Lord Fly reports:

22/02/2009 by Lord Fly of Bogland.

I am somewhat alarmed. 

It appears that a member of the House of Lords invited a Dutch politician, to a private meeting in the Palace of Westminster. She had intended to invite her colleagues in the Lords to a private viewing of his ‘documentary’ Fitna, followed by discussion and debate in true parliamentary fashion. She assumed that this still is, after all, a liberal democracy, and that their lordships still enjoyed the rights of freedom of expression and freedom of association, not to mention certain parliamentary privileges for the protection of their function in the legislature.

But no sooner had the unsuspecting baroness sent out her invitations when the Muslim peer Lord Ahmed raised hell. It is reported that he ‘threatened to mobilise 10,000 Muslims to prevent the Dutch politician from entering the House and threatened to take the colleague who was organising the (private) event to court’.

And so the Dutch politician was banned from entering the country and the private screening of Fitna in the House of Lords was cancelled.

Abridged from: http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2009/01/lord-ahmed-threatens-parliament-into.html

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