U.K.: WILL FURTHER STEPS BE TAKEN TO PROTECT ISLAM ?!?

UK Considers Amending Hate Laws

LONDON — Britain's racial and religious hatred laws may need reform after a court cleared a far-right leader for the second time this year over a speech in which he called Islam a "wicked, vicious faith", ministers said Saturday, November 11.

"Any preaching of religious or racial hatred will offend mainstream opinion in this country and I think we have got to do whatever we can to root it out," the Chancellor (Finance Minister) Gordon Brown told the BBC.

"If that means that we have to look at the laws again, I think we will have to do so."

Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party, was found not guilty on Friday of inciting racial hatred during secretly filmed speeches in 2004.

Griffin, 47, and BNP worker Mark Collett, 26, were cleared on Friday of using words or behavior intended to incite racial hatred by a jury at Leeds Crown Court in northern England.
They were cleared of similar charges at a trial in February.

Griffin was charged after the BBC secretly filmed a speech he gave in 2004 during which he told supporters Islam was a "wicked, vicious faith" that was turning the country into "a multi-racial hell-hole".

Collett repeatedly called asylum seekers "cockroaches."

Griffin maintained throughout the trial that his comments were not racial and were designed to stir his audience to political activity.

Reassuring Muslims

Constitutional Affairs Secretary Charles Falconer said the country had to show it would not tolerate attacks on Islam.

"If you say Islam is wicked and evil and there is no consequence from that whatsoever, what is being said to young Muslim people in this country is that we ... are anti-Islam," he told the BBC.

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New religious laws on the horizon for Great Britain...The reason?!? To protect islam of course...

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