A couple of interesting letters in the Guardian, from Lord Avebury and Liz Fekete of the IRR, replying to Timothy Garton’s Ash’s article on Dutch right-wing politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the proposed new law against incitement to religious hatred.
Avebury points out that the article “wrongly implies that Ayaan Hirsi Ali and others like her who robustly criticise religious beliefs, customs or sacred objects would be silenced by the racial and religious hatred bill”. Fekete argues that “for ordinary Muslim women, who face daily abuse for wearing the hijab, the ‘thoughtful, calm’ Ayaan Hirsi Ali is more provocateur than liberator”.