Balanced and Fair

 Just a little post to draw peoples attention to this story which gives the lie to what some claimed was anti muslim bias following the decision to bar the entry of Yusuf Qaradawi to the UK.

Prehaps the two of them can team up and rail against this outrage.

If true, it is interesting to note that the UK authorities were prepared to arrest an Israeli General for war crimes.

 Intoralent of intolerance, from which ever side, is always good and consistent.

"Britain has banned a senior member of Israel’s right-wing Likud opposition party from entering the country on the grounds that comments he has made could inspire hatred, violence or even terrorism.

Moshe Feiglin, a member of Likud’s central committee who ran for leadership in the party’s primaries last year, was barred under legislation drafted after the July 2005 terror attacks on London’s transport system.

Mr Feiglin, a staunch opponent of the Oslo peace accords in the 1990s, was told by the Home Office that he was considered to be “seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the UK”.

The department said that as such, his acts fell into a list of “unacceptable behaviours,” listed after the London bombings, according to a letter obtained by the Jewish Chronicle, which said the decision to ban him came directly from Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary.

The ban comes after it emerged that a top Israeli general had narrowly escaped arrest at Heathrow airport in September 2005 on war crimes allegations. British police had planned to arrest Major General Doron Almog for ordering the destruction of 59 homes in the Gaza strip in 2002, but had decided against boarding his plane at Heathrow because of the danger of an armed stand-off with his bodyguards. The general, who had been tipped off about the plans for his arrest, stayed on his plane until it returned to Israel.

The letter to Mr Feiglin did not specify which of his comments led to the immigration authority’s decision to bar him, but it did say his articles had played a role. In one of his published writings, the Likud MP called for a Jewish holy war.

“In order to declare that we are right, we have to declare war. It’s not the Arabs who are murdering mothers, but those merciful people who gave weapons to the murderers. It’s not the Arabs who are burning babies, but the peaceniks who recognised the justice of the Arabs’ cause. It’s not the cruel people who are bombing us, but the merciful people who showed them mercy. War now! A holy war now.”

In another article, Mr Feiglin descriped the Muslim Prophet Mohammed as “strong, cruel and deceitful.” The Israeli politician announced that he was unconcerned at the decision, saying he had no plans to travel to Britain anyway, but wondered why he had been singled out while the editor of a Hezbollah journal -- who had been barred from Ireland for anti-Semitic comments -- was granted permission to enter the UK.

“I almost feel honoured, because of the way that the British government is behaving, to be marked as the bad guy by a government that supports terror. I see it almost as a compliment,” he said. "