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"?

this sums it up nicely:

https://x.com/christiancalgie/status/2004924947215352150?s=46&t=VO7BWgMBVguGKTtZCKOxtw

‘We spent hundreds of diplomatic man hours negotiating the return of a foreign prisoner who has no personal link to Britain, then on his way back we found out he was a jew-hating psychopath who supports the murder of cops. Then when he got home we let him walk free, unlike Graham Linehan who just tweeted some jokes about trans people and was greeted by armed police at the airport. Oh and while he was on his way home the guy in question was openly attacking the UK government that freed him from foreign prison’

How are you meant to retell that story and not sound like an ‘end is nigh’ fantasist?

usually the devil is in the details what the public get told vs what the security services know etc

Part of the job of being Prime Minister is having to greet and welcome people who you disagree with or dislike. The monarch also has to sometimes pretend to like people they despise.

Why the prime minister put the citizens at risk like this? He is supposed to protect his own country over security concerns.

If so many politicians across the board think he's worth listening to, maybe he's making a bit of a point(?).

Straw manning or genuinely misunderstanding?

So your issue is not with a man threatening extremist violence on multiple occasions but with anyone who notices?

What grift are you part of? Why is it so important to you to minimise this man’s disgusting rhetoric and denigrate those who won’t let the Kier Stammer’s inexplicable decision to announce himself ‘delighted that Alaa Abd El-Fattah is back in the UK’ pass without comment?

From what I have seen, this guy:

Got UK citizenship in 2021 while in prison
His mum was born to Egyptian students studying in the UK and resided in the UK from 0-2 years which is why he was given citizenship (how can that be the criteria??)
He was one of the “leaders” of the Egyptian Spring
He’s been in prison for years
He may be a member of Muslim Brotherhood
He is a raging anti-Semite, racist, mysoginist, homophobe and all round vile individual
He may have a daughter in this counter
He was posting support for the hunger strikers earlier and reposted something slagging off KS for not doing more to get him released

Why are the government so concerned with this person? Did we do this much to get Mandela released?

Here we go. Knew the far right would have to come into it 🥱

The denial is strong with this one.

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Why are the government so concerned with this person? Did we do this much to get Mandela released?

WTAF?🤯😵‍💫🤯

It's interesting that being against Islamist extremism and terrorism elicits accusations of being 'far right'. What a totally bonkers world we live in.

Islamic extremism is far right.

I’m genuinely perplexed as to what is this right wing grift you keep alluding to Thortour?

It is alarming that some Western politicians, media, and human rights activists have sanitised Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s story and ignored his deeply concerning political views.

People have every right to know why British officials are ‘delighting’ in his arrival to the UK when he holds such views and to have concerns over how this may end.

Unless someone agrees with the views expressed by this extremist re hatred of white people, Jews, homosexuals, police etc then I can’t see why they would celebrate him coming to the UK. Whatever their own political views whether Left, Right or centrist.

You would expect this to be something our politicians & the MN community could agree on. At least the vote suggests it is something most of us agree on.

This is not one of those times. He didn't have to apply diplomatic pressure abd he certainly didn't have to publicly celebrate.

And we see you, trying to cover for this horrible man.
We've all seen his tweets now.

Most recent suggestion is that Starmer and co didn't even know about the tweets before their mass SM rejoining.
What a fucking embarrassment.

Yet you're not astonished at the revolting tweets. Left wing grifters berating the OP for daring to start this thread. Same old tactics, try to turn it on its head so the left wing grifter and the other extremist, present as the reasonable ones.

There’s a couple of pp ignoring the tweets, why is that I wonder.