In an open letter on Islam4UK's website, Choudary denied the march was "merely an act of incitement or provocation".
Mr. Foxman wrote to Columbia's president, George Rupp, calling Mr. Said's behavior "a crude, disgraceful and dangerous act of incitement" and saying that it warranted "clear repudiation and censure from the Columbia University community".
Kuwait's government, understandably, snarled back that this was more an act of incitement than an apology, and also noted that Mr Hussein had failed to mention the fate of the 600-odd Kuwaitis who have been missing since the Iraqi invasion.Mr Hussein's penitent posturing does seem to have had some effect at home, however.
While it must include an act of incitement, this can be both express and implied.
In his speech today, Mr. Levy said this and similar cartoons, comments and editorials were acts of "deliberate incitement" carried out by the official media of Arab countries to "spread poison and hatred for Israel".
We supported the new Equality Act and the offence of incitement to gay hatred, which should now be implemented.
"Why is publishing the caricatures of the prophet Muhammad a question of free expression and Dieudonné's act is incitement of racial hatred?" one asked.
"To have this kind of act, which is a pure result of incitement, of calls for 'days of rage', of just irresponsibility, is unacceptable," he said.
An outdated 1989 Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act, the country's main legal defense for victims of racism, has been used to win just one conviction a year, on average.
The only legislation at present in in Ireland that deals specifically with racially motivated behaviour is the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989.
