On 20 June, the Chaplain-President was honoured to attend the conference "The contribution of Muslim leaders to combatting hate speech", organised by the Conseil Musulman at the Ministry of Justice buildings. Two panels of distinguished guest-speakers discussed salient issues such as: how to define hate speech, the relation between hate speech and violence, the tension between free speech and hate speech, how religious leaders can contribute towards lessening the evil effects of hate speech. We thank the Ministry of Justice for hosting this event, and our friends Esma Uçan and Michaël Privot at the Conseil Musulman for organising such an interesting and important conference.