To think that Kier Starmer shouldn't be welcoming extremists into Britain?

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Reported in The Telegraph today that Sir Keir Starmer has welcomed an alleged Islamist extremist, who labelled British people “dogs and monkeys” and called for Zionists to be killed, into the UK.

The Prime Minister said he was “delighted” that Alaa Abd el-Fattah had arrived from Egypt on Friday evening after a travel ban imposed by Cairo was lifted following lobbying by ministers.

Mr Abd el-Fattah, an activist with dual British-Egyptian citizenship, previously said that it was heroic to kill Zionists “including civilians”. He urged Londoners to burn Downing Street, told his supporters to kill police and said he hated white people.

Ministers are facing calls to revoke his British citizenship, which he was granted in 2021 while imprisoned in Egypt, where campaigners described him as a “prisoner of conscience”.

Sir Keir’s tweet yesterday said how “delighted” he was that Alaa Abd El-Fattah is back in this country. Does that seem a reasonable stance to take for someone who has claimed at the same time to be committed to "eradicating antisemitism in the UK"?

Thanks to Twitter/X we get this kind of citizen journalism that the mainstream media seems to strangely be lacking. No wonder they want to ban it. If it wasn't for Twitter there would be so much stuff that ordinary people didn't get to know about.

Me neither 😥

Oh!

9 November 2022 - Starmer complains to Rishi Sunak that Fattah is "a British citizen jailed for the crime of posting on social media".

hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2022-1…

https://x.com/i/status/2005263297491390821

Tweeting about wanting to kill Americans in 2008.

And it's thanks to Twitter that people like Abd el-Fattah have a platform to spread hate. Twitter is a cess pit and many "citizen journalists" are very, very dubious.

A minute or two of googling would have brought up articles about those tweets. The Wall Street Journal reported on them a decade ago. Politicians of all stripes have failed here.

Who is the "they" that want to ban Twitter, btw?

erm How is this Twitter’s fault? Twitter exposed him, yet Youre monte angry at a social media platform than the hateful man himself or the politicians enabling him?

The whole lot of them are rotten to the core, no matter which party allegiance. It's all game playing like a political football. Their behaviour in the Commons is embarrassing for starters.

No. I was pointing out to that poster that Twitter is not some sort of benign force for good. I have made my feelings clear about Abd el-Fattah in my previous posts on this thread. But don't let that stop you jumping to conclusions.

Eta: Twitter didn't expose him. He was exposed a decade ago, but politicians and celebs chose to ignore it all.

Err Sunak raised the case with the Egyptian President, then made a statement to the 'commons about his progress in getting this man released.... which Starmer then responded too.....

Did you read your link? or are you another portraying this as a Starmer only issue?

Get the facts straight, they ALL supported his release and actively campaigned for it....

El-Fattah wrote those hateful, genocidal, racist tweets for all to see and now the spotlight is on him in a way it wouldn't be if we only got the sanitized version of who he is from The Guardian/BBC etc. If Twitter didn't exist, would we even know he had these views?

I never said otherwise. That was the text of the tweet I linked! The context of which was the irony of Starmer being upset that someone was jailed for tweets.

Another shining example of cleaning up politics and restoring public trust.

And it's thanks to Twitter that people like Abd el-Fattah have a platform to spread hate.

But he'd still have that hate inside him, may have even spread it by other means. But by him tweeting it made it easy to find.

I think twitter is somewhere between a benign force for good and a cesspit. It certainly exposes people.

I suppose the useful idiots have helped spread extremists' words without even knowing they are doing it. I'm sure somebody will be along in a minute to object to the useful idiots term, as they did with describing a racist as filthy. This is part of the reason why such radicals are allowed to hide under the radar.

I am feeling a genuine fear and anxiety about our leadership today that I haven’t felt since the start of the COVID pandemic. Then it was a fear of the unknown and being led into it by Boris. Now it’s a panic that our government are either completely incompetent or much much worse.

The Guardian , Sunday evening:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/28/successive-uk-governments-face-questions-over-support-for-activist-alaa-abd-el-fattah

Just wait until Starmer welcomes back Shamima Begum

Interesting turn of events

Yep, heck of lot of MPs, once keen supporters of the cause suddenly getting on their reversocycles but all a bit late...Westminster is going to need a bigger muck spreader because there's a lot to go round.

Hear hear

The BBC still hasn't reported on his tweets, have they?

The silence is deafening, especially when all the majority of news outlets have reported now.

What can we do? Write to MP? Anything else?

The BBC will never learn from its past mistakes. The rot is too ingrained now.

Agreed, I am appalled by their coverage since October 7th. I cancelled my BBC license and made a formal complaint to them. Refusing to call terrorists terrorists when they murder and rape Jews was the final straw.

There is an open government petition to dissolve parliament and call an election.

The government(s) have completely screwed up, not only in granting citizenship but also accusing the Egyptian government of infringing on his human rights. Even if they did revoke his citizenship they cannot return to Egypt. As for the security services what a complete embarrassment. Although I cannot see how this wasn't flagged, this would mean layers of incompetence.