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linkMinisters are considering whether race hate laws should be revised after BNP leader Nick Griffin was cleared of charges relating to speeches he made.
A jury decided speeches by Mr Griffin and party activist Mark Collett in 2004 had not incited racial hatred.
Home Secretary John Reid said he would consult ministers after Gordon Brown said current laws may need reviewing.
Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer said Muslims were offended and must be sure that the law would protect them.
But Lib Dem MP Evan Harris said tighter laws could create "extremist martyrs".
Mr Griffin, 46 and from Powys, had denied at a retrial two charges of using words or behaviour intended to stir up racial hatred .
If having fascists being allowed to go around stiring up hate is the cost of free speech then so be it.
And on the front of forfeiting secularism to give legal protection for fantasy
What sort of doublespeak is that, show that the country isn't anti-Islam without compromising freedom and then turn around and punish people for saying that Islam is a wicked and evil faith.Lord Falconer later told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions? that the government had to show young Muslims that Britain was not anti-Islamic.
"We should look at them in the light of what's happened here because what is being said to young Muslim people in this country is that we as a country are anti-Islam, and we have got to demonstrate without compromising freedom that we are not," he said.
He said there should be "consequences" from saying Islam is "wicked and evil".
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