{"id":5436,"date":"2017-06-11T14:32:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T14:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/11\/robert-spencers-ban-from-the-uk\/"},"modified":"2017-06-11T14:32:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T14:32:36","slug":"robert-spencers-ban-from-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/06\/11\/robert-spencers-ban-from-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Spencer’s Ban from the U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"

The following from a London correspondent:<\/span><\/p>\n

Quite incredibly, Spencer is still banned from visiting the UK because of what he says in this short (2:07) YouTube video<\/a>. The letter from the Home Office, then under the auspices of Theresa May, said:<\/span><\/p>\n

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You are reported to have stated the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

>>It [Islam] is a religion and a belief system that mandates warfare against unbelievers for the purpose for establishing a societal model that is absolutely incompatible with Western society \u2026 because [of] political correctness and because of media and general government unwillingness to face the sources of Islamic terrorism these things remain largely unknown.<<<\/span><\/p>\n

The Home Secretary considers that should you be allowed to enter the UK you would continue to espouse such views. In doing so. you would be committing listed behaviours and would therefore be behaving in a way that is not conducive to the public good.<\/span><\/p>\n

You are therefore instructed not to travel to the UK as you will be refused admission on arrival. Although there is no statutory right of appeal against the Home Secretary\u2019s decision, this decision is reviewed every 3 to 5 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Astonishing. So it is "not conducive to the public good" to speak the truth because some people (Muslims) will be offended by it and others (ordinary Brits) will be inspired to commit acts of violence against members of a minority? Is that the Home Office reasoning? <\/span><\/p>\n

Lord have mercy!<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Islamists have learned how to use our values against us. We value toleration and they exploit our tolerance. That ploy is structurally similar to what Communists did and their leftist successors do. Islam is the Communism of the 21st century. Theresa May plays the role of 'useful idiot.'<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And then comes the Orwellian twist: when Spencer points out that Islam is incompatible with Western values such as toleration, and speaks up in defence of toleration, he is denounced as intolerant! So you are intolerant if you won't tolerate your own destruction?<\/span><\/p>\n

There are many deep issues here, and it is very difficult to set them forth clearly in a few sentences. One issue is whether there is truth at all, or only politically correct opinions. Note the obvious: what is politically correct need not be correct in the sense of true. <\/span><\/p>\n

For the Left truth doesn't matter since it is all about power in the end and those narratives that are conducive to the gaining and maintaining of power. As I have said more than once,  a story does not have to be true to be a story.  <\/span><\/p>\n

One of the subterranean links between leftism and Islam concerns the denial of absolute truth. On Islamic voluntarism, truth is subject to Allah's will, which of course implies that truth is not absolute.  That's just a hint. More later. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The following from a London correspondent: Quite incredibly, Spencer is still banned from visiting the UK because of what he says in this short (2:07) YouTube video. The letter from the Home Office, then under the auspices of Theresa May, said: You are reported to have stated the following: >>It [Islam] is a religion and a … Continue reading “Robert Spencer’s Ban from the U.K.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231,119,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-islamism","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}