Britain 'could have Muslim blasphemy laws by Tuesday' warns Free Speech Union chief ahead of crunch High Court ruling

He now has to live in a safe house - but the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is now attempting to reverse the decision, and will have its case heard at the High Court this Tuesday.

Now, Tory peer Lord Young has told GB News a successful appeal would lead to Muslim blasphemy laws in Britain.

The FSU chief, who will back Mr Coskun against the CPS, issued a series of warnings last night of what could happen if he loses.

"If the court overturns his acquittal and upholds the conviction, that will effectively create a a Muslim blasphemy law by the back door," he said.

"It will send a message to Muslim fanatics up and down the country that if they want to enforce Islamic blasphemy codes, all they have to do is violently attack the blasphemer, and the blasphemer will then be charged with a religiously aggravated public order offence.

"It's a recipe for chaos. It will be the death knell for free speech in Britain. It will cause a huge rise in community tensions."

Lord Young went on to ask: "Why should Islamic blasphemy codes be embedded in our criminal law - but not Christian blasphemy codes, which were scrapped 18 years ago?"

Mr Coskun was found guilty of a religiously aggravated public order offence in 2025 after shouting "f*** Islam" while burning the Muslim holy book outside the consulate.

The quashing of his conviction was hailed as a free speech victory by politicians including Robert Jenrick.

Before travelling to London, he wrote posts on social media detailing his plan and saying it was to “protest the Islamist government” of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom he said “has made Turkey a base for radical Islamists and is trying to establish a Sharia regime".

He went on to hold the burning book aloft whilst shouting slogans including "Islam is the religion of terrorism" and "f**k Islam".

During the incident, a passer-by named Moussa Kadri attacked him - but only received a suspended prison sentence.

Lord Young told GB News on Monday the CPS "seems absolutely determined to try and make sure that anyone who burns a copy of the Koran and who is attacked as a consequence is prosecuted in future".

Should he prevail in court, Mr Coskun has pledged to continue burning Korans on a planned tour of Birmingham, Liverpool and Glasgow in protest against the "Islamification" of Turkey.

The National Secular Society, supporting Mr Coskun alongside the FSU, agreed the CPS "appears determined to establish a blasphemy law by the back door".

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A NSS spokesman said prosecutors were casting "those subjected to violence for offending religious sensibilities as the wrongdoers - a stark inversion of justice".

But if he loses, the White House is said to be in discussions to grant him refugee status in the States.

Such an outcome "would be extremely embarrassing for Sir Keir Starmer - who is Mr Human Rights after all", Lord Young said.

"For an asylum seeker who's come to the UK fleeing persecution in Turkey to be granted political asylum in America on human rights grounds because his human rights are endangered in Britain would be hugely, hugely embarrassing for Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour Government."

In a statement launching its appeal, the CPS said there was "no law to prosecute people for 'blasphemy'".

It added: "Our case remains that Hamit Coskun's words, choice of location and burning of the (Koran) amounted to disorderly behaviour.

"We have appealed the decision, and the judge has agreed to state a case for the High Court to consider."