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In the UK, a 15-year-old girl is arrested for burning the Koran ? and posting a video of her conduct/speech on Facebook.

This is happening in the U.K.!

It is thought the girl, who lives in the Sandwell Council area, was allegedly filmed setting the booklet alight while other pupils watched.

Booklet?

It is understood that the group who published that version of the Koran have since been to the school to talk to pupils.

Were Korans distributed by public school officials? Under what circumstances? If you want a book to be treated with respect, don't hand it out free to teenagers. Maybe the school officials should be arrested.

Bob Badham, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council cabinet member for education, said he had visited the school and believed the atmosphere was generally good among pupils. He added that he did not believe there was a "deeper problem" in the area.

Is contempt for religious indoctrination a "deeper problem" that government should concern itself with? I think the deeper problem is that government officials in the U.K. seem to have lost touch with basic principles of freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

Full post as published by Althouse on November 25, 2010 (boomark / email).