
Baroness Cox: The 'West,' Islam, and Islamism
Socrates in the City
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The Implications of the Incitement to Religious Hate Bill
It's called incitement to religious hatred legislation but he's bought in at the behest of the Muslim Council of Britain they tried to get it to parliament for the last general election. It was strongly opposed and just before a general election only uncontentous legislation can go through so that was obviously contentiousthey had to drop it. The subtext of that bill is threefold concern about inhibition on freedom of speech of fundamental freedom first it will be admitted that it will limit freedom of speech, second police have been warning people who've been using John West's tradition of preaching in public that this could cause offense. Third limitation is one which is actually got a lot of our intelligentsia and our writers
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