While we are thinking about who ‘allows’ what, the British Government have announced that Dutch MP Geert Wilders will not be allowed to enter the UK, as his very presence will ‘threaten national security’.

The public debate appears to be focusing on this man’s right to speak his mind. Not much mention of the fact that his audience (in this case our own members of Parliament) are having their freedom to listen to him denied.

His presence here poses a threat to public order only if some people lack the self-control to respond peacefully to his message (a strong anti-Muslim one). So in effect the Government appear to be saying that our freedom to listen in person to a properly elected European politician is trumped by an irate minority who will threaten public order.

Whose norms run this country these days?

Maybe it would be better to focus on who really does harm to Muslims, as opposed to making obnoxious noises about them?

Who these days recalls the astounding Hama Massacre of 1983, when the Syrian regime killed many thousands of its own citizens to cow Islamist extremists who had murdered up to one hundred officials in a local show of strength? Thus:

“A doctor, welcome …” then he transferred Dr. al-Khani to the Borsalan detention center, where he was exposed to the most painful torture, despite the fact that he did not provide any emergency treatment or first aid to anyone at all, then the torturers told him: “Since you are an Eye Doctor, we shall poke your eyes off.” Indeed, they poked one of his eyes then killed him facing the firing squad.

Has a single person who took part in this horrendous crime against Muslims been prosecuted or banned from entering the EU or chastised by an EU Working Group?

Or banned from entering another Muslim country?

Any answers?

Long pause

No. I thought not.