Kept Out!

Back in December it was reported that the pastor of a Florida church with less than forty members and who had caused widespread contoversy by threatening to burn the Koran on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks had been invited to speak at an English Defence League rally in February.

I commented then that we had enough home-grown extremists of our own and that we didn’t need to invite any more into the country to stir things up. As it happened, the original invitation was withdrawn though another group, England Is Ours, popped up to issue an invitation for the man to speak at a rally next month.

Commonsense has been applied by the Home Office and the pastor has now been banned from entering Britain on the grounds that ‘Coming to the UK is a privilege not a right and we are not willing to allow entry to those whose presence is not conducive to the public good.’ That is absolutely right.

It is reported that the pastor is now promoting an ‘International Judge the Koran Day’ on March 20, which he said would put the Koran ‘on trial’.

Let’s hope he keeps this nonsense and the untold trouble it is likely to cause well at home in his own backyard of Gainesville, Florida.
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Keep Him Out!

A Florida pastor has been invited to the UK to speak at an English Defence League rally in February.

One wonders why the pastor of a church with less than forty members should be invited to speak but, of course, this is the man who achieved international notoriety for threatening to burn the Koran on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

It has rightly been said that extremism breeds extremism, and we have enough extremists of our own without inviting any more into the country to stir things up. So I for one would welcome a decision by the Home Secretary to keep this fellow out of it!
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