Mohiussunnath Chowdhury attacked cops with a sword while screaming “Allahu akbar,” and he was just found not guilty after explaining that he didn’t mean to hurt anyone. Meanwhile, British police are hunting for a real criminal: a man who was heard on a train speaking of his “dislike of Muslims.”

It would be great if everyone liked everyone else, but that isn’t the way the world is. Are people in Britain who speak of their “dislike of Christians” or “dislike of Jews” hunted by police in Britain? Somehow I doubt it. But when it comes to Muslims, clearly the freedom of speech in Britain is a thing of the past.

“Officers investigating hate crime search for loud man who talked of ‘dislike of Muslims’ on train from York to Leeds,” by Joe Cawthorn, Yorkshire Evening Post, December 20, 2018: