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Mr Bakri was born in Syria and is believed to hold joint Syrian and Lebanese citizenship. He was granted political asylum in the UK in the 1980s because of his involvement with Islamist groups opposed to the secular government of Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad, the father of Syria's current president.
Mr Bakri had praised the September 11 attackers and called for Britain to become an Islamist state, and is regarded as the spiritual leader of Al-Ghurabaa, the organisation responsible for February's Danish embassy protests against cartoons of Mohammed.
He voluntarily left Britain last August days after the Home Office announced it was looking at using treason charges to prosecute him over inflammatory comments made by his Islamist group al-Muhajiroun.
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that is why I couldn't care less about him. He was offered the hospitality of the United Kingdom and imo took full advantage of our tollerance and secularism and other freedoms upheld by brittish law to advocate hate and condone murder. So you think we (or the US for that matter) should welcome him back with open arms and a bouquet of flowers?
Perhaps you're mistaking my reference to the moral high ground as a view I would impose upon everyone, regardless of their intent or belief or background?
Why should the UK accept the return of a snake such as Omar Bakri?
Besides, he clearly has joint Syrian and Lebanese citizenship so why could he not be evacuated to Syria instead? Oh yes, that's right, he caused a stirr and had to leave his homeland because he opposed the secular governement there. If you make yourself unwelcome in your own country and then in another which gave you a place to live and 'protection' under law...
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Originally Posted by Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense
we over in the US had a guy, way back when, who said something about 'not agreeing with what you say, but defending to the last, your right to say it'...
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A question for you:
As a foreigner in receipt of your governements hospitality, if I were to stand on a soapbox in the middle of new york saying how wonderful I thought the actions of the September 11th perpetrators were and how I thought the USA should be forcibly made into an Islamic state, how long do you think it would take for me to be deported "back to whatever 'orrible little country you came from, squier." irrespective of the inconvenience to myself or whether my life might be in danger upon my return there?
Am I wrong thinking that it is a general understanding in the US that one should earn their place in society before one can enjoy its benefits and support as is exampled by some of the comments round here concerning the unemployed in your country? I'm not having a dig there, but I get the impression that you only 'get out what you put in', as it were.
I don't dissmiss the need for morality with integrity and honour and to uphold decency and general goodness towards those in need, but can you honestly say this man deserves the right to claim the benefit of such aid from those he would quite happily denounce and publically advocate the overthrow of?
He has done nothing whatsoever to earn that right by his actions to date. His current difficulty is entirely of his own design.