[Campion]

A person who uses threatening words or behaviour, or displays any written material which is threatening, is guilty of an offence if he intends thereby to stir up religious hatred

(The text of the law in question.)

This from a country which has a whole national holiday devoted to stirring up hatred of the Pope, Catholics, and Catholicism.

[dr_lew]

This from a country which has a whole national holiday devoted to stirring up hatred of the Pope, Catholics, and Catholicism.

Well, I was guessing Guy Fawkes Day, and I guess that must be it ...

"Within a few decades Gunpowder Treason Day, as it was known, became the predominant English state commemoration, but as it carried strong Protestant religious overtones it also became a focus for anti-Catholic sentiment."