Man convicted for burning Quran outside Turkish consulate in UK – Middle East Monitor

A man who set fire to a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London was found guilty of committing a religiously aggravated public order offence yesterday, Reuters reported.

Hamit Coskun, 50, was fined £240 ($325) at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court after being convicted of being disorderly by shouting “F*** Islam” as he held aloft the burning book near the consulate in central London in February.

The lawyer for Coskun, whose…