https://www.scotsman.com/regions/dundee-tayside/husband-discovered-ex-snp-councillor-s-racist-texts-to-wife-1-4672335

A guy is facing CRIMINAL PROSECUTION because, after the Paris terrorist attacks, he sent messages to his girlfriend (who was married to someone else) complaining about Muslims.

Her husband, pissed about his wife having an affair, gave the messages to the police.

Prosecutors say he [the boyfriend] behaved in a way “likely to cause a reasonable person fear and alarm” by sending a series of messages that “contained threatening, abusive and derogatory remarks regarding Muslims”.

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Hermes writes in a comment:

Yeah, it seems like they are going after him for the harassment/intimidation/threat angle because she’s Muslim. Don’t know why Lion chose to leave that out. Not that I think the guy should be able to get in legal trouble for this. The story still shows how the only way to continue having the freedoms and rights we’ve been taking for granted is to have a homogeneous society.

I think that’s a distraction from what actually happened. A guy sends to a women, with whom he’s having an intimate relationship(who’s cheating on her husband), a private message with his political opinions, and we see no evidence that she found it threatening. But then the husband finds it and gives it to the police because he wants to get the guy who stole his wife in trouble with the law in order to punish him. It’s not like he was actually concerned about his wife feeling threatened.

On the other hand, if the meaning is that it’s illegal to tell your political opinions to your girlfriend only if your girlfriend happens to be Muslim, then it’s really smart to not get involved with Muslims at all.