UK DU'ers: Is the UK working on a new law that forbids hate talk against

[Deja Q]

religion?

I read this on a UK forum in response to a person comparing a sci-fi species' mentality to that of the fundamentalist Islamists: "Careful. Under proposed new legislation, even suggesting such a thing could land you in jail."

In other words, are there any laws being considered saying that you can't speak up against the acts of religious fundamentalists; and by doing so one could go to jail? (in America, despite the neo-Xian movement, I don't think that our sheeple would go along with it - but solely because of the 1st amendment. For now, anyway.)

[mr blur]

1. to outlaw incitement to hatred of people on the grounds of their religion"

which is not quite the same thing. It would, for example, apply to the equivalent of Freepers targeting for abuse someone in the street who was obviously a Muslim, or indeed a Jew.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1509183,00.html

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. See also a discussion in Religion and Theology

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=214x21551

and a commentary in The Observer today: A Gagging Order Too Far