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Friday 10 February 2012

Closing the door on Geert Wilders

Good to see the Evening Standard supporting the ban on the latterday Leni Riefenstahl. Note the reference to Yusuf al-Qaradawi and the Nation of Islam:

Critics say that the ban has attracted more attention than would Mr Wilders' appearance had he been allowed to stay. While that is impossible to assess, what is certain is that he intended his visit to stir up trouble. Lord Pearson, the UKIP peer who invited him, must have realised that this would be the likely effect...  The Home Secretary's power to exclude foreigners whose presence could cause a threat to public safety is an important one. It has rightly been used to exclude the extremist Muslim preacher Yusuf al-Qaradawi: while he was unlikely to incite violence directly, his pronouncements would still have been deeply offensive and provocative to signficant ­sections of the community. Likewise the firebrand American leader of the black Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan. 

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