Has Jacqui Smith been listening to such as me?

It seems unlikely but at least Jacqui (Peter Principle personified) Smith has denied Ibrahim Moussawi a visa to enter Britain.



In case you don't know, the Peter Principle says that "in a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence."

My apologies to Jacqui Smith

Earlier today I blogged about the seemingly odd decision of Jacqi Smith, the personification of the Peter Principle, to ban Geert Wilders from entering the UK whilst allowing Ibrahim Moussawi to return. I thought this was odd bearing in mind Ibrahim Moussawi's connections to Hezb'allah.

I have just read that our Labour government in its wisdom has decided to re-establish

"contacts with the political wing of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah.

...

It comes about 10 months after Hezbollah signed a unity accord in Lebanon and joined the government.

Only last year, the government put Hezbollah's military wing on a list of proscribed organisations over its alleged training of insurgents in Iraq.

"We are exploring certain contacts at an official level with Hezbollah's political wing, including MPs," said a spokesperson for the Foreign Office.

...

The spokesperson said Britain would continue to have no contact with Hezbollah's military wing. "

Ah so the decision makes sense now, Ibrahim Moussawi is only linked to the political wing of Hezb'allah not the military wing. I am still not sure how that explains why we are letting in a man who describes Jews as "a lesion on the forehead of history" and has happily explained the religious basis for suicide attacks, but then I am not as intelligent as the former Home Economics teacher* currently occupying the position of Home Secretary.


* Wikipedia now shows Jacqui Smith as having taught Economics rather than Home Economics, are they right or has the truth been polished on Wikipedia? If someone can give a definitive answer I will correct the above assertion.

Geert Wilders banned but Ibrahim Moussawi welcomed

Our ridiculously over-promoted Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, banned the elected Dutch MP Geert Wilders from entering the Country as she deemed that his

"presence in the UK would pose a genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society. The Secretary of State is satisfied that your statements about Muslims and their beliefs, as expressed in your film Fitna and elsewhere would threaten community harmony and therefore public security in the UK."

Meanwhile Jacqui Smith seems perfectly happy to let Ibrahim Moussawi make yet another visit to the UK. That's Ibrahim Moussawi the former political editor of Hezbollah's television station, which is banned in many countries including France, Spain and the U.S. where its output is seen as anti-Semitic. Ibrahim Moussawi who wrote an article for the Daily Star in 2002 to explain the religious basis for suicide attacks. Ibrahim Mousawi who has also been reported in the New Yorker magazine as saying that Jews are "a lesion on the forehead of history".

Is Jacqui Smith saying that Ibrahim Moussawi is less of a threat to "community harmony and therefore public security in the UK" than Geert Wilders? If so is this because Jews will, as usual, accept the verbal attacks on them by the likes of Moussawi whilst Lord Ahmed "threatened to mobilise 10,000 Muslims to prevent Mr Wilders from entering the House"?

It is odd that the UK government of which Jacqui Smith is supposedly a senior member recognizes Hezb'allah as a terrorist group but is happy to let a spokesman for the group into the UK to give a lecture?

The more the British government accedes to the demands of one minority in the interests of "community harmony", the more members of other minorities and indeed the majority population may feel that the government is not acting in their interests. The more these feelings are allowed to grow, the more nasty the results may be.