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Have the police gone barking mad?

A man’s best friend is his dog, unless you are a Muslim councillor in Scotland who found this advertisement so offensive he complained, received an apology, and was assured that no ‘unclean animal’ would feature again in such a campaign. Is this what the Lord Chief Justice had in mind when he advocated Shari’a law in the UK? Cranmer was not going to bother commenting on this ridiculous story. He is acutely aware that such absurdities are driving most British Muslims to distraction. They are of the view that some of their British co-religionists are among the most intolerant in the world. The tolerant and sensible Muslims happen to believe that Britain’s accommodation of such people is appeasement and offensive to British identity and culture. But now one police story has been overtaken by another of such startling absurdity... [read full story]                    

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