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Originally Posted by John Page
And Christopher Booker in today's Sunday Telegraph
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Blair's religious tolerance
We have all been astonished by the pictures of Sir Ian Blair's Metropolitan Police officers standing impassively alongside Muslim protesters brandishing artfully prepared placards with slogans such as "Behead those who insult Islam" and "Be prepared for the real Holocaust".
Could these po-faced officers have been drawn from the same ranks as the three policemen who on October 26 last year stopped John Banda, a devout, 74-year-old Christian, near London Bridge? As I reported, Mr Banda, formerly the treasurer of the United Church of Zambia, was displaying a placard containing two quotations from the New Testament: "Jesus Christ is Lord. Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out."
The policemen told him in no uncertain fashion that this proclamation was in breach of the Public Order Act 1986. If he did not remove it at once, he would be arrested and charged with displaying written material which was "threatening, abusive or insulting" and intended to "stir up racial hatred".
Could Sir Ian Blair please explain what on earth he thinks he is up to?
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He should have displayed a poster praising Allah. The police would probably given him a lift home afterwards!