That’s what prime-ministerial candidate Edward Miliband is advocating, free speech and English legal traditions be damned. Soeren Kern explains:
Miliband’s renewed promise to make “Islamophobia” (a term he has not defined) an “aggravated crime” may signal an attempt to turn the 2006 act [prohibiting incitement to violence against particular racial or religious groups] . . . into a full-blown Muslim blasphemy law. . . .
Miliband is currying favor with Britain’s three million-strong Muslim community to “prop up Labor’s urban vote.” Muslims are emerging as a key voting bloc in British politics and are already poised to determine the outcome of local elections in many parts of the country.
Read more on Gatestone: http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5665/uk-islamophobia-ban