Dilemma

For once I feel sorry for our home secretary. She has been placed in a very difficult position regarding the proposed visit of Pastor Jones to to the English Defence League. She can ban him from entry to the country and face accusations of prevention of free speech or allow him in and risk him inciting racist behaviour. Her dilemma does raise some important issues, and I am sure that many people have mixed feelings about the whole thing.
Pastor Jones is a loony and he wants to address a bunch of right wing loonies. I can see no reason for preventing that. No-one has to listen and clearly he can be arrested if his words are seen to be inflammatory. What concerns me is that had he been planning an attack on say Atheism or Buddhism, there would be no fuss and even less publicity.
We bend over backwards in order to appease one particular religious group and it seems that we do so because of fear. We are afraid of the consequences of confronting them and their failure to integrate into our society. Fear is dangerous and the situation will not go away, despite successive government's head in the sand approach.