Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer Legally Challenge Banning from UK

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“Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer to Appeal Banning from UK “Wall Street Journal, July 2, 2013

NEW YORK, July 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Human
rights activists Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer of the American
Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) are challenging the decision to ban
them from the United Kingdom, and have instructed lawyers in that
country.

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Geller and Spencer are challenging British Home Secretary Theresa
May’s decision to prevent them from entering the country in order to lay
a wreath at a memorial for British soldier Lee Rigby on Armed Forces
Day, June 29. Rigby was murdered by Islamic jihadists on a street in
Woolwich on May 22.

Geller, AFDI’s Executive Director, said in a statement: “I have been
banned in Britain. 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.”

AFDI’s Associate Director, Spencer, noted that the United Kingdom
recently admitted the Saudi Muslim cleric Mohammed al-Arifi, who has
said: “Devotion to Jihad for the sake of Allah, and the desire to shed
blood, to smash skulls and to sever limbs for the sake of Allah and in
defense of His religion, is, undoubtedly, an honor for the believer.”
Spencer added: “Such open calls for jihad violence are apparently
acceptable in Britain as long as one is in favor of such violence; only
those who oppose it are excluded.”

A petition asking British authorities to remove the ban and allow
Geller and Spencer into the country has gained over 8,000 signatures in
just a few days; it can be found at www.britishban.com. Geller and
Spencer have also established a website for updates on the case and
donations to this cause of free speech: www.britishlegalfund.com.

AFDI stands for:

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— The freedom of speech — as opposed to Islamic prohibitions of
“blasphemy” and “slander,” which are used effectively to quash honest
discussion of jihad and Islamic supremacism;

— The freedom of conscience — as opposed to the Islamic death penalty for
apostasy;

— The equality of rights of all people before the law — as opposed to
Sharia’s institutionalized discrimination against women and non-Muslims.

Join the AFDI Facebook page here.

For more information, contact Pamela Geller at [email protected].

SOURCE American Freedom Defense Initiative

Web site: http://www.britishban.com

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