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This week, Hamit Coskun was found guilty of a religiously aggravated public order offence after he set fire to a copy of the Qu’ran outside the Turkish Consulate in London. The case has led to some lively debate about whether we are back in the days of blasphemy laws. Edward Stourton speaks to the National Secular Society’s Chief Executive, Stephen Evans, and Imam Shaykh Ibrahim Mogra. In the wake of the Assad regime’s fall in Syria, thousands of Alawites – a minority Shia Muslim sect historically linked to the former regime – have fled to Lebanon. The ��ѿ��ý’s Emily Wither has been to the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, close to the Syrian border – where  residents have opened community halls, mosques, and their homes to shelter the Alawite refugees. And two Brazilian nuns have gone viral after an impromptu beatboxing session on live TV. As beatboxing is a form of vocal percussion associated with hip hop music, it got us thinking about the connection between that genre and Christianity. So we turned to Dr Jamie Broad – a musician and academic researcher, who specialises in UK Christian rap. Presenter: Edward Stourton Producers: Dan Tierney and James Leesley Production co-ordinator: Paul Holloway Editor: Chloe Walker