A Christian police officer in the United Kingdom has reached a settlement with a county police force who suspended him after he expressed concerns over radical Islam.
Luke Salmons, who formerly worked as a community support officer for the North Yorkshire Police, sat in several diversity, equality and inclusion training sessions, in which race, religion and culture were discussed. External trainers and police personnel led the sessions, in which open discussion and questions on challenging topics were encouraged.
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During one session centered heavily on Islam, the trainers began walking up and down the aisles, chanting, “Islam is a religion of peace,” Salmons said. Salmons told Fox News Digital that the session “kind of stopped being a training course and became more of something like indoctrination really.”
During another session, Salmons was instructed by a police sergeant who was Muslim. Salmons asked for the sergeant’s opinions on the war in Gaza, and on Islamist terrorism and Hamas as well as his thoughts on jihadism. According to Salmons, the discussion was respectful yet robust. The sergeant invited Salmons to discuss his questions further over coffee. Two days later, Salmons was suspended. In a meeting, an inspector told him “I don’t like your beliefs” and stated that she did not want him on the team, Salmons said.
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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Hannah Davis and originally published by Decision Magazine.
