We can’t have people coming over here and speaking freely, can we?
The Home Secretary is understood to be considering a request to ban two of the people behind a campaign against New York’s “Ground Zero Mosque” from entering the UK.
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, who are among America’s most notorious anti-Muslim campaigners, have been invited to speak at an English Defence League rally in Woolwich to mark Armed Forces Day and the death of Drummer Lee Rigby. But the chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee Keith Vaz has written to Ms May expressing his concern and labelling them “incendiary speakers”.
Keith Vaz is a nasty, vile, authoritarian little shit. And if she follows his demands, so is Ms May.
“We believe in freedom of speech and the rights of people to hold and express different views. However, in a democracy there have to be limits on people abusing these freedoms to incite hatred and we believe that Geller and Spencer are seeking to do just that.”
Whenever someone says “we believe in freedom of speech” and follows it with a “however” or a “but” they really mean that they believe nothing of the sort.
Still, can’t be saying naughty things about Muslims, can we? Might offend them.
Nor do we stop nasty muslims coming into the country, that would be just plain racist. Stopping white people coming in is never racist so the government are free to do it all the time. So we allow extremist muslims to stir up hatred because it’s never racist for them to do it, only for whites.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/19/saudi-preacher-mohammad-al-arefe_n_3465941.html
h/t Old Holborn
“Nor do we stop nasty muslims coming into the country”
I think you’ll find that quite a few Muslim extremists have been refused visas for coming into this country.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
We let religious hatemongering supremacist filth and terrorist funders like Raed Salah into the country, who are openly and loudly fêted by Labour Party MPs and other public figures as though he is somehow noble rather than the savage that he is so I don’t see what the problem is with anti-Islam campaigners (like Geert Wilders or Spencer/Geller) who categorically and forcefully reject anti-Muslim violence of any and every kind and who stand up for free speech for all.
They’re both very welcome here. Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs are well worth reading.
They’re not ‘anti-Muslim’, they’re anti-Islam, anti-jihad-by-the-sword, anti-Sharia, anti-bigotry, anti-hate, anti-religious supremacism and pro-civilisation.
“They’re both very welcome here”
When did you acquire the authority to speak for every single person in the country?
Where did he say that? Oh, that’s right, he didn’t.
Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller have been banned from entering the UK. See here and here.