Waleed Ali, page-54

Eagle I think your definition of hate speech can be clarified further.

Simply expressing the fact that you hate a whole class of people is not hate speech. This is because you are not attacking them - just expressing something about yourself.

Hate speech is when you ATTACK a class of people, or certain people who belong to that class based on their membership of that class. So if I say "I hate all French men", that is not hate speech. If I say "French men are so up themselves thinking they think they are God's gift to women" then THAT would be hate speech, albeit relatively mild.

Likewise "I hate fundamentalist Christians" is not hate speech. "Fundamentalist Christians are stupid and a blight on our way of life and should either renounce their beliefs or be exiled to Antarctica" is hate speech of a more potentially harmful and inciteful nature.