Another victory for free speech?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/94488 /Banned-cleric-of-hate-invited-to-rant-in-UK

Tower Hamlets said it had found "no grounds" to prohibit the event, at the Brady arts centre in Whitechapel.

A spokesman said: "We sought advice from the Home Office.

"These enquiries did not present us with grounds to prohibit playing of the message."

Those attending are required to register online and pay a fee up to �70 which goes towards "promoting Islam".

Well that's OK then, well done Tower Hamlets, the voice of free speech.

I wonder if the same would have been said, had it have been a 'far right' affair?

[ummmm]

Of course it wouldn't. I was reading this earlier and to be honest it's shocking.

In the same paper we also have the headline 'We'll fight the rise of BNP, vows Harman'

Although I do not support the BNP in any which, way or form at least they do not advocate killing British people on British soil financed by the British benefits system.

[Gormless]

Why so surprised aog? I have every sympathy with virtually everything you post, but you have to realise that Britain is headed for the Third World, care of Brown. Gordon Brown is nothing less than a traitor, but there is nothing that can be done. Admit more and more Pakistani students, keep pratting on about international peace and harmony, all that crap.

THESE PEOPLE WANT TO KILL ALL OF US.

Britain is F----D.

[Katoninelive]

I agree with Gormless, They will not be happy until they have 'Killed us all!'

[DSnewsKE]

Banned from America, big deal. They also ban cannabis smokers from entering. What does that tell you about them? My country doesn't take any notice of the Americans either, that's their problem, no one does.

[paraffin]

This is why so many people want to come here and why the "Great" is in Britain!

And isn't it just a tad ironic that this "conference" is taking place during the Christian festival of Easter? Nothing quite like rubbing our noses in it, is there?

[anotheoldgit]

My country doesn't take any notice of the Americans either,

I am assuming that your country is Britain DSnewsKE ?

If so, I only wish your statement was true. Then we wouldn't have been sacrificing our country's young lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[rov1200]

You have to ask yourself would America allow the rantings of this fanatic to be broadcast and would there be enough Muslims there to listen to it in the first place. He knows there are a willing audience ready to gloat at his words and create more ferment. Does a woman have the right credentials when tackling such a job with the country reliant on the decisions. Only in the recent past two women heads of MI5 have resigned because of the pressure. And now Jackie Smith.......?

[Lonnie]

I wouldn't have put it as strongly, but Gormless is 100% correct.

Yhis has been allowed purely and simply because he is Muslim.

I believe, and i've posted on it many times, that its always been this Labour Goverments aim to destroy England as it is, or was before 1997.

You may or may not agree with me, but thats what I think.

[Gromit]

Mr Anwar al-Awlaki was born in the United States and is a US citizen, so how can he be banned from his own country?

Why the big deal about showing a video by this man. Anyone can watch him on facebook and YouTube,

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&se arch_query=Anwar+al-Awlaki&aq=f

and elsewhere on the internet. He even has his own website

http://www.anwar-alawlaki.com/

Where he recently wrote...

The truth of the matter is I am not banned from return to the US. I left the US on my own accord and refuse to return by my own choice. In fact the opposite is true. The US consul encouraged me to return to the US during his visit to me while I was incarcerated. I refuse to even visit the US because the US government is not to be trusted as they are liars just like their media. In the article the US Department of Homeland Security, accused me of using video lectures in recent months to �encourage terrorist attacks�.
Not only in the past months but in the past five years I have not published a single video lecture.
The article quotes Charles Allen, America�s undersecretary of homeland security for intelligence and analysis as saying that I was a spiritual advisor for three of the September 11 hijackers. This is a baseless claim that I have refuted again and again during the FBI�s interrogations and with the media. The US government and the media still insist on spreading this lie around.