Blaze: UK Bans Two Prominent American Bloggers From Entering the Country

It’s a shock to the system when a balanced report (and headline) void of smear, libel and defamation is published on our banning from the UK.

The UK Bans Two Prominent American Bloggers From Entering the Country
Mike Opelka, The Blaze, June 27, 2013

On Wednesday, two American citizens
were told that their opinions were a danger to the UK and as such, they
were banned from visiting the country.

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Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, two outspoken American bloggers and pro-Israel activists were slated to speak this week at a rally for the English Defence League
in the United Kingdom (UK). But that’s not happening. Both Geller and
Spencer were denied entry into the UK by the Home Secretary’s office.
Among the reasons given, their presence is “not conducive to the public
good.”

According to documents sent to Geller and Spencer
(both of the letters were virtually identical), their denial was based
upon a perceived violation(s) of the British government’s “Unacceptable
Behaviour” policy. That policy states that the government can
expel/deport or deny entry to any non-UK national who violates the
policy by engaging in one of the “behaviours” on the list.

These include:

• Writing, producing, publishing or distributing material
• Public speaking including preaching
• running a website
• using a position of responsibility such as a teacher, community or youth leader

To express views that:

• foment or justify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs
• seek to provoke others to terrorist attacks
• foment other criminal activity or seek to promote others to commit serious criminal acts
• foster hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the UK

The backgrounds of the two banned
Americans were reviewed by the Home Secretary’s office and they were
told in crystal clear terms, “your presence here is not conducive to the
public good.”

The official notice went on to
clarify, ”You are therefore instructed not to travel to the UK as you
will be refused admission on arrival.”

Spencer’s blog post titled, “Banned In Britain: UK Caves To Jihad,” carried identical reply messages regarding their interpretation of the ban.

In a striking blow against
freedom, the British government has banned us from entering the
country. Muhammad al-Arifi, who has advocated Jew-hatred, wife-beating,
and jihad violence, entered the U.K. recently with no difficulty. In not
allowing us into the country solely because of our true and accurate
statements about Islam, the British government is behaving like a de
facto Islamic state. The nation that gave the world the Magna Carta is
dead.

If Geller and Spencer’s names sound
familiar to you, they are the driving force behind many campaigns to
educate people in America and around the world to the dangers of
“creeping sharia” and some of the motives behind the more militant
factions of Islam. They are regularly described as “extreme” and
“anti-Islam” by their opponents.

Last November, TheBlaze published a story
about their mass transit campaign that irritated many pro-Muslim
organizations like CAIR. The ad in question showed the World Trade
Center towers in flames along with quotes from the Quran.

Update:

Overnight, Ms. Geller provided answers to TheBlaze questions about the ban as well as the stated purpose of her visit to England;

I was going to lay flowers
at the site on Armed Forces day and I was banned. My crime? My
principled dedication to freedom. I am a human rights activist dedicated
to freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and individual rights for
all before the law. I fiercely oppose violence and the persecution and
oppression of minorities under supremacist law. I deplore violence and
work for the preservation of freedom of speech to avoid violent
conflict.

Geller pointed out that the UK banned
her without her being charged or convicted of any crime, “I became a
writer and activist in the wake of 911. For this I am banned. I shed no
tears. I am banned from Mecca, too.”

Concerning the charge by the Home
Secretary’s office that Geller and Spencer’s presence in the UK was “not
conducive to the public good”, Ms Geller also states;

It is painfully apparent
that the action of the British authorities will have the opposite effect
of what they had intended. They have lit a fuse. And instead of
allowing a respectful laying of flowers in memory of Lee Rigby on Armed
Forces day, they have given rise and sanction to poison like this: “IED threat to Britain as fanatic Anjem Choudary recruits vigilante squads” (Geller was pointing to a story from the Sun about radical muslim preacher Anjem Choudary and his recent call to create a network of “task forces” in the UK with the intention of meting out their own form of justice.)

We have posted a copy of Ms. Geller’s
letter below. As stated above, it is identical to the one received by
Mr. Spencer, only the names have been changed.

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crookedwren

10 years ago

Liberty is disappearing at an alarming rate. The Caliphate and the Fabian Socialists are celebrating. Pray the EDL continues to grow and prosper.

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rob e

10 years ago

i live in the uk and this makes me ashamed.

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gary fouse

10 years ago

If we had a government with any principles, we would reciprocate by banning Brits into the US like George Galloway, Yvonne Ridley and Ben White.

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Ejectfast

10 years ago

You were going to speak at a rally for the English Defence League, that’s why they wouldn’t let you in. Because of their neo-Nazi policies, very few English people agree with the EDL.

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Isabellathecrusader

10 years ago

Here’s the real problem: Britain has now officially dhimmified itself in order to appease it’s Muslim masters, just like any other country that started out Christian and ended up Muslim. That’s why Robert and Pamela can’t get in. They can’t go to Mecca because it is totally Islamic; they cant go to London because it thinks it has gone totally Islamic and the indigenous people who let it are scared to death to confront it, and so the lie that Pamela and Robert will somehow disrupt the amazing peace they’ve got going on over there continues to gain traction, but not because it is true, no, only because the people are afraid to tell the truth lest the Muslim barbarians target them for extinction. Remember, Egypt used to be a Christian nation, way back in the day, and the Copts were the original Christians who lived there before Muhammad’s hoards came barreling through.
I didn’t realize this until just the other day when Pamela put up the thread about Robert Spencer being interviewed on a UK radio station morning show.
What really got to me in that interview was some chick named Annie who sounded like she just got back from the Council on American Islamic Relations school of “How to Promote Sound Bites that Support Islam and Vilify Its Opponents”. Her canned responses were reminiscent of so many whining CAIR press conferences I’ve seen over here in the U.S. Then it hit me, while she was angry at Robert for, in her opinion, “stirring up trouble” if he and Pamela came to the U.K., the underlying source of her anger was fear. I recognized it. The terror promoted by those Islamic fuckwits like Anjem Choudary and the weenies over at CAIR has done its work and has had a very corrosive effect on the British psyche. But thank the Good Lord above for the EDL and the men who are willing to stand up and protect their families and the culture of Britian by saying, no, we won’t go Islamic and if you try and make us we’re going to tangle. And if you push us far enough you’re going to start a war and you’re going to die.
Also, let’s be honest here and call Anjem Choudary’s “IED” squads what they really are, roaming Sharia Enforcement gangs. Those need to be nipped in the bud, pronto, before the savages see that they can get away with it and their numbers start to grow exponentially.

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InfidelForLife

10 years ago

Very sharp observation!

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Rainer

10 years ago

It’s typical for neonazis to burn swastika flags on a regular basis. Do you think so.

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Heltau

10 years ago

The UK: Ti’s all in pieces; all coherence gone.
Sooner than we want to believe it will be here in the US.

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Rifleman 2

10 years ago

The dhimmis in charge in the UK will realize that the Sharia is “not conducive to the public good” at the exact moment that the sword of islam touches their necks.
The UK is sunk. They have bought and paid for their own extermination at the hands of islamic savages, by refusing to acknowledge and address the problem.
You can’t make violent jihad go away by banning those who oppose savage violence.
Pure insanity.

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RReaganConservative

10 years ago

Anti-Semitism in Europe has been and still is the seed of evil, that which nations like the UK, France, and Germany, has this ugly stain of inhumanity upon western civilization, of society, of humanity in all that they should embody and represent instead- Democracy, Freedom, Liberty, and Truth.
Islamism means anti-Semitism, intolerance, hatred, and violence. ie; evil incarnate- for their end goal is the conquer of all of western civilization, and the eradication, extinction, the extermination of the whole Jewish race of human beings- which is the embodiment of Fascism / Nazism.
They, France, UK, and even Germany have once again embarked on their anti-Semitic journey path, which WWII should have taught them a lesson, for which the world should and must never forget.
In a specific case of French anti-Semitism, all that need be read about France is their excuse of being controlled by the Nazis during WWII. Yet, they- the French, did nothing to stop the Nazis from extracting the Jews of France. French Collaborators assisted the Nazis in rounding up and holding Jews in Drancy Court, for deportation to Auschiwtz and Treblinka. Tens and hundreds of thousands of innocent Jewish adults and children went to their deaths.
Today, the UK has banned US citizens Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller from speaking the truth about Islam. To Islamist collaborators assisting the Islamification indoctrination and subjugation of Islamism onto Western Civilized Democratic Nation in Europe and America, who have control of govt, and like the Nazi’s, have been successful in legalizing the banning of Free Speech- labeling truth telling as a categorizing it as hate speech, which is a lie. The UK’s liberal govt / politicians, politically motivated actions are- attack the messenger, if they dislike the message, aka the Truth.
These willing Islamist Jihadist sycophants in European govts, are enabling and assisting in their own Nation’s, people’s, and culture’s demise. And soon will be burning books, (then people) once again- They never learn.
–
“Islamist Egyptians Protest Outside Israeli Embassy With Swastika Sign Saying “The Gas Chambers Are Ready”
 
–
“My Name is Bosch Fawstin and I’m a Recovered Muslim”
May 27, 2013
Quote- “We didn’t use terms such as “Radical Nazism”, “Extremist Shinto” and “Militant Communism” in the past. “Militant Islam”, Political Islam”, etc., are redundant
terms. Our pretending otherwise has proven disastrous. Thousands of American lives, both civilian and military, have been sacrificed because of policies predicated on the myth that “Islam means peace.” We didn’t try to reform Shinto or Nazism during World War II; the major changes in those cultures took place only after we thoroughly de-militarized them.
Islam means misogyny, anti-Semitism, homophobia, wife-beatings, beheadings, honor killings, pedophilia/“child marriages”, murdering infidels, etc. This is evil, and Islam sanctions every bit of it.
The Western problem is not “Islamophobia”, but “Islamophilia”. It is this uncritical, uninformed, absolute defense of Islam by Western elites after 9/11 that I refer to as Islamgate.
I care about the truth. I care about Western Civilization. I care about myself, my loved ones and my friends. I care about Iife. And that’s why I don’t care about Islam.” unquote

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InfidelForLife

10 years ago

Bosch Fawstin is clearly a very brave person, and intelligent. I wish there were more of those. So far, an army of one, unfortunately. But it’s a start.
As for the Egyptian fascists and their gas chambers being ready… this time, the .50 cals are ready too.

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Doubting Rich

10 years ago

What makes you think they are neo-Nazis? The only thing I have seen that suggests that is news media claims, none of which has been substantiated by anything so petty as evidence or even reasoning.
They have never attacked anyone else physically, yet have been criticised in news media for the violent demonstrations against them by extremist Muslims and the fascist “Anti-Fascist League”.

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Doubting Rich

10 years ago

I am deeply embarrassed by my country.
For what it is worth, I have written to my MP with whom I have previously exchanged cordial emails. Needless to say this email was less than cordial.
Indeed I expressed utter disgust and suggested that the government was made up of “arrogant, illiberal, hubristic fools”, which might have gone a little far. He is party chairman of the Conservative Party, who I would tend to support and had offered to help in his re-election campaign as a volunteer. However I now have an alternative in the centre-right UKIP.

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Drew the Infidel

10 years ago

The British have provided US citizens with a very valuable lesson in constitutional liberties. If the Second Amendment (the right to keep and bear arms) is weakened, there will be no other rights to enjoy.

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Chip Murray

10 years ago

The blazing fires of a living hell! http://shutupnsing.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/the-rising-tide-of-insanity/

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NO AMNESTY;NO H1BS;NO MOOSE-LAMBS

10 years ago

2A for 1A. 1776

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NO AMNESTY;NO H1BS;NO MOOSE-LAMBS

10 years ago

What does UK think is conducive to public good? pisslam, sharia

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