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Racial and Religious Hatred Bill

: The hon. Gentleman has attempted to make a distinction between incitement to hatred on racial grounds and incitement to hatred on religious grounds, saying that we cannot change our race but we can change our religion. Does he not accept that in our society it is unreasonable that people should be so afraid that they feel the need to change their religion in order to escape the hatred incited against them? Are they not entitled to the same protection that they receive on the basis of their racial group?