Snowball Would Be Proud

I'm not an admirer of Geert Wilders and I don't agree with a lot of what he says, but I pay attention when he speaks because it always strikes me as something that is dismissed as "fringe" today, yet will be echoed in every pub within five years if the problems of a growing, unassimilated Muslim population that seems comfortable with radical Islam isn't addressed forthrightly and honestly. Unfortunately, that seems highly unlikely when Wilders, a democratically elected Dutch legislator, is denied entry to Britain allegedly because it "would threaten community harmony and therefore public security in the UK" when in reality it stems from official fear of the likes of Lord Ahmed, a Muslim Life Peer, who threatened to bring 10,000 Muslims down on the Palace of Westminster if Parliament viewed Wilder's film Fitna–a threat that at least one commentator has pointed out fits the legal definition of treason.

This sort of cowardice on the part of New Labour makes one almost wish that the ban had been done out of the Brown government's usual prissy moral posturing. At least that had a slight tinge of honesty about it. What we have instead is something that hollows out Britain's ancient liberties a bit more while pouring another can of petrol on an already growing fire.

Update: Wilders arrested trying to enter Britain.