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Very fortunate for all Brits, the UK is EU member and bound by the Convention on Human Rights.

Britain's ability to deport foreign nationals has been hampered by human rights legislation. As a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights, Britain is not allowed to deport people to a country where they may face torture or death.

On the other hand, the UK as well as the Netherlands, have been harboring suspected terrorists for decades.

  • Right-wing UK radio station broadcasts hate attacks on Muslim MP in Denmark.

    What about the other side of the coin?

  • EU and UK support of Israeli occupation of Gaza and West Bank
  • Illegal act of war - Iraq invasion and Fallujah war crimes.
    Equal under law, any (foreign) national in support of Blair's policy will be deported?

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  • UK Faces Terror Risk Because of US Alliance ¶ Chatham House Report
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  • by Oui on Fri Aug 5th, 2005 at 10:56:18 AM EST
    He is already drafting legislation to back his rules if such deportations are challenged in court. As of right now, he has not stated how far he would draw the line or how his plan squares with the Convention.

    Iraq War news and comment.
    by Eternal Hope on Fri Aug 5th, 2005 at 11:31:40 AM EST
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    I think they're banned in Germany.(Tried to download a Verfassungsschutz document which a google of Hizb al Tahrir + Verbot turned up but the huge pdf doc crashed Adobe) France expels radical imams. In general much of Europe has laws against hate speech, you don't need to actually advocate violence to be engaged in criminal speech. So the only real issue here is whether or not the people in question are likely to be tortured when they get sent home. But that is a practical problem of the implementation of the law, not something which would make the law illegal per se.  
    by MarekNYC on Fri Aug 5th, 2005 at 06:14:01 PM EST
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     in 2003as a 'Islamist organization with a clear anti-Jewish ideology' (islamistische Vereinigung mit deutlich anti-jüdischem Gedankengut). According to the same source it calls for fighting the 'Jewish infidels'
    http://www.stura.uni-leipzig.de/~farao/gruppen/hizbtahrir.htm

    In general equating ultra radical organizations like this one with mainstream US fundy Christian ones like Focus on the Family seems deeply misguided to me. The American mainstream fundies bear a lot more resemblance to moderate Islamists like Qardawi or Sistani than they do to the friendly totalitarians of Hizb al Tahrir.  By that I mean that they believe in democracy but one where the 'true' religion plays a major role, particularly in legal norms regarding personal life and morality. Something rather different from the outright rejection of Democracy as an inherently evil ideology because it gives sovreignty to the people rather than to god, or rather his representatives on earth.

    by MarekNYC on Fri Aug 5th, 2005 at 06:30:23 PM EST
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    FOTF plays a lot more lip service to democracy even as their proposals would end it or weaken it. Hizb-al-Tahrir, on the other hand, makes no secret of its detestation of Democracy and its misguided desire to replace it with an Islamic fundamentalist state.

    Iraq War news and comment.
    by Eternal Hope on Sat Aug 6th, 2005 at 02:02:51 AM EST
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