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Racial and Religious Hatred Bill

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord and I am sorry to interrupt him. He has spoken about the Muslim community as though there is just one single view. Does he accept that there is within the Muslim communities a great deal of concern adverse to the Bill? As I told the noble Lord before the debate, when I appeared for one hour on Islam Channel, a broadcasting network for 250,000 Muslims in this country and beyond, and expressed my opposition to the Bill, only one Muslim phoned in to express disagreement with me. Every other Muslim who phoned in expressed grave concern about the effect on Muslims. Is there not great diversity and concern among Muslims as well?