How bad are things in the UK? It’s at the point where it’s getting to be worse than some actual Muslim countries. In actual Muslim countries, Sharia law is officially implemented and it’s clear what is and isn’t against the law. In the UK, public order and hate crime regulations have been used to construct a lawless and nebulous structure that allows the police to threaten anyone with arrest for offending Islam.

Earlier this month, the UK made headlines by officially implementing Sharia blasphemy law under the guise of hate crimes.

A man who burned a copy of the Koran has been charged with “harassing” Islam, which risks creating a “back door blasphemy law” in Britain, Robert Jenrick has warned.

The shadow justice secretary has claimed that the charge against Hamit Coskun, 50, for harassing the “religious institution of Islam” is a threat to free speech.

Now insulting Hamas is also a crime.

The man at the center of the latest case, Peter Tatchell, is a veteran activist who started out with gay rights and migrated to other issues, including Israel. The remarkable thing here is that Tatchell is anti-Israel. He protests against Israel. But he made the mistake of also condemning Hamas… not for its murders of Israelis, but the killings of other Arab Muslim under its rule.

Activist Peter Tatchell has said stewards at a pro-Palestine march used the police to “silence” his criticism of Hamas.

The Metropolitan Police said the human rights campaigner was arrested in “error” at a march in London on Saturday after “concerns were raised with officers by stewards from the Palestine Coalition protest”.

Mr Tatchell, 73, was taking part in a protest organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and was carrying a placard which read “Stop Israel genocide! Stop Hamas executions!”.

He said he had attended the protest to “condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza, but also to expose Hamas’s execution of Palestinian critics”.

Mr Tatchell told the PA news agency: “I find it shocking that the campaign, which I have supported for 54 years, would seek to use the police to silence my criticism of Hamas.

Man who kept feeding other people to tiger, shocked that the tiger wants to eat him too.

“Some said ‘f*** off’, others said ‘get out of here’ and accused me of being ‘Zionist scum’.

“Despite me being threatened, the police stood by and did nothing. I was frightened for my safety, but the police did not intervene.”

Mr Tatchell said Palestine Solidarity Campaign stewards then wrongly told police that he had been shouting “Hamas are terrorists”, adding that officers told him shouting such a slogan “was a potential criminal offence”.

The activist said he was then approached by a police officer who wrongly believed him to be “part of a counter protest” and was subsequently arrested for a racially and religiously aggravated breach of the peace under the Public Order Act.

Opposing the Hamas killing of Muslims is racist and Islamophobic.

There’s no pro-Palestinian movement. There’s a pro-Hamas and a movement calling for the murder of Jews and anyone who opposes Islamic terrorism.

Tatchell tested the boundaries of that in the gentlest of fashions and like the liberals who attended Communist rallies and tried to condemn Stalin, discovered what the game really is.

Now his DNA is on file.

“Police allege that my placard was a ‘racially and religiously aggravated breach of the peace’ and that I had violated a Section 14 order. That is nonsense. My placard made no mention of anyone’s race or religion.

“According to the police, Palestine march stewards told them I shouted “Hamas are terrorists.” I never shouted anything. This was a crude smear by stewards to get the police to remove me from the march. Even if someone said those words, they have a right to do so under the laws protecting freedom of speech and the right to protest.

“Police falsely alleged that I was part of a counter anti-Palestine protest. That allegation is refuted by the fact that my placard was pro-Palestine. It said ‘STOP Israel genocide!’ and I was wearing a “Free Palestine’ badge, which is the official badge of the protest organisers, the PSC.

I was detained on the pavement, in a police van and in cells at Charing Cross police station for a total of 5 hours, 38 minutes. I was finger-printed, DNA-sampled and photographed.

“My arrest and prolonged detention was justified by the police on the absurd grounds that it was ‘thought unlikely person would attend voluntarily’ for interview at a later date, and to ‘prevent the person in question (me) from causing physical injury to themselves or any other person.’ These claims are police slurs.

The Met police are promising an investigation to understand what happened just like the time they told a Jewish man to leave the area of a terrorist march because he was “visibly” Jewish, just like the time they raided a middle-aged woman’s house because she had been critical of them for posing with terrorists and just like those times, the conclusion will be that the police did nothing wrong. Sir Mark Rowley will explain how proud he is every time a critic of Islamic terrorism is arrested in the finest traditions of Saudi Arabia.