Climate of Fear: UK School Pupils Suspended After Quran Sustains Small Tear, Smudged Page
Four pupils have been suspended from a high school in the UK after a Quran they purchased was said to have sustained a small tear.

Four pupils have been suspended from a high school in the UK after a Quran they purchased was said to have sustained a small tear.
Thirty-nine men and three women, aged 41 to 83, have been charged with historic offences encompassing rape, pimping, and false imprisonment, related to six children in Kirklees, Yorkshire.
Conservative MPs have called for a “Rotherham-style inquiry” into the mostly Pakistani heritage “grooming gangs” sexually preying on children in West Yorkshire, with accusations of inaction and of the scandal still being “swept under the carpet”.
West Yorkshire’s head of policing and crime has admitted that the streets are “less safe for women than they ever have been” in the multicultural English region.
Local Islamic leaders in West Yorkshire will send a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson demanding that Britain show “respect” to Islam or face becoming “like France” following controversy over a teacher showing students a picture of Mohammed.
Comedian Ricky Gervais has joined the chorus of condemnation against the suspension of a British teacher for showing a caricature of the Islamic prophet Mohammed, questioning whether people will be “punished for insulting unicorns” next.
A British teacher who showed his class cartoons of the Muslim prophet Mohammed has reportedly been moved to a safe location and is under police protection.
Batley Grammar School in the north of England has apologised profusely and suspended its Religious Education teacher after he showed a cartoon of Mohammed during a lesson on blasphemy.
An African asylum seeker is suing the government after he contracted coronavirus while staying in taxpayer-funded migrant accommodation.
Sixteen men including a police officer have been charged with multiple offences related to three girls aged between 13 and 16 in Halifax, West Yorkshire.
An Afghan man has been jailed after raping a pregnant woman at knifepoint in her own bed, and for an attack on a sleeping victim as her baby lay beside her in a cot.
Twenty men have been arrested for “non-recent child sexual exploitation” in West Yorkshire after a woman claimed to have been abused by the men as a child.
Officers have said they are investigating almost 200 cases of child sex abuse in Keighley, prompting fears of a ‘new Rochdale’ grooming gang in the small Yorkshire town. West Yorkshire Police are reportedly investigating 179 new sex crimes involving 165
Masked demonstrators have held an aggressive rally to protest the police shooting of an alleged violent drug dealer, chanting “Hands up, Don’t Shoot!” and using tactics similar to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the U.S.
A 17-year-old from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, is thought to have become Britain’s youngest suicide bomber after leaving home to join Islamic State in March. Talha Asmal, who is believed to have reached Iraq via a holiday flight to Turkey on 31 March, blew himself up