5 pillars too many

Headline:

John Cleese doubles down as Muslims try to get him arrested for his comments about Islam

Remember when it was stuffy conservatives who didn’t like “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” and its stars? Ah, those were the days.

No, seriously. Those really were the days, because whatever John Cleese and Co. endured from the establishment in the 1970s and 1980s, at least they weren’t trying to drag him into court. Not so much with the British left, which is now in thrall to radical Islamists.

…The hardcore Muslims are hopping mad. The problem is that in Merrie England, there’s not exactly robust protection for free speech — and now, one prominent Muslim group wants the law to intervene.

5 Pillars, an Islamist activist outlet in the United Kingdom, reported that there was a “referral to the government’s counter-extremism scheme Prevent concerning comedian John Cleese” because he made fun of Muslims.

Why so it did.

A referral to the government’s counter-extremism scheme concerning comedian John Cleese alleges that he has engaged in a sustained pattern of online activity which “demonises, dehumanises, and collectively attributes violence and criminality to Muslims and Islam.”… pic.twitter.com/4JOvgPTUpu

— 5Pillars (@5Pillarsuk) September 30, 2026

Right and that’s bad because Islam is not at all violent in the slightest ever under any circumstances.