Is it now a crime to tell the truth?

THREATS have been made by the Minister for Justice, Mr McDowell, and the gardaí, that Anjem Choudary, who happens to be Muslim, should be prosecuted or investigated for ‘incitement to hatred’.

This is because he told a meeting of the TCD Philosophical Society that Ireland could be a terrorist target in view of "the Shannon stopover taking troops to Iraq."

Is it now a crime to speak the truth? Mr Choudary was quoted in the press as saying this "was not a position of neutrality."