I really didn’t believe this would happen. Yesterday the UK officially banned both Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller from entering the country and thus participating in an EDL event as invited speakers. Robert wrote this on his website:
Britain capitulates to jihad:
In a striking blow against freedom, the British government has banned us from entering the country. Muhammad al-Arifi, who has advocated Jew-hatred, wife-beating, and jihad violence, entered the U.K. recently with no difficulty. In not allowing us into the country solely because of our true and accurate statements about Islam, the British government is behaving like a de facto Islamic state. The nation that gave the world the Magna Carta is dead.
Unfortunately I had to retrieve his post using Google’s cache because his website has been taken down by a DDOS attack:
Left-fascists & Islamic supremacists desperately afraid that people will hear the truths I tell, have now taken down http://t.co/Zbf9DvQwc9
— Robert Spencer (@jihadwatchRS) June 27, 2013
Fortunately Pamela Geller’s website is still operational. Here is what she wrote about being banned:
I have been banned in Britain. My crime? My principled dedication to freedom. I am a human rights activist dedicated to freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and individual rights for all before the law. I fiercely oppose violence and the persecution and oppression of minorities under supremacist law. I deplore violence and work for the preservation of freedom of speech to avoid violent conflict.
I have never been convicted of any crime. I have never been arrested. I became a writer and activist in the wake of 911.
For this I am banned. I shed no tears. I am banned from Mecca, too.
The Home Secretary said that my being in the UK was “not conducive to the public good.” Banning those who speak in defense of freedom is “not conducive to the public good.” It is painfully apparent that the action of the British authorities will have the opposite effect of what they had intended. They have lit a fuse. And instead of allowing a respectful laying of flowers in memory of Lee Rigby on Armed Forces day, they have given rise and sanction to poison like this (below).
Our banning is like a patient on life support refusing medical treatment.
Below is Robert Spencer discussing being banned from the UK with Michael Coren: