More than 80,000 Britons as at 12pm today have signed an online petition calling on the British Government to ban U.S Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump from entering Britain after his proposal for Britain to ban Muslims from entering Britain.
He went further to say that some policemen in London fear for their lives and don’t enter some sections of London, saying these sections of the city are highly radicalized.
‘We have places in London and other places that are so radicalized that police are afraid for their own lives.’ Donald Trump said
A petition on the UK government website to ban Trump from Britain on the grounds of hate speech said:
“The UK has banned entry to many individuals for hate speech,” the text of the British petition said.
“If the United Kingdom is to continue applying the ‘unacceptable behaviour’ criteria to those who wish to enter its borders, it must be fairly applied to the rich as well as poor, and the weak as well as powerful.”
As a response to a deadly shooting spree in California San Bernardino by two Muslims whom the FBI said had been radicalised and the Paris Terror attacks, in a statement released to the media, Trump said he was;
‘calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on. Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life.
‘I think that we should definitely disallow any Muslims from coming in. Any of them. The reason is simple: we can’t identify what their attitude is.’
By early Wednesday morning the petition had attracted 35,827 signatures – a number which was rising quickly. The government responds to all petitions that gain more than 10,000 signatures, and if it reaches 100,000 the topic will be considered for a parliamentary debate. A spokeswoman for Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday said that Cameron thought Trump’s comments were “divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong”.
Britain’s interior ministry has the power to ban people from entering the country if they have engaged in what the government determines to be unacceptable behaviour. In the past, people have been banned for fostering hatred that might provoke inter community violence.
Trump on Tuesday defended his proposal after receiving condemnation from around the world, which he said was no worse than those of then-President Franklin Roosevelt, who oversaw the internment of more than 110,000 people in U.S. government camps after Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Britain has an estimated 2.7 million Muslim population, earlier in 2015, the government said that fighting extremism was one of the defining battles of this century. It announced a strategy primarily designed to counter the ideology promoted by Islamic State militants, al Qaeda and other radical extremists