Originally published August 15 2005
Blair announces Britain will ban hate groups
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The British Prime Minister today announced new measures to deport religious extremists who incite hatred, and that the government was launching a one-month consultation on new grounds for excluding and deporting people from Britain.
The new measures would also include financing or aiding attacks, receiving terrorism training and the "glorifying or condoning of terrorism" (including on websites and in bookstores) as well as what many consider the most controversial change - allowing the police to hold a suspect for up to three months instead of the current 14 days.
CNN reports that Blair said there would be a one-month consultation period with different groups, including some from Britain's Muslim community, to develop new rules for "excluding and deporting people from Britain."
When Blair says the "rules of the game are changing" he means the balance between rights and security, writes Mr. Pienaar, and that means that "confrontation seem certain on several front: in the courts, outside Parliament with the human rights lobby and perhaps inside the Commons on the extent of the powers Blair has unveiled."
Reuters reports that most human rights groups in Britain have "taken a step back" since the London bombings on July 7, but they are starting to be increasingly concerned.
Blair said it was a "complete obscenity" for Al Qaeda to justify terrorism against Britain when its terrorist attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan were killing hundreds of innocent civilians.
For his part, Blair has refused to link the London bombings to his government's support for the US-led war in Iraq, but his Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said this week that the British presence in Iraq was helping to fuel the insurgency there.
Do we share the American neocon view, which is that Al Qaeda's demand for Western troop withdrawal and disengagement from the Muslim world is essentially a tactical one to demonstrate Islamist strength and Western weakness; and that conceding it would be a fatal defeat in the "existential struggle" now taking place between the rival ideologies of Islamism and Westernism?
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