Britain's Double Standard on Islamist Extremist is National Suicide

By Michael Barone, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

In London the Centre for Social Cohesion has brought legal action to seek an arrest warrant for Islamist extremist and Hezbollah spokesman Ibrahim Moussawi if he enters Britain. The Centre's head Douglas Murray points out that the Home Office barred Dutch parliamentarian and filmmaker Geert Wilders from entering Britain, but has twice allowed Moussawi to do so. The Telegraph points out that the British government has a double standard, extending great tolerance to violent Islamists while cracking down on those who point out that they are violent. This seems something like national suicide to me.

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