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naomi24 | 06:58 Wed 17th Jul 2013 | News
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A Muslim terror fanatic banned from Britain for being a threat to national security has been given legal aid in a bid to win a UK passport.

Tory MP Douglas Carswell said: “Foreigners must think we are mad. We use taxpayers’ cash to allow people who want to defeat us on the battlefield fight us in our courts.” I agree with him.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/5015438/Fanatics-legal-aid-in-bid-for-passport.html#ixzz2ZHczgNwT
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If he is a convicted terror fanatic, then no. If he is only a "suspected" terror fanatic, then why not? Like LG, I'd want to know more about this person before I answer.
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//legal aid should be for appealing against seemingly arbitrary decisions like the one mentioned//

What? Like the decision to ban him from the country because he’s a threat to national security? I would have thought that had already gone through due process of law.
: “Foreigners must think we are mad. We use taxpayers’ cash


He should have added and a soft touch after 'mad'.
Of course he should.

This is a similar case.

// Mohamed and Kaltun Hashi, the parents of the 23-year-old care worker from Camden, North London, became concerned for his safety after being tipped off that in the summer he had been taken to a prison in the African state of Djibouti while visiting neighbouring Somalia.

The Mail on Sunday has established that while Mr Hashi was out of Britain, Home Secretary Theresa May used a little-known power – which does not require a court order – to deprive him of all his rights as a British national.

It can also be revealed that Mrs May has issued at least another nine orders against British nationals. The majority have been served on Muslim men, although the most public case is that of Russian spy Anna Chapman, who had been married to a UK national.

The deprivation of citizenship order signed by Mrs May says Mr Hashi has lost his rights to live in the UK because of the ‘public good’.

Mr Hashi has not been told of what he is accused, nor is it clear whether he knows he is no longer a British citizen.

The only justification Mrs May has given for removing Mr Hashi’s citizenship is his alleged involvement in Islamic extremism. But his family say he has never been interested in any kind of extremist behaviour. //

So without any court or any charges, a British Citizen can have their citizenship cancelled on the whim of the Home Secretary. She does not reveal who has been cancelled and does not give any evidence. This is very counter the British Legal system, and of course such wielding of a draconian power should be challdenged in the Courts.
// At least five of those deprived of their UK nationality by the Coalition were born in Britain, and one man had lived in the country for almost 50 years. //

So THEY were taxpayers, until their removal.
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The Home Secretary cannot remove citizenship if it will make an individual stateless, so the orders can only be made against dual-nationality individuals.



I'm sure that she must have her reasons, probably national security.
////no he shouldn't, why should the taxpayers be asked to foot the bill, will he simply end up as another Abu Qatada, that would be stupid in the extreme.////

Don't you think we need another one as the one before has been deported?
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Gromit, your first link is from the Mail on Sunday (shock horror!) – and your second states // However almost nothing else is known about the most recent deprivation cases.//

Just goes to show you can’t believe everything the Mail says …. but I thought you knew that. ;o)

//So THEY were taxpayers, until their removal.//

We’re they? What did they do for a living?
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Gromit, correction. Your first wasn't a link - it was a bit of copy and paste.

Keyplus, so the British Government is recruiting again?
Naomi ////B00, good question. There seem to be a lot around like that.////

Yes, and for a very simple reason. How many Afghans came here for assylum before Afghanistan was attacked by USA & CO? Not many.

And how many since then? obviously too many. Because if we are saying that taliban ar ekilling people then what is wrong in few thousand afghans in agreeing with us and turning up here. easy assylum as we are the ones who said that in the first place and they are only agreeing with us. Another story is that soon after getting a british passport all these people catch first available flight to go and visit the same place that they said was dangerous for them.

He is no longer a British Citizen yet we are funding his appeal
For funks sake . . . WHY?
C'us were mugs, Baldric.
"He is no longer a British Citizen yet we are funding his appeal "

Presumably because it is the loss of his citizenship which is the issue at stake.

He is no longer a British Citizen,
What do you not understand in that sentence?

He is no longer anything to do with us!
Gromit.....difficult:

"Damned if she does and damned if she doesn't."

Does one wait for a "terrorist atrocity" to establish robust evidence or does one go on unconfirmed intelligence before acting.

What would you do as home Secretary?
OK, I'll just put it a different way then:
The reason he isn't a British citizen is as a result of the action he is questioning. That fact alone seems reasonable enough to me. Otherwise it's an unfair Catch 22 sort of situation.

Unfortunately because we know nothing about him it's very hard to comment further.
Could he not just apply for an Afghan passport? If it's only for international then that will do the job nicely.
There, all solved now let's have his erky on the next plane to somewhere hot and dusty.

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