Christian Preachers face arrest for handing out leaflets !

Preachers handing out leaflets in Birmingham UK were told the faced arrest for HATE CRIMES! if they carried on because the area has a heavy muslim population!

The evangelists say they were threatened with arrest for committing a "hate crime" and were told they risked being beaten up if they returned. The incident will fuel fears that "no-go areas" for Christians are emerging in British towns and cities, as the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, claimed in The Sunday Telegraph this year.

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What the hell ? hate crime for handing out a leaflet ? They faced threats of violence and the Police threaten them with arrest ? in the UK ?


Last time i checked no one could be arrested for handing out a leaflet. If you don't like it throw it away or don't accept it !

I wonder if i can get the muslim preachers in Oxford arrested for hate crimes because they preach and have a stand about islam and hand out leaflets there ?

A sad world we live in, and a blatant abuse from the police. Seems like every one has rights apart from Christians who can be threatened at will and with impunity.

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Reading the rest of the story seems to suggest it's more about a cop who can't separate a country's government from it's people, and who uses their religion as a cop-out(pun intended) to threaten them.

Sounds more like a politically motivated incident than religious to me.

Though it would be nice to see what the fliers said(at least in America, Christian evangelists CAN be pretty un-Christlike[to say the least] in trying to get others to convert, especially dealing with Muslims).