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"?

Oh yes he will, he just needs to claim he will be tortured by the Egyptians and will be apolitical prisoner.

Quel surprise! Lammy is the biggest buffoon currently in government. He doesn't even have any charm as past buffoons had.

Couldn't agree more (even the edited bit).

Our leaders literally treat the UK like it’s a dustbin. Come deposit your fanactical garbage here please. There was a Hamas official living in a council house in London ffs.

This man given citizenship because his mother born here, he was not... the poster i replied too said this was tenuous.

Badenoch given citizenship purely because her mother came here to give birth, no other reason, then flew home to continue her life in Africa and beyond.

I think both reasons are weak & your point is stupid

Agree. The good character test going relates to a ruling by the ECHR. We need to decide how much control we want over that kind of thing.

This really exposes some incredible trends and systems related to SM and how much should be checked, court sovereignty, educated people getting celebs onside. Celebs impacting politicians and even the asylum system as @NotDavidTennantmakes a good point.

The public can just see the ridiculous outcome and hypocrisy and take it from there.

Indeed, the number of people (extremists), in our country that hate 'us' (non extremists) is growing all the time. They number on counter terrorism watchlist is growing. The point will come....

Yet, many continue to wave them.in....fools

The Linehan tweets in question were made in April 2025 when he was a UK resident.

That's possible of course.

Can you tell the difference between them? Thats like saying we give LR to millionaires and people who end up jobless in social housing but we have to pretend we can’t tell the difference between those two groups. That is stupid.

The point is the UK had some control over deciding whether on balance you would be a pain in the arse or not. The way he can claim citizenship is not the issue. The point is we have remove our ability to discriminate. we also went out of our way to provide this scum consular assistance.

The edited bit was a step too far for some I think 😂

I don't think he was, he was resident in the us

The loophole to citizenship used by Kemi Badenoch was closed over forty years ago.

But Starmer is Prime Minister and Labour are in power now. Either Starmer and his cabinet didn't do their due diligence (which reflects very badly on him) or for whatever reason he/they are not opposed to this man coming to the UK. But the point is that Labour are in power (with a huge majority) and could ban this person from entering (if they really wanted to - the Government makes the laws after all and we saw from Covid that emergency laws can be brought in to deal with extreme situations where the safety of the public is paramount). Sure the Tories were wrong to give him citizenship but the whattaboutery is annoying. Nobody is to blame for this terrifying debacle except for Starmer and Labour and it's mind-blowing that people like this are being welcomed into the country and potentially putting the public at risk.

Although you still can’t spell his name. I don’t agree with his comments but he’s not the person who set the ball rolling and is again getting the backlash. Badenoch is such a hypocrite.

he’s not the person who set the ball rolling and is again getting the backlash.

He's the sodding Prime Minister!

Plus he tweeted it was his top priority. That included calling on the Egyptian president to make sure the man could be released to the U.K.

Here are some words from Kier Starmer himself taken from his government foreword on Antisemitism after the Heaton Park attack.

Yet I am struck by what the Jewish community have said to me so many times in these recent months. Time and again I heard this sense that antisemitism has become normalised – from our schools and universities to workplaces and even the NHS. I heard how people felt they had to hide their Jewish identity in modern Britain, and that the attack was a shock but not a surprise.

Here is how he finished it.

We know extremism drives antisemitism. Tackling this remains an operational priority for our security and intelligence services, and we are committed to ensuring they are equipped to confront this evolving challenge.
This is a test of who we are as a country: our commitment to fairness, to one another, and to the values that bind us together.
We must all rise to that test.
If what we do does not work for the Jewish community, then it does not work at all.

I would hope that our Prime Minister reread his statement and consider how the Jewish community must be feeling considering their history.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/29/british-egyptian-rights-activist-alaa-abd-el-fattah-apologises-for-hurtful-tweets

He is “sorry” and the the guardian acknowledges that” In some of the tweets he describes the killing of Zionists as heroic, adding “we need to kill more of them”. He also once described British people as dogs and monkeys.”

so he hates us and our country.

this is a gift for Reform

We are used to his U turns.

I’m not sure what you are driving at here.

You don’t want to distinguish between would be immigrants based on potential risks they pose to current citizens, but rather to rely on some sort of racial/blood citizenship? That doesn’t seem consistent with your posting history. I don’t think you are actually like that.

Fgs this isn't about Labour v Tories. It is way more important than that. I couldn't care less about whether it's Starmer or Tories who are most to blame. I do care that the current PM, The most senior MP representing this country has made all those recipients of this vile man's hatred, feel totally unsafe.

maybe if Starmer hadn't tried to claim the credit that it was his government that made this happen as a top priority then the blame game would have been much easier. He certainly gave no credit for this to the Tories. Meanwhile a person with extremist views has been given a platform in the UK and endorsed by the current PM even if only 24 hours.

Sorry. I'll try better next time. Although I'm pretty sure that very few people will rock up to an interesting looking thread and read all 17 pages diligently before posting.

The title seemed to imply that Starmer is wholly or mainly at fault and several posters I saw did seem to agree that it was simply more evidence how Starmer is the biggest villain in the history of the world. This doesnt mean I agree he should "welcome" people who have said and done vile things. Although we do sometimes seem to be in a polarised world where anything less than full throated hatred and disgust aimed at politicians (whether that is Starmer, Badenoch, Khan or Farage) is seem as undying devotion towards them.

I couldn't care less about whether it's Starmer or Tories who are most to blame. I do care that the current PM, The most senior MP representing this country has made all those recipients of this vile man's hatred, feel totally unsafe

I agree completely. I made it clear in my subsequent post that everyone has failed here, including Starmer and that the buck stops with him. But some posters are only really concerned with using this as a stick to beat Starmer with, I'm afraid