Credit: Crown Prosecution Service.The burning of a Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London amounted to a religiously aggravated public order offence, a judge has found.Hamit Coskun, 50, shouted "f*** Islam", "Islam is religion of terrorism" and "Koran is burning" as he held the flaming Islamic text aloft in Rutland Gardens, Knightsbridge, London, on February 13, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard last week.Coskun denies a religiously aggravated public order offence of using disorderly be

Credit: Crown Prosecution Service.The burning of a Koran outside the Turkish consulate in London amounted to a religiously aggravated public order offence, a judge has found.Hamit Coskun, 50, shouted "f*** Islam", "Islam is religion of terrorism" and "Koran is burning" as he held the flaming Islamic text aloft in Rutland Gardens, Knightsbridge, London, on February 13, Westminster Magistrates' Court heard last week.Coskun denies a religiously aggravated public order offence of using disorderly behaviour "within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress", motivated by "hostility towards members of a religious group, namely followers of Islam", contrary to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and the Public Order Act 1986.