The thing is that Gray didn’t even originate these jokes. He just reposted them. And the jokes all have aspects of truth to them. Islam really does allow for child marriage, and Sharia-adherent Muslims, who might be more likely to avoid bacon than Muslims who ignore Sharia, are more likely to take the Sharia allowance for child marriage seriously as well. And yes, British authorities have been outrageous in handing over free stuff and top-quality hotel lodging to Muslim migrants. The fact that it is criminal for Gray to point that out is yet another symptom of Britain’s deep and likely mortal crisis.
“Blasphemy law is back, says ex-policeman fined for offensive posts,” by Will Bolton, Telegraph, August 15, 2026:
When Stephen Gray, a retired police officer, was told he would be charged with a criminal offence for sharing posts online that were critical of Islam, his first concern was not for himself….
He said: “I guess some of the posts may have been in bad taste. Some of them may upset one or two people, but I didn’t think for one second it would be cast as grossly offensive by the police, the Crown Prosecution Service and by the courts. Not for one second.”
Gray was charged over the reposting of two allegedly offensive images.
The first had the words “time for mass deportation” alongside an image of a Middle Eastern man, who was in his late 20s or 30s, and the words “Children in Need”.
The image had the caption “12-year-old Mohammed recently arrived at Dover. Please donate to help him move from a three-star to a five-star hotel which has a better halal menu, free wifi and Sky and is nearer to a girls’ school”.
The second image was a picture of a rasher of bacon and a man in a turban alongside the caption “Fun facts about Bacon!” People who eat bacon have a lower chance of marrying a 9-year-old!”
Ultimately, the district judge who tried his case ruled the first post was not grossly offensive and it related to a political issue that had been debated in Parliament.
The second image, however, resulted in a conviction. The judge ruled the post was not political; it was about religion, and it was grossly offensive.
‘I made a joke’
Giving evidence during the trial, Gray pointed out that he had not made the images himself but had simply reposted the images along with thousands of other people.The posts had not been directed at any individual and the person who complained about it to police in the first place, was a non-Muslim neighbour of Gray’s, with whom he had previously had an unrelated disagreement.
Gray said: “I made a joke, an ironic joke, about Islam. That is all it was at the end of the day. A joke. I certainly never, not for one second, thought it would be deemed abusive.”
After being found guilty, Gray, who is appealing against the decision with the support of the Free Speech Union (FSU), was also ordered to pay more than £1,000 in fines and costs….
Lord Young of Acton, general secretary of the FSU, said: “Prosecuting people for making jokes about Islam, particularly if they contain a kernel of truth, is a new low.
“No one making a similar joke about Jesus would face prosecution. Blasphemy laws were abolished in England 18 years ago and should not be resurrected by the courts and applied to just one religion.
“If Labour wants to make it a criminal offence to offend Muslims, but not Christians, Hindus, Sikhs or Buddhists, Andy Burnham should include that in the next King’s Speech. Good luck getting it through parliament.”….
Tony says
Islam is a fraud! Islamic Law is totalitarian and censorious where there are NO EQUAL RIGHTS UNDER THE LAW for women, children, and Non-Muslims. More importantly, Islam is a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise against all Non-Muslims. Public funding is a privilege that should not be granted to organizations that are against the US Constitution. Islam is against the US Constitution for funding, teaching, and promoting discrimination, segregation, violence, and terrorism. Islam’s Muslims are murderous, Totalitarian Terrorists of Allah operating as a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise under Islamic Law to ultimately conquer the enemies of Allah, the Non-Muslims, with Islamic Law DBA Islam(Qur’an 8:60; 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.). Genocidal Allah in Qur’an 8:39 commands, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” Ultimately, Allah desires to fill hell with Non-Muslims(Qur’an 7:18; 11:119; 32:13; 98:6, etc.).
David Rasch says
Islam is a desert tribe’s rationale for conquest, murder and slavery. If you don’t believe their religion of peace they will kill you.
LibertyORdeath says
Can you imagine if they applied this same standard to criticism of Christianity or Judaism?
Half of the UK government would be guilty.
Maria V says
ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,
Billy says
If you have to pick up your 3rd wife, who is also your Aunt from your Grandfather’s 5th wife, at Jefferson Elementary, you just might be a Muslim.
James Lincoln says
Those you cannot mock or criticize rule over you.
Sarprina81 says
Muslims and Transgenders cough cough.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, James.
Rufolino says
“If you want to know who holds power over you, look for the people you may not criticise.” (Voltaire.)
gravenimage says
+1
Rob R says
The judge and police who did this if youre reading this, you’re all massive spastics..
please fuck off to New Zealand or something thanks
somehistory says
Really, ust a *devout’ muzzie
“Extremist convicted of preparing acts of terrorism”
“A man who attempted to join the so-called Islamic State (IS) has been found guilty of preparing acts of terrorism.
Mohamed Mohamoud, who was born in Somalia but moved to Bristol in 2020, previously admitted that he flew back to his home country in January 2025 and tried to join the terrorist organisation as a “martyr”, but failed to reach the group because of ongoing UK counter-terrorism operations.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/extremist-convicted-of-preparing-acts-of-terrorism/ar-AA2ap6vr
Westman says
No one hates truth more than a failure and the EU governments, when it comes to admitting the effects of Muslim migration are absolutely expressing VERITOPHOBIA (this is a real defined word).
Veritophobia – “is the fear of truth or the hesitation to admit or recognize something as true. This fear often stems from concerns about offending others or facing accountability.”
“Veritophobic”, would be a natural derivative.
It should be obvious that the rulers want nothing in common with the average citizens – England in particular, where court-elites invented the term, “Working Class”, and their most basic driving force was to not be in it.
The French elite were in denial about themselves until they saw the visage of the guillotine. What will the UK elite face should the “kingdom”, after much tribulation, survive Islam?
Tim gallagher says
The evil age where big brother is watching all of us, that’s for sure. This protection racket that is being run for rotten, evil islam and it’s cult members truly is insane. Muslims who slaughter huge numbers of people and destroy so many lives with their rape gangs can’t be mocked in jokes. Islam is extremely evil and deserves no protection. It should be banned from all non Muslim countries. That is what it deserves.
Sarprina81 says
You can say that again. The idiotic left can call me an Islamophobe all day.
Islam has a large body count of victims that only a fool would ignore.
Tim gallagher says
Yes, sarprina81, it is staggering and extremely annoying that almost everybody with a functioning brain hasn’t woken up by now and seen how evil islam is. Islam is so obviously evil that it deserves to be treated like the filthy garbage that it is.
abu taleb says
It shouldt say ““12-year-old Yeshua recently arrived at Dover. Please donate to help him move from a three-star to a five-star hotel which has a better halal menu, free wifi and Sky and is nearer to a girls’ school”. Who will feel offended? Pick your answer
a. The Jews
b. The Christians
c. The muslims
d. The Labour party
My answer is c and d, even though it literally offends the Christians (because it uses the name Jesus) and the Jews (because Jeshua is a Jew name).
So, if one wants to make some joke about Islam or muslims, s/he should use some words that may not connected to Islam at all, but every body knows it is targetted to Islam so the left authority can not do anything.
Beans🫘 says
Good luck finding a date in the UK.
Six in 10 women said they couldn’t date someone who disagreed with them on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Ship them to the grooming gangs. That’s probably the only place they’ll find a man that matches all their policies.
gravenimage says
If I was looking, he could give me a call.
Beans🫘 says
lol
Something is seriously wrong with the zeitgeist in Britain and the west in general.
Let me switch it up a little. I would bet my bottom dollar they would not care if the man hated Britain, it might even be a bonus. But they’re so brainwashed by Islamists that they have become Hamas militants mentally. How can you care about this country that much?
The women in UK are too protective of Muslims in general not just Palestinians. I have seen the same overprotecting mother instincts when it comes to Iraqis and other Muslim countries. But nothing much about their own country.
Women are usually the first to betray their homeland. When the conquering Muslim army comes, the women just leave and join a new household.
gravenimage says
The claim that women just embrace invading thugs and have no values themselves is false. See my post about my mother and aunt, below.
The Left is the problem says
Who elected the district judge to sit in moral judgement and decide that the joke “People who eat bacon have a lower chance of marrying a 9-year-old” was grossly offensive and on what criteria did the judge decide that the joke was grossly offensive?
If 60% of the populace found it amusing and 40% found it offensive, would the views of the minority prevail.
gravenimage says
UK: Ex-policeman fined $1,355 for sharing jokes about Islam online
…………………………………………….
So now is it illegal in the UK to *criticize child rape*. Just sickening.
rick martin says
How did this come about? Does the police monitor police personal remarks and then send police to arrest this cop or did someone make a personal complaint by seeing the jokes? And if that is so, then how did he or she see the jokes in the first place? Too bad the police do not conduct as good surveillance on Muslims plotting all sorts of bad things to do to us infidels.
Bean🫘 says
Socialism in in charge over there. They are protecting their voters (who are growing population) and they want more of them to arrive on the beaches. The muslims demand results to trade their votes on.
Conservatives in UK, they get no results. In fact, more Muslims came to the UK under conservatives than libtards. “Boriswave”.
The government is doing their job, that is looking out and delivering for their important voters, the Muslims. A government is supposed to listen to the people who put them in. And the Muslims want special treatment.
somehistory says
It’s “grossly offensive” that so many scummy slugs and thugs can buy little girls for rape…and call it “marriage.”
And in my view, scummy slugs and thugs don’t deserve to eat bacon.
The real men in the U.K. should take up a collection and help this guy pay his fine.
Martin Hanson says
How about this for a social media comment:
STONING FOR ADULTERY IS PRIMITIVE, 7th CENTURY BARBARITY
ANYONE WHO DOES NOT CONDEMN STONING HAS NO PLACE IN BRITAIN,
AND SHOULD LEAVE THE COUNTRY
IF YOU ARE OFFENDED BY THIS, GOOD!
Beans🫘 says
They will never go against their religion. Islam wants to win out in Britain long term with a population strategy. They’ll will never denounce anything in their kuran or their Islamic tradition.
They’re there to destabilize you first, and then take over later as patriotic British die off and Muslims keep storming the shores and then bringing their grand pa for you to take care of.
gravenimage says
+1
David Rasch says
The Britain that defeated Nazism has lost to communist tainted moslem world domination.
gravenimage says
Grimly true. My mother and aunt joined the British army as young women and both survived the London Blitz. My grandfather was a police superintendant and head of the local Home Guard (“Dad’s Army”). I cannot imagine what he would think of this suicidal madness.
Beans🫘 says
I can only imagine how weaker they will be in 20 years. They’ll simply all surrender to migrants. The british English identities will disappear, as will their weak little church. But Islam, it isn’t interested in weakness. They stand strong and push the English backwards and keep taking.
A Muslim just won the special election for Eric swallswell seat just now. Another Afghan, won by 30 points against a pro Israel candidate. All she does is talk about Palestine and a supposed genocide….. hook line and sinker for the idiot Americans .
gravenimage says
So your reply to British heroism is a demand to surrender.
J.R.R. Tolkien said, “Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not”.
You do not just believe you see the end, but perversely want to ensure that it is as ugly as possible. Not me.
Beans🫘 says
I must be missing this British heroism. Maybe it’s the coast guards, who change the Muslim migrant diapers on the beaches when they wash up every day in record numbers. It must be them.
David Rasch says
That generation was led by Churchill. Sadly now there are no Churchills the socialized Brits will follow.
a says
If you dont have a sense of humour then it just aint funny…
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Can somebody please excavate the jokes that he shared, and share them here? Let us be the judge of how offensive it was 😈
Billy says
If you place the winning bet on Wednesday night while out with your Kabul University-Afghanistan friends to win a date with a 9-year old Dancing Boy dressed as a Girl, you might be a Muslim.
If you have to pick up your 3rd wife, who is also your Aunt from your Grandfather’s 5th wife, at Jefferson Elementary, you just might be a Muslim.
gravenimage says
Yep!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Billy
Those are hilarious! 😂🤣
jerry glenn says
Dhimmi Britain surges in the European Islamopandering derby
James C A Reid says
Was this the guy who made the Joke – it was put as Evidence of “Religious Hatred”, etc. ‘Eat a bacon Sandwich. It will stop you Marrying & having Sex with a 9 year old.” The Judge done him for mocking a Religion. No mention of any Religion here.
The Judge, Prosecution & his Defence Lawyer should all have got a damned good slapping for frivolous Prosecution. , wasting Court Time etc.
It is happening in UK & has been for a number of years – criticise Islam & your ass is nailed in Court hard.
Yet, Muslims 100% GUILTY of Rapes, Bestiality, Paedophilia etc. No doubt – they did it – even their own Admissions, forensics etc. – GUILTY. Walk FREE or, a 6month suspended Sentence. Loads of examples across UK & the Authorities try to suppress it happening.
Sharon Lee Kowalski says
I wish people like him would show what islam (ie: koran, sunnah, sharia and even their nasty ‘prayers’) say about us and it isn’t a joke!!!!
Namer says
Thank God for our Constitution! Nowhere in it does it say you are protected from being offended.