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I don't accept that the anti-Semitism smear was inadvertent but I do accept that you regret it and I thank you for that.

I have not claimed that you are a race-baiter (the reference to race-baiters is related to the point that race-baiters and bigots use similar tactics) but I have said you are a bigot and you are promoting bigotry. I don't withdraw that because it is very clearly established. You have presented Muslims as a severe threat to the Western societies that they live in. You have accused them of being responsible for a level of severe criminality much beyond other groups in the community. You have indicated, inadvertently, that they are weak-minded and have a diminished capacity for independent thought. I could list other matters but I don't wish to labour the point. If these views are not systematic and thoroughgoing bigotry then the concept has no meaning.