“Prominent Muslims – and others – would have incitement to religious hatred rendered an offence in law. The atheist who began this column remains an atheist and cannot, in conscience, support such a notion. Justice and God tend to differ on certain important points. Islamophobia remains a fact, for all that, and it amounts to a declaration of war against some fellow citizens of mine. If they are the enemy within, these days, then so am I, God willing.”

Ian Bell writing in the Sunday Herald, 5 September 2004