We have had to wait an – as David Davis called it – ‘unconscionably’ long time for the police to get round to it, but they have finally arrested some of the incediary Islamists who were protesting so outrageously against the cartoons last month, as the BBC reports today.
It is, sadly, unlikely that the offending extremists – guilty of incitement to violence and murder – will be prosecuted. The police force’s evasive procrastination is typical of their approach towards Muslim extremists: the strategy is one of deferral until the issue is forgotten.
You won’t hear this often, but I recommend having another look at an article by Christopher Hitchens, written at the time. His point is that freedom of speech is paramount – that it is Denmark we should be protecting, not the enraged Islamic umma.