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Hate cleric allowed into UK(championed by Galloway, of course)
The Sun (U.K.) ^ | July 16, 2006 | GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON

Posted on 07/16/2006 12:17:32 PM PDT by Stoat

 
Galloway ... rallying with cleric
Galloway ... rallying with cleric
 

Hate cleric allowed into UK

By GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON
Political Editor

 

A RADICAL Muslim cleric who claims Britain DESERVES suicide bombings has been allowed in the country by ministers.

 

The Foreign Office gave twisted Delwar Hossain Sayeedi a visa saying he “does not meet the criteria for refusal”.

And today he will join an East London rally with Respect MP George Galloway.

After the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, Sayeedi said: “Britain and America deserve all that is coming to them.”

He has also declared: “So what if the Taliban is destroyed? The war against America will continue.”

He has stoked up violence on previous visits to Britain. Five Bengali elders were beaten up in Oldham, allegedly by his followers.

Yet the Foreign Office refused to keep him out. And Mockbul Ali, the Foreign Office’s Islamic issues adviser, says his radical views SHOULD be heard.

Last night Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: “This totally undermines Tony Blair’s claims to be tough on those who incite terror and hatred.”

Sayeedi’s speeches have also inflamed violence worldwide. One is thought to have led indirectly to a bomb attack against the British High Commissioner in Bangladesh.

Another could have led to the stabbing of moderate Bangladeshi author Humayun Azad in February 2004. He died six months later.

He has also made statements calling for war against Britain and the US. Leaked emails show other Foreign Office advisers warning against him coming.

One, Eric Taylor, wrote: “Sayeedi has made a particularly offensive comment about Bangladeshi Hindus, comparing them to excrement. Previous visits to the UK have been reportedly marred by violence caused by his supporters.”

But Ali — whose salary is met by UK taxpayers — warned refusing his visa could backfire.

He wrote: “He is someone who has a very big following in the mainstream British Bangladeshi Muslim community and is viewed as a mainstream Muslim.

“Any steps taken on his exclusion from the UK must take that into account.”

Sayeedi is set to take part in the launch of a social housing project for Bangladesh in East London. He is also expected to visit the huge East London Mosque during his stay.



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The Sun Online - Sun Says Shut up Jacques

 

Ban this beast

YET again Britain extends the hand of hospitality to a ranting Islamic madman who glorifies suicide attacks on us.

Bangladeshi cleric Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, who says we DESERVED the 7/7 atrocity, has been allowed to enter the country for a rally alongside vile George Galloway.

The Foreign Office’s “Islamic Issues” adviser Mockbul Ali insisted he should be heard.

Tony Blair said after 7/7 that “the rules of the game have changed”. Harsher measures were needed.

So we now have new laws against glorifying terrorism.

But why allow Sayeedi this golden opportunity to break them?

Why not just ban from our soil anyone with a track record of backing terror?

 


1 posted on 07/16/2006 12:17:36 PM PDT by Stoat
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More on this story from the Times:

Islamist hardliner heads for Britain - Britain - Times Online

Islamist hardliner heads for Britain


 

Advisers wanted cleric banned but his visa was not revoked

 

A HARDLINE Islamist cleric who government advisers wanted banned from Britain is scheduled to fly to London this weekend to attend events alongside Muslim community leaders.

The Home Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office considered excluding Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, an MP in Bangladesh who preaches violent hatred against the West and is accused of war crimes, last year. But despite a series of e-mail exchanges in September, his visa was never revoked and the Home Office issued no exclusion order.

The Foreign Office’s Islamic issues adviser accused Mr Sayeedi’s detractors of being politically biased and said that his exclusion could jeopardise support from mainstream Muslims for the Government’s anti-terrorism agenda.

Mr Sayeedi was last in Britain weeks after the July 7 bombings. Tomorrow he is scheduled to visit a housing fair at the London Muslim Centre, part of the East London Mosque. The mosque’s chairman, Muhammad Abdul Bari, is the newly elected leader of the Muslim Council of Britain. Mr Sayeedi is then due to attend a rally in a nearby park alongside the MP George Galloway.

In leaked e-mails seen by The Times, the Home Office sought advice from research analysts in the Foreign Office while considering the case for excluding Mr Sayeedi.

Internal messages between advisers discussed the threat that he allegedly posed, and one attached a report from a Bangladeshi human rights organisation. The report quotes Mr Sayeedi as saying that Britain and the US “deserve all that is coming to them” for overturning the Taleban in Afghanistan.

The e-mail from one adviser, Eric Taylor, continues: “He [Mr Sayeedi] has made a particularly offensive comment about Bangladeshi Hindus, comparing them to excrement. He also appears to defend attacks against the Ahmadiya (Islamist) community.

“. . . Previous visits to the UK have been reportedly marred by violence caused by his supporters. In 2000, during one of his talks in Oldham, his supporters reportedly attacked and beat up five Bengali elders.

“A rally in Banglatown was also attacked and three people, including a 65-year-old, were injured. A Bangladeshi community group wrote to the Prince of Wales in June 2004 appealing for Sayeedi to be banned from the UK.”

However, Mr Sayeedi’s case was defended by Mockbul Ali, the Foreign Office’s Islamic issues adviser, who voiced “extreme concern” about the political bias of sources being used to criticise the MP.

Mr Ali wrote: “Websites of groups with a clear agenda/bias is not the way to prove exclusion [if a case does indeed exist].”

Despite admitting that Mr Sayeedi was ultra-orthodox and held views “we would not endorse in any way”, Mr Ali then added: “He is someone who has a very big following in the mainstream British Bangladeshi Muslim community and is viewed as a mainstream Muslim figure.

“Any steps taken on his exclusion from the UK must take that into account, especially at a time when we require increasing support on the Prevent/Counter Terrorism agenda from British Muslims.”

Mr Taylor responded that the file against Mr Sayeedi was “thoroughly referenced” and disputed whether the exclusion of an extremist cleric would endanger support from mainstream Muslims.

He added: “In the Prime Minister’s words, the rules of the game have changed. What may have been tolerated pre-7/7 is no longer the case.”

However, despite his strongly worded response, no further action appears to have been taken by the Government.

Murad Qureshi, a member of the London Assembly and the Metropolitan Police Authority, criticised the Government’s inaction. “I’ve been saying since the late 1990s that it doesn’t help to have characters like him passing through Britain,” he said.

“The anguish he causes in the Bangladeshi community is not productive and his visa should be revoked. There are some very serious allegations over his head about war crimes.”

The e-mails are contained in a document published by the Policy Exchange think-tank. They were leaked to Martin Bright, political editor of the New Statesman and presenter of a Channel 4 documentary, Who Speaks for Muslims?, which will be shown tonight.

Channel 4 was contacted by the Foreign Office and asked not to name Mockbul Ali, but refused because it said that the Government department “had not substantiated its claim” that Mr Ali’s safety would be at risk.

When asked why Mr Sayeedi was allowed into Britain, a spokesman said that he could not comment on leaked documents.

He added: “We understand the concern expressed over Mr Sayeedi’s visit to the UK. Mr Sayeedi’s visit is not at the invitation of the British Government nor do we plan to have any contact with him while he is here and the fact that Mr Sayeedi is here is in no way a signal of support for him or agreement with the views he espouses.”

A spokesman for the Home Office said it would not comment on individual cases.

No one from the East London Mosque was available for comment.


2 posted on 07/16/2006 12:18:00 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat

The evolution of Lodonistan continues.


3 posted on 07/16/2006 12:19:48 PM PDT by ozoneliar ("The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants" -T.J.)
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To: ozoneliar

When will the British ever learn?


4 posted on 07/16/2006 12:22:51 PM PDT by MissEdie
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"When will the British ever learn?"

Only when it's too late. I wonder when we're going to learn?
We have our future being played out before us in Europe.


5 posted on 07/16/2006 12:24:22 PM PDT by Peisistratus (O xein angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti tede...)
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To: Stoat
The Foreign Office gave twisted Delwar Hossain Sayeedi a visa saying he “does not meet the criteria for refusal”.

What must one do to meet that criteria, be a card-carrying member of Al Qaeda? (Although I doubt that would even do it).

6 posted on 07/16/2006 12:24:30 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: ozoneliar
The evolution of Lodonistan continues.

 

But Ali — whose salary is met by UK taxpayers — warned refusing his visa could backfire.

He wrote: “He is someone who has a very big following in the mainstream British Bangladeshi Muslim community and is viewed as a mainstream Muslim.

I feel so very sad for our sane British Friends.....they are surrounded by Islamofascists whose only desire is to kill them and yet their leaders let them down every step of the way.

7 posted on 07/16/2006 12:26:33 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat
And today he will join an East London rally with Respect MP George Galloway.

Difficult to say who Galloway despises more: Jews, the U.S., or (non-Islamist) England.

8 posted on 07/16/2006 12:26:40 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: MissEdie
When will the British ever learn?

Hopefully before it is too late.

9 posted on 07/16/2006 12:28:38 PM PDT by ozoneliar ("The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants" -T.J.)
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To: Mr. Mojo
The Foreign Office gave twisted Delwar Hossain Sayeedi a visa saying he “does not meet the criteria for refusal”.

What must one do to meet that criteria, be a card-carrying member of Al Qaeda? (Although I doubt that would even do it).

A person would most likely have to be suspected of having negative thoughts against Islamofascists in order to be barred from entry, it seems.

10 posted on 07/16/2006 12:29:30 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Galloway is a nobody. He has always supported those who are against the UK state: From Irish to Islamic terrorists and Iraq and the old USSR.


11 posted on 07/16/2006 12:29:51 PM PDT by Jack2006
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To: Peisistratus
We have our future being played out before us in Europe.

That's a keeper.

12 posted on 07/16/2006 12:31:14 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: Stoat; All
“Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.”

— Kingsley Amis, Stanley and the Women.

13 posted on 07/16/2006 12:31:29 PM PDT by dighton
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To: Peisistratus
Welcome to Free Republic, by the way.
14 posted on 07/16/2006 12:32:49 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: Churchillspirit

"Welcome to Free Republic, by the way."

Thanks.


15 posted on 07/16/2006 12:33:48 PM PDT by Peisistratus (O xein angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti tede...)
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To: Stoat

16 posted on 07/16/2006 12:34:33 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Democrats are guilty of whatever they scream the loudest about.)
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To: Jack2006

"Galloway is a nobody. "

Considering he's talked openly about what a great thing it would be to see Blair assasinated and sides with people who have threatened to assasinate the Queen (of course, so does Prince Charles), he ought to be facing the Queen's justice for treason to the crown. That is, if this was a just world.


17 posted on 07/16/2006 12:37:33 PM PDT by Peisistratus (O xein angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti tede...)
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To: Peisistratus
assasinate = assassinate
18 posted on 07/16/2006 12:40:04 PM PDT by Peisistratus (O xein angellein Lakedaimoniois hoti tede...)
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To: MissEdie

please don`t always judge the people of a nation by the idiots that govern it !!!!!!!


19 posted on 07/16/2006 12:40:10 PM PDT by goldcrest (" one good turn deserves another ")
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To: Stoat

Two short pieces of rope and two nice tall trees are all the reception necessary for Sayeedi and his Saddamite lover Galloway.

Let 'em swing until sunset, then cut down the bodies for the buzzards.

With complimentary Zantac appetizers and Pepto Bismol chasers for the buzzards, of course.


20 posted on 07/16/2006 12:42:26 PM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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