July 15, 2005

British Muslim leader barred from U.S.British Muslim leader barred from U.S.

British Muslim leader Sheik Zaki Badawi said Friday he had been refused entry to the United States without explanation.
[How disingenuous for him to pretend that he doesn't know why...--Jen]
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A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it had information that led to Badawi being deemed "inadmissible."
     
The British government announced Thursday it would consider the automatic exclusion of extremists who were banned overseas, as part of a raft of measures designed to keep "preachers of hate" out of the country.
     
Badawi, who is also a leader of the Council of Mosques and Imams, is considered a moderate who appeared with fellow British faith leaders, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, on Sunday to deliver a joint statement condemning last week's "evil terrorist" attacks on London.

Thank God the British decided today to adopt our blacklist for their green and (before 7/7) pleasant land:
US militant blacklist to apply in Britain
[Note how the Lefty Australian uses the word "militant" instead of terrorist. Pathetic.]

ISLAMIC extremists denied entry to the US would be automatically banned from Britain under anti-terror measures outlined yesterday by Tony Blair's Government.

Home Secretary Charles Clarke plans to prevent Muslim figures such as Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Tariq Ramadan entering Britain if they have been barred from the US or other European Union countries.

Dr al-Qaradawi, who backed Palestinian suicide bombers, was controversially invited to London last year by the Mayor, Ken Livingstone.
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The Home Office is also preparing a package of measures to tackle terrorism and extremist clerics. The Government is renewing efforts to reach agreement with North African countries to deport suspect terrorists and troublemakers there.

Under human rights laws, Britain cannot deport anyone to a country where they might be subject to inhuman or degrading treatment. The cabinet agreed that it was vital to secure agreement with North African nations such as Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.

Whitehall sources said any agreement would have to be at the highest level to satisfy the Government and judiciary that deportations would not lead to any risk of inhuman treatment.

Mr Clarke is also looking at ways of tightening controls on asylum-seekers and those with "indefinite leave to remain" in Britain, including prohibiting encouragement of terrorism. Those who breach conditions would lose their right to stay.
[Like Abu Hamza (Captain Hook), preacher of Islamist hate at the now closed Finsbury Park mosque in London?]

Under existing laws, Mr Clarke can deport anyone given indefinite leave to remain in Britain if their presence is not in the "public interest". He can also strip a person of British citizenship, but only for treason and other activities against the interest of the country, and then only if it would not make the person stateless.

Britain is going to have to quit being silly while they're still bringing out corpses of last week's bombings from the Underground;
the UK needs to worry a little less about being the champion of human rights and worry a lot more about the human rights of their own citizens!
Better to let N. African governments do their magic on terrorists to interrogate and incarcerate jihadi killers, if the Brits are too squeamish or too riddled by multiculti-guilt to deal with these killers the way they must be dealt with!
Granted countries like Egypt are supposed to have real gulags, but then wouldn't you rather have a key bad guy--to wit, the scumbag who is thought to have built last Thursday's bombs-- put in an Egyptian jail than protected by mollycoddling British law on British soil?