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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Tara Cobham

HISTORICAL FACTS: Man spared jail for assault after koran burned outside turkish consulate in london | History Defined

Moussa Kadri leaves Southwark Crown Court in London on Tuesday - (Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

A Muslim man who attacked another man who was burning a Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London has been spared jail.

Hamit Coskun, 51, shouted “f*** Islam”, “Islam is religion of terrorism” and “Koran is burning”, as he held a flaming Islamic text aloft during a protest in Rutland Gardens, Knightsbridge, on 13 February.

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