Hate speech is a slippery slope, it's ill defined and you grant an awful lot of power to the people who get to 'define' the term. A critique of islam could be

Hate speech is a slippery slope, it's ill defined and you grant an awful lot of power to the people who get to 'define' the term. A critique of islam could be considered 'hate speech'. On the other hand I do agree that calls for violence/murder should indeed be punishable and are also far better defined to be taken up as law.