Posted on 06/26/2013 12:07:08 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
Two prominent US bloggers have been banned from entering the UK, the Home Office has said.
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer co-founded anti-Muslim group Stop Islamization of America.
They were due to speak at an English Defence League march in Woolwich, where Drummer Lee Rigby was killed.
A government spokesman said individuals whose presence "is not conducive to the public good" could be excluded by the home secretary.
He added: "We condemn all those whose behaviours and views run counter to our shared values and will not stand for extremism in any form."
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Oh please, not piers morgan! Please! Puhleaaassseeee!
It so happens that an awful lot of Brits us disagree very fundamentally with this decision, which at best is encouraging a kind of intellectual apartheid - "against our shared values" indeed! What kind of justification is that?
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