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Racial and Religious Hatred Bill

May I take the Minister back to the question involving ““insulting””? He says—I think it is the Government’s position—that ““insulting”” will not matter because there has to be an intention to stir up hatred against the person on the basis of religion, but how will we distinguish the insult, which might be made recklessly against the individual practitioner, when someone is seeking legitimately to incite hatred against the religious practice? That is the central issue that the Government must grapple with. I have to tell the Minister that, at the moment, he seems completely to have failed to do that.