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Racial and Religious Hatred Bill

: I think Dr. Siddiqui supports what has been called the Lester amendment. I invite my hon. Friend to comment on the points made by the right hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Frank Dobson). Under that amendment, offences not already covered by the public order offence of incitement to violence would be dealt with by extending race hate to cover the use of religious words as a proxy for race hate. It would also deal with the problem of discrimination between religions, as Sikhs and Jews would be covered under race hate by the fact that theirs are mono-ethnic religions. Does not the Lester amendment deal with all the points that the right hon. Gentleman raised?