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The Muslim News
Press release http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/index/press.php?pr=201 Labour prepared to use
Parliamentary Act on religious hatred Labour is prepared
to overrule any opposition in the House of Lords from the Conservatives and
Liberal Democrats, in order to pass legislation against the incitement to
religious hatred, if it is re-elected for a third term next month, The Muslim
New has learnt. 'Yes we will
use the Parliament Act' Home Office Minister Fiona Mactaggart told the
paper’s Editor, Ahmed J Versi, when asked how Labour would ensure that it
kept to its manifesto pledge after failing twice to enact the law in the last
parliament. Mactaggart, who
was attending her party’s manifesto launch to the ethnic media on
Wednesday, confirmed the intentions of Labour for a second time when questioned
for a second time to clarify any doubts. “It
remains our firm and clear intention to give people of all faiths the same
protection against incitement to hatred on the basis of their religion. We will
legislate to outlaw it and will continue the dialogue we have started with
faith groups from all backgrounds about how best to balance protection,
tolerance and free speech,” she said quoting from Labour’s
manifesto. The Parliament
Act, which reduces the power of the House of Lords in delaying legislation to
one year, has been used three times by Labour in the past four year out of a
total of only four times since it was amended in 1949. On Tuesday,
Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, wrote to mosques across It came after
Muslim leaders expressed their outrage at the government for dropping the
clause as part of its Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill to pass the rest
of the legislation through parliament, warning that it could have further
implications for Labour’s vote at the election. It was the
second time that the government sacrificed plans to legislate on the new
offence after an earlier attempt was also sacrificed as part of a compromise
deal to rush through emergency anti-terror legislation at the end of 2001. Please acknowledge
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