Pamela Geller And Robert Spencer Banned From The UK By Home Office, Due To Speak At EDL
Source: Huffington Post
Two US far-right activists have been banned from the UK after a concerted campaign to stop the two addressing an English Defence League rally in Woolwich.
The Huffington Post reported last week that anti-fascist campaigners sent a petition to the Home Secretary to stop two anti-Islam activists, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer from America speaking at an EDL rally in Woolwich, where Drummer Lee Rigby was murdered.
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Geller and Spencer have both now posted a letter from the Home Office on their respective blogs, a letter which warns them against against travelling to the UK.
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"The Home Secretary has reached this decision because you have brought yourself within the scope of the list of unacceptable behaviours by making statements that may foster hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the UK."
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/26/pamela-geller-banned_n_3503307.html
Scurrilous
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pampango
(24,692 posts)This ban foils the US left's plan to send Geller and Spencer to the UK then not let them back into the US. They could just join the EDL and be with folks like themselves.