A Christian police community support officer lost his job for raising questions about Islam in a diversity training session.
Luke Salmons, 46, was dismissed from North Yorkshire Police and placed on a barred list following a conversation about Gaza with a Muslim colleague.
He successfully appealed against his sacking - but has never received an apology from the force. Mr Salmons has now opened up on the horror ordeal, which has raised further fears over free speech in Britain and police forces' diversity obsession in the wake of Henry Nowak's murder.
The father-of-two from Harrogate spent eight years in policing after two-decades in construction. He told The Telegraph on Friday: "I loved my job and I was good at it. I was well respected as a PCSO and my colleagues said they loved working with me and couldn't understand what was happening.
"But an overzealous inspector took against me and that was the end of my career, even though I had done nothing wrong." Mr Salmons described the October 2024 training day at Northallerton headquarters as "indoctrination".
"The whole day was pretty much about Islam. At one point the trainers walked up and down the room for several minutes saying 'Islam is a religion of peace' over and over again. It was bizarre," he said.
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