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Richard Corbett - IBA Pussy of the Month

From MEP Richard Corbett's blog:

Another hole has been blown in UKIP's attempts to describe themselves as a non-racist party, with their invitation to the racist Dutch politician Geert Wilders who has been banned by the Home Office from entering the UK on the grounds that he would incite hatred and endanger public security.

Mr Wilders is the leader of the so-called Freedom Party in the Netherlands and has been ordered by the Dutch courts to stand trial against charges of inciting hatred by making the most inflammatory kind of anti-Islamic statements. He has compared the Koran to Hitler's Mein Kampf describing it as a "fascist book" and called for it to be banned. He was invited to show his film Fitna, which links the Koran to terrorism, at the House of Lords by UKIP peer Lord Pearson.

It is particularly sickening that UKIP and Mr Wilders are making themselves to be martyrs in this case, claiming that they are being denied the right to free speech. This is fatuous and they know it. In the same way that the likes of Abu Hamza have been arrested for inciting hatred and violence in Britain, so should Mr Wilders be barred from showing and then discussing a film that, in the words of Dutch Prime Minister Jens Balkenende, serves "no purpose other than to offend".

It is also revealing that Mr Wilders is that sort of character with whom UKIP would ally. Among his key policy platform include proposals to end the admittance of asylum seekers, ban Islamic schools, halt all Muslim immigration to the Netherlands and pay all settled immigrants to leave. These ideas would not be out of place in a BNP manifesto.

I wonder if Mr. Corbett is familiar with Sharia law, or with the fact that 40% of Muslims in the UK would like to see it introduced? 

Is he ok with the Sharia courts that currently exist, and with the fact that they are clearly treating women as inferior citizens?

I wonder if Mr. Corbett is familiar with the history of Islam in Europe, and how the ebb and flow of Islamic invasion almost perfectly coincides with what we call the "Dark Ages", or the Medieval Age? 

I wonder if he has any reason to believe that Islam has fundamentally changed, so that we could expect different results?