I generally err towards freedom of speech when considering these sorts of things. However, I think The Seldom Killer has a good point. If everyone in Croydon walked up to this woman every day and asked her if she was a terrorist none of them would have broken the law, but her life would be made unbearably unpleasant and she would have no formal protection whatsoever. Maybe criminal charges aren't the answer, but it worries me that the perpetrators of this sort of low-level hostility rarely ever get any comeback worse than looking an idiot on the internet.
I generally err towards freedom of speech when considering these sorts of things. However, I think The Seldom Killer has a good point. If everyone in Croydon walked up to this woman every day and asked her if she was a terrorist none of them would have broken the law, but her life would be made unbearably unpleasant and she would have no formal protection whatsoever. Maybe criminal charges aren't the answer, but it worries me that the perpetrators of this sort of low-level hostility rarely ever get any comeback worse than looking an idiot on the internet.