Home Office Civil servants oppose Home Secretary's decision to ban Islamist extremists from Britain

On 30 May 2010, I wrote THIS blog about the extreme Islamist Zakir Naik who had been invited to Britain. Fortunately, Mr Naik's application was blocked by the Home Secretary, Mrs Theresa May, who refused him entry into the UK. The main point of my blog however, was not just that we should stop fanatics from arriving on our shores, but that we needed to look at why such people were being invited in the first place.

Now we learn that the Home Secretary's correct decision to ban Mr Naik has apparently been opposed by her own civil servants in the Home Office, some of whom - according to the Sunday Times - are at best appeasing, and at worst encouraging extreme Islamism in the UK. It is understood that senior officials have criticised the decisions and one has allegedly been suspended for trenchant criticism of the Mrs May.

For this reason, I and some other MPs have written to The Daily Telegraph, condemning the activities of these officials and urging that the Office of Counter Terrorism does not act against David Cameron's determination to root this poison out of our country.

You can read more details HERE.

by Robert Halfon - www.roberthalfon.blogspot.com