White House Set to Accept Koran Burner as Refugee
16th February 2026
The Trump administration is in talks to accept a man who burnt a Koran as a refugee from Britain.
Not from Turkey. Not from Pakistan. Not from Saudi Arabia. Not from Iran. Not from Egypt. From Britain.
State department officials are preparing to help Hamit Coskun flee the UK if he loses a “blasphemy case” this week.
Would the prosecute someone who burned the Bible for ‘blasphemy’? Of course not. (In Britain!).
The potential intervention is likely to escalate transatlantic tensions over free speech, which critics have claimed is being eroded under Sir Keir Starmer’s Government.
‘Eroded’? ‘Eroded‘? How about ‘trashed’?
Mr Coskun sought asylum in the UK from his home country of Turkey, saying Islamic terrorists had destroyed his family’s life. He told The Telegraph that, if he did lose his case, he may be forced “to flee” and seek protection in the US.
“For me, as the victim of Islamic terrorism, I cannot remain silent. I may be forced to flee the UK and move to the USA, where President Trump has stood for free speech and against Islamic extremism,” he said.
“If I have to do so, then, to me, the UK will have effectively fallen to Islamism and the speech codes that it wishes to impose on the non-Muslim world.”
Successfully, it would appear. Words fail me….