Muslim cleric let in by Cameron, banned by Brown

[Gromit]

A controversial Muslim cleric who was allowed to enter the country 5 times when the Tories were in power has been banned by Gordon Brown.

David Cameron was working as an adviser to Michael Howard in the Home Office when al-Qaradawi was let in.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7232398.stm

Thankfully, Gordon Brown's Labour Government has acted decisively and kept him out, and al-Qaradawi is unable to call for the execution of homosexuals as he did when Mr Major was running the country.

[brionon]

But--isn't Everything the fault of New labour ?

[tubeway]

I think that he is quite within his rights to say that homosexuals should be executed. Just as I think that you have the right to disagree. That is the problem with freedom of speech (leesened now by new-labour) that you have to put up with people saying things that you dont agree with.
So who is going to decide what a person can and cant say - Is it you? What are we going to do with the people that you disagree with?

[Gromit]

Hmmm brionon you may be right, it is a blow for Freedom of Speech for which this country is renowned the world over.

Let the evil mullah in Brown you dictator!

[ludwig]

Good. That's one less tw&t in the country. Every little helps.

[Ethel]

He was last in the country in 2004, when Labour were in power when Tony Blair let him in - Michael Howard demanded to know why he hadn't been refused entry.


He was a guest speaker at the Mayor of London's function -Ken Livingstone.

I don't quite know how you are making this an anti-Tory issue.

[jno]

I suppose the archbishop of Canterbury will be backing him, though.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,22 54075,00.html

I must admit this is rather alarming for those of us inclined to snigger when whiffey claims the country is about to be taken over by sharia law.

[China Doll]

Just me that's amused by the Dandy Brown's Gentlemens grooming ad over there >>> then?

(Sorry Groms, I'll leave you lot to the serious stuff now).

[Gromit]

China Doll

The ads are automatically generated by google. It looks for keywords in the posts and tries to match with an ad. So if you were to reply "don't teach your granny to such eggs you patronising berk" you'd get an ad for Granny Browns eggfarm in Berkshire. Or suchlike.

[jno]

well, I've got an ad for singlemuslim.com (seriously), the UK's leading Muslim marriage service

[China Doll]

Oooh, me too.... Well it is near valentines day I guess.

Well done Groms, apparently you're aiding spreading love and personal grooming which is much nicer than sucking eggs I think!

[honest_joe]

When in Britain they should obey British laws. If they want to practrice Shariah law go to a country that practices it. These troublemakers should be kept out at all costs.

[flip_flop]

Gromit has been strangely quiet about Ethel's post!

[Gromit]

flip_flop/ethel

Everyone knows Ken is a nutter. He was exiled from the Labour Party until 2004. al-Qaradawi was a strange bedfellow even for him. It upset many of Ken's allies.

http://www.galha.org/briefing/qaradawi.html

David Cameron tried to make this a party issue last week. In the Commons he claimed...

"He was banned by a former Conservative Home Secretary (Michael Howard), so why won't the Government ban him?"

But challenged on BBC2 TV about al-Qaradawi, Mr Howard admitted he had allowed him in.
The Politics Show's Andrew Neil said:

"Al-Qaradawi wasn't banned from entering Britain at the time you were Home Secretary, indeed he visited the UK five times while you were Home Secretary."
Mr Howard replied: "Indeed."

Mr Neil then asked: "Why did you let him in?"
Mr Howard said: "That's a very good question. I've no recollection of that and I can't remember."

All of which was very embarrassing for the opportunist Cameron and Howard, so I wasn't going to mention it.

[tigerlily11]

What I find most offensive is the fact that he was coming over here to get medical treatment. The nerve of him.
Quite happy to tell any prawn who'll listen that the west is evil and we must be distroyed but doesn't mind using us when he's not well.
Typical two faced cleric.

[jno]

Medical tourism is quite big business, and I dare say his money's as welcome to doctors as anyone else's. (He won't have been using the NHS.)

[tigerlily11]

Private or otherwise its the freedom of the west that has made it possible to research and establish the treatment he wants. It is that self same freedom that he and his ilk preach against. Without it we would be back to leeaches for everything.
Just one other thing, if he was going to go private then why is he coming here. The self same treatment is available in Switzerland, Sweden and many other places in Europe.