Can you elaborate on this at all?
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Replying to @Liggi
2007: "LOL, these wingnuts actually think we could end up under Shariah!" 2017: UK police publicly brag about enforcing Shariah.
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Replying to @Liggi
If you've not been paying attention to the criminalization of criticism of Islam, that's your selective attention issue.
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Replying to @Outsideness
I'm asking honestly for an example/examples, I'm not trying to catch you out. I actually want to know.
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Replying to @Liggi
Google "UK police twitter islamophobia" and you'll be at the entrance to the rabbit-hole.
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Replying to @Outsideness
I've found them removing a campaign for having a logo like the "ISIS gesture", and people being arrested for inciting religious/racial...
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Replying to @Liggi @Outsideness
...hatred (which has been a crime in the U.K. for ages). Still not seen any enforcement of Sharia though? Am I being blind here?
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If you think this is OK (and remotely consistent with ancient English liberties) there's really nothing I can say.http://www.businessinsider.com/in-britain-police-arrest-twitter-and-facebook-users-if-they-make-anti-muslim-statements-2013-5 …
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Replying to @Outsideness
It's a stupid law, which has been used in the past to arrest people for Twitter jokes. But it's not "enforcing Sharia", even at a stretch.
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If you want to defend some mental wall between "protecting Islam from criticism" and "enforcing Shariah" that's your lookout.
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Replying to @Outsideness
Do you know what they said? Somehow I doubt it was simply "criticism of Islam", I imagine it was racist comments about Muslims.
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Replying to @Liggi @Outsideness
Which, frankly, I think they should be free to say, as I said. But you're being dishonest in your framing, and you know it.
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