incitement to religious hatred: the possible case of Peter Tatchell

Damian Thompson in the Telegraph offers some telling data and insights about how incitement to religious hatred sometimes comes to pass.  Could any educated person in good faith reject the corrections Thompson makes to Tatchell's "account"? The further question, then, is the source and motive for the misprepresentations Thompson calls out.  Any number of possible answers comes to mind, though some more than others.