Commons Leader Lucy Powell replied: “(Mr Blackman) raises a very serious matter, as he does often in the House, about how we tackle antisemitism in this country, how we tackle hate speech, and how we take action to make sure that those who are spreading hate and antisemitism are prevented from doing so, and I shall certainly raise the matter with the Home Secretary and make sure he gets a full response.”.
Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said in a letter to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper that “freedom of speech does not walk hand-in-hand with freedom for extremist Islamist clerics to come to this country and further their attempts to undermine our society.”.
“He’s been banned in Germany, banned in Holland and I know that the shadow Home Secretary has written to the Home Secretary already asking that he be banned from this country.
In his letter to Ms Cooper, Mr Philp said: “This social media ‘cleric’ has used his platform to spread hatred of Western values and, in a widely circulated video, told his followers that paedophiles, rapists and murderers who pray are better, in the eyes of Allah than non-paedophiles, non-rapists and non-murderers who do not pray.
“So can the Leader use her good offices to encourage the Home Secretary to issue a banning order to prevent this man from coming to this country?”.
