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Britain still too soft on preachers of hate, think-tank warns
Britain is still not expelling enough preachers of hate compared with European rivals such as France, a government think-tank has warned.
France has expelled seventeen imams in the past month for using inflammatory rhetoric to potentially induce possibly impressionable young Muslims to commit potential terrorist acts.
But the British human rights lobby has stood in the way of similar measures being taken in Britain.
Under Britain's anti-terror laws, imams preaching hatred are not subject to deportation but merely to indefinite detention, presumption of guilt by association, house arrest and use of sniffer dogs to detect caches of explosives in their mosques.
The report by the Council for Attenuating Terror and Aborting Rising Religious Hatred (CATARRH) says that such measures may no longer be sufficient to fulfil Britain's European quotas on expulsions.
"In theory, locking someone away in Belmarsh, Blunkwell or Clarkmark doesn't really count as expulsion from the country," said CATARRH spokesperson Dodie Mair. "We've tried to persuade Brussels to be more flexible about it, but they keep insisting on the distinction, and if they ever do concede the point it'll be at the cost of our traditional potato crisps or something."
The Prime Minister and Home Secretary welcomed the report and said that, in defence of the British way of life, everything possible would be done to prevent the preaching of hatred by Muslims.
"We certainly will not stand by while cave-dwelling bigots and unreasoning bombers try to inflict their petty nationalist prejudices on the country that beat Napoleon and Hitler," the Prime Minister said.
Britain is still not expelling enough preachers of hate compared with European rivals such as France, a government think-tank has warned.
France has expelled seventeen imams in the past month for using inflammatory rhetoric to potentially induce possibly impressionable young Muslims to commit potential terrorist acts.
But the British human rights lobby has stood in the way of similar measures being taken in Britain.
Under Britain's anti-terror laws, imams preaching hatred are not subject to deportation but merely to indefinite detention, presumption of guilt by association, house arrest and use of sniffer dogs to detect caches of explosives in their mosques.
The report by the Council for Attenuating Terror and Aborting Rising Religious Hatred (CATARRH) says that such measures may no longer be sufficient to fulfil Britain's European quotas on expulsions.
"In theory, locking someone away in Belmarsh, Blunkwell or Clarkmark doesn't really count as expulsion from the country," said CATARRH spokesperson Dodie Mair. "We've tried to persuade Brussels to be more flexible about it, but they keep insisting on the distinction, and if they ever do concede the point it'll be at the cost of our traditional potato crisps or something."
The Prime Minister and Home Secretary welcomed the report and said that, in defence of the British way of life, everything possible would be done to prevent the preaching of hatred by Muslims.
"We certainly will not stand by while cave-dwelling bigots and unreasoning bombers try to inflict their petty nationalist prejudices on the country that beat Napoleon and Hitler," the Prime Minister said.
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