy Koran. We will sacrifice our lives for it.’ He said all this sat next to a police officer, inspector Andy Thornton, who also spoke. Thornton could be seen nodding sagely as Anwar said the Koran incident was not being ‘brushed under the carpet’. This meeting, seemingly held to tamp down tensions, only underlined the shameful reality: that in modern-day Britain, disrespecting Islam, even accidentally, is a risky business. Even if you’re a schoolboy. And in trying to assuage these ‘religious sensitivities’, the school and the police had unwittingly helped place a target on that child’s back; punishing him, and his friends, while letting those threatening to kill him off the hook.