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Britain: a no-free-speech zone.

 US bloggers [Ed: "bloggers" is of course a putdown, a way to demean published authors] banned from entering UK http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23064355"Entertain views that conflict with the dominant...

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FFS sake. This is not a good indicator of the state of discourse in the UK. I fear for the homeland of my ancestors.

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You can say anything you like as long as you're a muslim, but you can't criticize islam in any way, shape or form. That gets you either locked up or barred from the country. Absolutely insane.

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I don't have any particularly strong views either way on their visit, or now non-visit. But I do take objection to any misguided reference to attacks on free speech. This is about keeping out...

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Rule Sharia. God save the Sheik.

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"This is about keeping out "undesirable" foreigners" Undesirable, how? For writing inconvenient trutrhs about the Religion of Peace? This isn't, say, keeping out Fred Phelps. Refer back to my comment...

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We can keep out any foreigners we like. And we have done so. They're not British citizens so what right should they have to come here and stir #!*$? Besides, the more to it than free speech....

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And that Brit would very likely be bunged up for "inciting racial hatred."  Let's be clear. This person wants entry to the UK. He has been denied it because they'll cause trouble and stir !#@# and...

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The NSA may have given a not very flattering reference. Ian S.

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"his ghastly ways and notions" Seriously?

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Of course. Doesn't matter where we are you're all the foreigners.

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Lord Lieutenant wrote:Muslims of the same ilk are denied entry all the time on the same grounds as are anyone who comes here and may be antagonistic. We can deny EC to who we want. It has made the...

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Re: Britain: a no-free-speech zone.

Last I heard, Britain's is a sovereign nation and they get to choose whom they let in.

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Theresa May excluded an Indian Zakir Niak who is a Muslim extremist under the same rules.

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No problem. Forgive the formatting but the 4th column along is the number of Entry Clearance refusals in numbers and the column after is the percentage. I have chosen the Middle East as its...

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I don't know about this specific case, but there certainly is a free-speech double standard where any of the PC-protected groups are concerned, which includes Muslims at the moment (sometimes it...

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To be honest, I suspect that the only reason that Lee Rigby's murder got so much - or any! - coverage was because it (well, the immediate aftermath) was so widely captured on random punters' cameras...

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If they are racists or who like to spread hate, regardless of them being white, black, brown, neon green with polkadots etc then and their hate can be religious, racial, pro cat, anti dog, pro skub,...

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 For our US cousins who may not know the EDL are a bunch of racist thugs, mainly ex-, or current football hooligans, who seem to manage to start fights with the police whenever they stage a 'protest',...

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Re: Britain: a no-free-speech zone.

It's a long time since Stalin and Lenin were able to first meet in an Islington pub! It's one thing if these travel bans are imposed because the entrant is likely to be personally dangerous to life...

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