Soon after the terrorist attacks, about a dozen people from the Middle East and Africa had already been extradited from Britain, including several odious imams who had been preaching jihad in the British capital for years. Prior to that, panic verging on mass psychosis, especially among law enforcement officers, had resulted in the accidental killing in the London Underground of a 22-year-old Brazilian whom police mistook for a suicide bomber. So it cannot be ruled out that the new list of unacceptable behaviours will trigger an intensification of the witch hunt and lead to a sharp deterioration in the situation of national and religious minorities in Britain. On the other hand, clear police work based on the list of unacceptable behaviours could rid the country of any extremists, up to and including various "national resistance fighters".
The British prime minister announced that the rules of the game had changed immediately after the London attacks. Soon the question of amending legislation arose. The idea of creating special anti-terrorism tribunals emerged. In general, Britain has gone on the warpath, where any means are good for victory. And now a new legislative measure was announced - the issuance of a list of actions that are unacceptable in the United Kingdom. According to its authors from the British Home Office, this list can be used to justify the expulsion from the country of unreliable individuals who preach radical views. Only in this way is it possible to get rid of the many-headed hydra of Islamic extremism entrenched in the British capital, which until recently was openly preached by the imams of "Londonistan". According to the Home Secretary Charles Clarke, the new programme will be put into effect "very soon, in the coming days".
The list is primarily about "incitement, justification or glorification of terror", "aiding and abetting acts of terrorism" and "stirring up hatred that could lead to violence between different groups of the population living in the United Kingdom".
In London, they are well aware that such vague formulations are extremely dangerous. What about freedom of expression, television debates, religious sermons? However, unbridled freedom of speech in Britain has already been curbed, also due to the fight against terrorism. After the attacks, the television news broadcasts of British companies resemble promotional videos about the work of the London police.
Meanwhile, a few tentative steps in the new policy have already been taken. First of all, Britain concluded an agreement with the United Arab Emirates on the extradition of unreliable individuals, which was immediately carried out. Ten people arrested on July 11 on suspicion of threatening national security were sent there, where many of them had long been sentenced to death. Note that before the London attacks, charges of terrorism at home did not prevent these people from obtaining British citizenship and living in Britain for many years. Among them is the odious Abu Qatada, dubbed by European media as the spiritual leader of Al-Qaeda in Europe. He lived and "worked" in London since 1993, having moved there after the Omani authorities sentenced him to death for a series of terrorist attacks. Abu Qatada gathered hundreds of Islamists for his sermons at the famous mosque in Finsbury Park.
Given the peculiarities of British legislation (that is, Anglo-Saxon law), the innovation will create a precedent on the basis of which unreliable individuals can be expelled from the country virtually without explanation.
Charles Clarke, meanwhile, is confident that the new measure is in no way intended to "strangle freedom of expression or legitimate debate on religious and other topics". However, not everyone agrees. London Mayor Ken Livingstone, known as a big friend of anti-globalists, even proposed subjecting the new programme to the "Nelson Mandela test". Indeed, what would have happened if such a document had been adopted 25 years ago, when thousands of young Britons who opposed apartheid in South Africa supported the armed struggle against the racist regime, calling for it to be bombed?
The British authorities face a truly difficult task of separating the wheat from the chaff. In particular, even today many of the imams preaching in London speak on behalf of the Palestinian people fighting against the Israeli occupation. Livingstone has already called on the Home Secretary not to expel from the country 79-year-old Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born Qatari, who is banned from entering the United States for justifying Palestinian suicide bombers who carry out terrorist attacks in Israel. However, while fighting terrorism, the British, based on the list of unacceptable behaviours, will have to abandon "double standards" and deport everyone who calls for the struggle for any ideas with arms in hand, including, for example, representatives of Chechen terrorists. The question is whether London will do this or will again apply its own laws selectively.