Posted on 03/10/2008 5:47:42 AM PDT by forkinsocket
The UK's Home Office has banned Likud central committee member Moshe Feiglin from entering Britain.
A letter sent to Feiglin from the office of Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, and published in this week's Jewish Chronicle, says the minister has excluded him from the country, even though he had no plans to visit.
"I am writing to advise you that following the London bombings in July 2005, the home secretary announced a list of particular activities that would normally lead to a person being excluded or deported from the UK on the grounds that their presence in the country is not conducive to the public good," the letter reads.
The unacceptable activities listed in the two-page letter include "writing, producing, publishing or distributing material; public speaking including preaching; running a Web site and using a position of responsibility" to "foment or justify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs; seek to provoke others to terrorist acts; foment other serious criminal activity or seek to provoke others to serious criminal acts and foster hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the UK."
The home secretary concluded that Feiglin should be "excluded" from the UK on the grounds that his presence "would not be conducive to the public good."
According to the Jewish Chronicle, the Home Office would not elaborate on why or how the decision was made. The letter did, however, cite a number of extracts from Feiglin's articles.
In an extract from an article posted on the Arutz Sheva Web site, Feiglin is quoted as saying: "In order to declare that we are right, we have to declare war. It's not the Arabs who are murdering mothers, but those merciful people who gave weapons to the murderers. It's not the Arabs who are burning babies, but the peaceniks who recognized the justice of the Arabs' cause. It's not the cruel people who are bombing us, but the merciful people who showed them mercy. War now! A holy war now."
In another extract, on the Israel Science and Technology homepage, Feiglin is quoted as saying: "The basis of Islam is not the quality of mercy, but of justice. If Christianity bridges the gap between sin and morals by automatic benevolence and absolution (that over long periods were sold by clergy), Islam does this in a far simpler way. It abolishes both benevolence and morals - their holy Muhammad is strong, cruel and deceitful."
These comments brought the leader of the Likud's dissident Jewish Leadership faction "within the scope of the list of unacceptable behaviors," the letter read.
"It is considered that you are seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the UK," the letter added.
There is no right to appeal the ban, but such decisions are reviewed every three years.
Feiglin told the Jewish Chronicle: "This is all very strange, because I have no plans to visit Britain either in the short or the long term. I have never been banned from anywhere else, in fact I am giving a lecture in Canada at the end of this month."
Earlier this month, British authorities granted permission to Ibrahim Mousawi, chief foreign new editor for Hizbullah's Al-Manar television station in Lebanon, to enter the UK to participate in a number of political events.
Accused of anti-Semitism and incitement, and recently banned from entering Ireland, his television station aired a 29-part "documentary" in 2004 in which it depicted stereotypical Jews hatching a plot for Jewish world control and domination.
Following the 9/11 attacks, Al-Manar alleged that 4,000 Jewish employees did not turn up to work at the World Trade Center that day and that the attack was masterminded by Israel.
Unbelievable. Britain has reached another low. They deny Zionists entry but submit to hordes of Islamic radicals of all brands.
Boy have they got a surprise coming ~
I bet they wouldn’t ban the President of Iran.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Try again.
We have stopped many extremist Islamics from entering.We have also banned racists like Farakhan and Duke.
If this man is an extremist, then good to banning him.An extremist Zionist is still an extremist.
An extremist Israeli.
A bigot is a bigot,’God’s chosen people’ or not...
And Muslim extremists are not welcome, stop cherrypicking.
There is a marked difference insofar as Zionism, even in its most militant form, is not an enemy of Britain in particular or the West in general. Militant Islam has been hostile to the West for many centuries. While the British government is certainly in its rights as a sovereign nation to ban whomever it pleases from entering their country, the equation of militant Zionism with militant Islam is erroneous.
...but not this guy.
“Earlier this month, British authorities granted permission to Ibrahim Mousawi, chief foreign new editor for Hizbullah’s Al-Manar television station in Lebanon, to enter the UK to participate in a number of political events.
Accused of anti-Semitism and incitement, and recently banned from entering Ireland, his television station aired a 29-part “documentary” in 2004 in which it depicted stereotypical Jews hatching a plot for Jewish world control and domination.
Why not? Does Britain support the terrorist organization Hizbullah?
Really?.
The dead British soldiers and British, Arab and Jewish civilians who were the victims of the likes of the Irgun and the Stern Gang in 1940’s Palestine.
Ok, old example, and I get your general point,I simply wish any extremist kept out, and I couldnt care less that they are Jewish, as if that gives them a pass somehow.
Really?.
The dead British soldiers and British, Arab and Jewish civilians who were the victims of the likes of the Irgun and the Stern Gang in 1940’s Palestine beg to differ.
Ok, old example, and I get your general point,I simply wish any extremist kept out, and I couldnt care less that they are Jewish, as if that gives them a pass somehow.
No, and I was annoyed that Britain allowed him in, Id agree with you on that.
So an “extremist” Zionist is to you the same as a radical Islamist. Interesting... you go lengths to defend your governments foolishness. Moral equivalence gone deep end.
1—Basically yes.
It is of course extreme Islam we have a problem with at the moment, but frankly mate, we British have been fighting terrorists since the days of the Fenians in Canada in the 1860’s. And it was Jewish terrorists who murdereds dozens of innocent civilians and British servicemen in Palestine in the 1940’s.
Islam is ‘just another enemy for us’...Hitler, Communist terrorists, the IRA, Bin Laden, the next one,the one after that...
We target them, we kill them. Clinical, no hysteria.
Sorry if it offends you that I as a decent human being dislike ANY zealot, bigot and extremist, irrespective of race, religion or politics.
Why should we let him in?.’Cos he Jewish. And Israeli?.So what?. What exactly in his background should give him a ‘pass’?. We have the right to refuse entry to anyone we choose.
2—I think this decision is sound, however as I stated to another poster, I have opposed allowing in a few Muslims I consider haemongers and bigots.
3—I detest the current British govt,mate.
Being Jewish or Israeli should give no one a pass. Britain has active enemies at this time, such as the IRA and Muslim terrorists, and it would make no sense to allow their supporters into Britain (although many IRA members are British citizens). The Irgun and Stern Gang no longer exist and pose no threat to your nation’s safety. You would be hard pressed to think of any hostile action taken by Israel toward British interests in the last half century. However, if Britain wants to foreign rabble rousers out, e.g., Louis Farrakhan or David Duke, that is her business.
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