Posted on 01/10/2024 6:39:37 PM PST by RandFan
Sir Kier Starmer has come under fire for representing a notorious hate preacher in court.
The leader of the opposition represented Abu Qatada at a hearing in 2008.
While he was a leading KC (King's Counsel) barrister, Starmer was one of a number of human rights lawyers who represented Qatada in hearings.
Sir Keir’s spokesperson has told The Telegraph that it was his job as a lawyer to represent people he doesn't agree with and has described the allegations as "desperate attacks from a Tory party that has given up on running the country."
Qatada arrived in the UK on a false passport in 1993 and was granted asylum a year later.
In 1995, he issued a fatwa saying it was justified to both kill Muslims who renounce their faith and kill their families. Four years later he made a speech in which he effectively issued another fatwa advocating the killing of Jews, including children.
The Telegraph reports that in the 2006 hearing, Starmer argued a technical point of law as part of long-running proceedings in which Qatada tried to resist both deportation and imprisonment.
Sir Keir had argued that hearings concerning secret material being used against Qatada should be held in public. He added that Qatada’s civil rights, including the right to receive state benefits, were incorporated into English domestic law.
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If only he had instead focused on killing whites and Christians, no one would be calling him a "hate preacher."
We are watching western civilization commit slow suicide right before our eyes.
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That’s how it works. You may not agree with your client’s stance, but it is your DUTY to do your best to defend him, no matter how reprehensible.
6UK deports radical cleric Abu Qatada to Jordan
Yahoo ^ | July 7, 2013
Posted on 7/7/2013, 10:14:35 AM by nuconvert
Radical Muslim preacher Abu Qatada was deported early Sunday from Britain to Jordan to face terror charges, ending over a decade-long battle to remove a man described as a key al-Qaida operative in Europe.
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In 2008 there were no KCs (King’s Counsels), only QCs (Queen’s Counsels).
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