Criticism of RELIGION must not be criminalised in a secular state.

This petition is needed because the government is set on a course of action that could by default censor the British public's ability to openly examine or criticise a religion. This governement is creating a council that would draw up an official definition of ‘Islamophobia’ of which the next step would be the potential to impose a blasphemy law. A secular society cannot allow critique of a religion to be branded as hate speech or racism. The government must protect free speech, not censor it.