The more I read about the Blair govt.’s law — currently still a Bill — banning incitement to religious hatred, the more appalled I am.

In the Spectator 6/25 issue (my mail order copy just arrived) two different writers point out that, though this Bill is widely understood as a Labour Party ploy for Britain’s large Muslim vote (which has been drifting away to the more ferociously anti-American, anti-Israel Liberal Democrats), several passages in the Koran will fall within its scope.

“‘They would extinguish the light of God with their mouths; but God seeks only to perfect his light, though the infidels abhor it.’ It is from the Koran, and the people insulted are Jews and Christians. The same passage also says: ‘The Jews say Ezra is the Son of God.’ As a generalization about Jews, this is clearly and insultingly untrue. Presumably things like this are said in mosques each Friday. Should the police be called?” (Charles Moore, op. cit.)

I wish I knew a little more about what gets preached in American mosques of a Friday.