Is It Wrong To Make Light Fun Of A Belief System?

[agchristie]

British gymnast lands himself in hot water but what of his 'crime'?

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/10/must-freedom-mock-islam/

[Khandro]

Gormyless: I see you have only joined the madhouse today, well welcome, but there are other sections more benign. If you shy away from conflict better keep out of 'Politics' and 'Religion and Spirituality'.
Try 'Home and Garden' or 'Chatterbank' etc.

[hereIam]

Wow.

[Ellipsis]

Smith almost certainly did not mean to post the video publicly online. User error.

Once he did, he became liable to censure by British Gymnastics, not because criticising or mocking Islam is illegal (it isn't) but because it's inconsistent with team spirit, when you may have Muslims in your team.

As for Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadan Foundation, saying ‘Our faith is not to be mocked, our faith is to be celebrated’ - he can say what he likes, it's a free country, and you might expect him to be disappointed with mockery and propose a more suitable (in his opinion) alternative. You don't have to take any notice of him though, if you don't want to, precisely because it is a free country!