Douglas Murray exposes UK's blasphemy law after a man was convicted for burning Quran
The man has been convicted of a religiously activated public order offence and fined.
'If somebody were to set light to a Bible, everybody would be running out saying, this man has an absolute right to do so,' Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
'It's a blasphemy law that the state is allowing to be pushed through by threat of force.
'There's no good argument for why the Quran has to be treated as the holiest of holy books.
'No, it's only that intimidation, violence, and thuggery seems to work.
'And I thought that was the sort of thing that the law was there to protect us against.'
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