Last week, a 14-year-old British boy was forced to flee his home and go into hiding, fearing for his life. Not because he swindled a county lines drugs crook, say, or was the sole witness of a heinous murder. Nothing so dramatic. Rather, his is a story of our times – the latest example, some would argue, of what happens when zealotry trumps common sense.
It all started when, as a forfeit for losing a video game, the boy was asked by his friends to buy a copy of the Koran and bring it to school, Kettlethorpe High in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. To what end, remains unclear. There was no malicious intent involved, but even for an impulsive adolescent it was obviously foolhardy, particularly given that the holy book, once inside school, became accidentally damaged, though only ‘slightly’ and not by the boy’s hands.
In his defence, he is autistic and, says his mother, ‘doesn’t always realise what is appropriate and what is not appropriate’.
Islam is a satanic murder cult.
