'We're going to challenge it!' Free Speech chief vows to block any public authority using a back door 'anti-Islamic blasphemy law'

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Lord Toby Young has vowed to challenge "any public authority" attempting to use anti-Muslim hostility, branding the policy a "back door blasphemy law".Speaking to GB News, the founder of the Free Speech Union declared that the "assault" on free speech, particularly online, has become a "global phenomenon".Sitting down with GB News's Will Kingston at the Arc Conference, Lord Young said: "I think the assault on free speech, particularly online, is a global phenomenon, and seems to be particularly true of the English-speaking countries, Commonwealth countries, and the United States."There are lots of different reasons for it.

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But I think fundamentally, since the ebbing away of the Christian tide, we have a new religion occupying the public square, a new public morality, and it is the woke radical progressive ideology we're all familiar with." TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Lord Young recalled a successful legal challenge by the Free Speech Union against South Wales Police, after...

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