As Islamists Protest, Hezbollah Spokesman Barred from UK
Last week the Royal Anglian regiment was met by a mob of Islamist protestors as they paraded through the streets of Luton, back from serving in Iraq. Their protestors’ placards were printed with slogans denouncing the soldiers as baby killers, rapists, and terrorists. Two people were arrested, though these were not from the group of Islamists, but from those who had taken offense at their jeers. True to the “multicultural” ideology, those arrested were charged with “racially aggravated harassment,” though race was obviously not a factor – except in the minds of the police.
No absolute right or wrong exists as far as Britain’s “intellectuals” and government is concerned. Equality under the law and freedom of speech are now relative. The country has lost its moral compass to an ersatz morality in which everything must be considered within the context of race. Where there isn’t one, one must be invented. Not only has this shattered any sense of nationhood (which was certainly the intention of the Left), but it has broken the law, and pushed aside reason itself. Who except the authorities could think that those who were offended by protestors calling their friends, husbands, wives, sons, and daughters, “baby killers” and “terrorists” could in fact be motivated by racist feelings?
No doubt some Leftists really believed that multiculturalism would lead to the eradication of racism, and thus to a modern, harmonious society. But, fused with Islamism, at least, the veneer cunningly disguises an ideology has very similar aims to historical fascism, most especially to destroy the West, and destroy the Jews. The moral relativity that was on display at Luton, in which British soldiers were denounced as “terrorists,” is turned even against the latter target.
In a stunning twisting of history, Leftists – in league with Islamists – portray the Jews as “fascists.” Mike Rosen on the Socialist Workers Party online says, for example, “To argue against there being a state run solely by and for Jews is not anti-Semitic. It is a classic anti-racist, multiculturalist view.” When, of course, it used to be the fascist view. (And, note, this philosophy doesn’t apply to a “free Palestine,” i.e., a homogenous Islamist state under the violent rule of Hamas.)
Of course Britain and the US are also attacked by the Left and the Islamists. Hence we have seen also the Bush administration and the British government denounced as “terrorist governments,” etc.
Yet, only in January did Britain experience pro-Hamas demonstrations, along with a sharp rise in anti-Semitic violence. By the end of these protests, a video showing a considerable number of police running scared of a group of Leftist and Islamist protestors was being circulated on YouTube, and was even featured in The Daily Mail. The more recent Luton protestors, it appears, were members of the extremist and anti-Semitic al-Muhajiroun organization, which reemerged as the Islam4UK group after being banned – and which, true to form, compares British soldiers to “Nazis” on its website.
And although it has attracted very little comment, it also came to light recently that British lawmakers have met with officials of Hezbollah and Hamas in the Middle East over the last two years. According to Conservative Party MP Michael Ancram, who was involved in the meetings, although these talks were unofficial, former prime minister Tony Blair was aware that they were occurring, and did not request that they stop. Blair has not been available to comment, though Ancram has said that he is “[…] pleased that contacts with Hezbollah have begun.”
However, since the barring of Geert Wilders a few weeks ago, the British government has been under intense pressure to prevent Dr. Ibrahim el Moussaoui – who has called the Jews “a lesion on the forehead of history “ – from entering the country, although he has visited the country on previous occasions. Moussaoui is a former spokesman for Hezbollah, and a former head of al-Manar Television, which serialized the rabidly anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Clearly, he has no interest in portraying terrorist organizations in anything but the most flattering light.
The Daily Mail published several articles pressuring the government over Moussaoui, and the issue has been taken up with particular gusto both in the British media more broadly and the US media. Moreover, on the sixth of March, Douglas Murray, Director for the Centre for Social Cohesion, wrote [pdf] to the Home Secretary to express the organization’s concern at Moussaoui application to enter the UK. Moussaoui was scheduled to lecture to government and high ranking police officials, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London – according to a spokesman for the school – so that they would “[…] understand more clearly what makes Hezbollah tick.” The British civil servants were ready to pay £2,000 each to hear the Islamic extremist.
Murray’s letter to the Home Secretary highlighted Moussaoui’s unholy career, and went on to say:
We remain deeply concerned that the United Kingdom government finds it acceptable that an individual who incites hatred against the Jewish people and of Israelis should be permitted to enter. It is the position of the Home Office that individuals are banned from entry into the United Kingdom if ‘they stir up tension and provoke others to violence.'
Dr. el Moussaoui would threaten community harmony and clearly breach this condition. We would be grateful for a full answer as to why this policy is not being applied to Dr. el Moussaoui in the light of recent exclusions of other non-nationals seeking to enter the United Kingdom.
If Dr. el Moussaoui arrives in the UK we will instruct counsel to seek a warrant for his arrest.
Last month, Britain’s Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, barred Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch Parliament, who had been invited by British colleagues to address a meeting in the House of Lords, from entering Britain because he was classed as someone likely to incite hatred and threaten “community harmony”.
Barrister Paul Diamond, an expert in religious affairs law, was asked to seek a warrant for Moussaoui’s arrest from a magistrate on using war crimes legislation and a legal precedent from 2004.
The Home Secretary has now decided to bar Moussaoui from entering the UK [pdf]. But only, we should have no doubt, because the pressure has been enormous, and has caused the British government a great deal of embarrassment already.
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