In The UK: Proposed Laws Threaten Free Speech

The British parliament considers new laws in reaction to violence threatened over a Sikh play in Birmingham. “The fact that we have to be free to outrage one another is potentially in conflict with a law that soon will be put to the Commons that would add ‘incitement to religious hatred’–punishable by seven years in prison–to the equally dubious legislation already on the British books banning ‘incitement to racial hatred’.”