"presence in the UK would pose a genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society. The Secretary of State is satisfied that your statements about Muslims and their beliefs, as expressed in your film Fitna and elsewhere would threaten community harmony and therefore public security in the UK."
Meanwhile Jacqui Smith seems perfectly happy to let Ibrahim Moussawi make yet another visit to the UK. That's Ibrahim Moussawi the former political editor of Hezbollah's television station, which is banned in many countries including France, Spain and the U.S. where its output is seen as anti-Semitic. Ibrahim Moussawi who wrote an article for the Daily Star in 2002 to explain the religious basis for suicide attacks. Ibrahim Mousawi who has also been reported in the New Yorker magazine as saying that Jews are "a lesion on the forehead of history".
Is Jacqui Smith saying that Ibrahim Moussawi is less of a threat to "community harmony and therefore public security in the UK" than Geert Wilders? If so is this because Jews will, as usual, accept the verbal attacks on them by the likes of Moussawi whilst Lord Ahmed "threatened to mobilise 10,000 Muslims to prevent Mr Wilders from entering the House"?
It is odd that the UK government of which Jacqui Smith is supposedly a senior member recognizes Hezb'allah as a terrorist group but is happy to let a spokesman for the group into the UK to give a lecture?
The more the British government accedes to the demands of one minority in the interests of "community harmony", the more members of other minorities and indeed the majority population may feel that the government is not acting in their interests. The more these feelings are allowed to grow, the more nasty the results may be.
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