Kellie-Jay Keen faces criminal charges for criticizing Islam in England

Women's rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen is facing criminal charges for posting her views on social media. Keen has been outspoken about the rights of women and girls as regards legalizing trans-identified men as women under the law and has, of late, been vocal about the harms of mass migration to women, girls, and her native British culture.

In a post, she said that she had "received a letter from the Metropolitan Police for a notice of a criminal charge" over social media posts the police say are "grossly offensive." Her court date is scheduled for December 4 in Magistrates Court.

She spoke at a May Unite the Kingdom rally in London, organized by UK advocate Tommy Robinson, saying that Islam should not be taught or upheld in British classrooms and that the religious law that comes from Islam should have no place in British law. She was threatened with beheading.

On social media in June, she wrote that "We have Muslim fatigue," going on to list the reasons, including:

"We're tired of it," she said in conclusion. "Islam is a vile woman hating cousin marrying child rape appeasing death cult."

In August, she shared a recording of a phone call she received from the Metropolitan Police where they informed her she was under investigation over her comments.

Keen is being represented by The Free Speech Union. "In a free society, no religion or cultural practice should be immune from criticism," they said. "Since Labour came to power, the number of FSU cases involving people penalised for criticising Islam has doubled. It is now the single biggest category in our casework. And now, with a state-approved definition of Islamophobia — rebranded as 'anti-Muslim hostility' — things are only getting worse."

The Free Speech Union has been a vocal opponent of "blasphemy laws," which are essentially a way for the government to police speech that Muslims don't like. School teachers in the UK have gone into hiding after being threatened with death for showing images in class that depict the prophet Muhammad. Children have been disciplined and their lives threatened for accidentally dropping the Islamic Quran. Police guidance tells them to believe minorities over English people in cases of crime. Rampant, decades-long rape gangs were covered up by police who feared being called racist for prosecuting Pakistani men who drugged and raped English girls.

Keen stands up for her countrymen, expresses an allegiance to her own culture, a dislike of the new one being imposed, and she is being targeted for that by her own government. So too have protesters who oppose the government-orchestrated mass migration of Arab and North African men to the British Isles been targeted by the government while the migrants are given taxpayer-funded housing, food, and cash.

The Free Speech Union has launched a fundraiser to help them defend native British people from these alleged crimes. Keen is just one of those they are defending against this extreme government overreach.

"The Free Speech Union is no stranger to this kind of state overreach," they say in the fundraiser. "Earlier this year, we backed Hamit Coskun when he was put on trial for burning a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish consulate. He was initially convicted, but we helped him appeal and his conviction was overturned. The Crown Prosecution Service then appealed his acquittal and we defended him again. Again, we were successful."