He may be barred from the country. He may also have a heart operation paid for by the same government that may bar him from the country. From the Telegraph, with thanks to Filtrat:
The Government was under intense pressure last night to carry out Tony Blair's threats to expel extremist Muslim clerics after news that one of them was expected to return for a heart operation on the health service.Omar Bakri Mohammed, who is in Lebanon, is due to have treatment at St Thomas's Hospital, just across the Thames from the Palace of Westminster.
Bakri, who has said he would never warn police if he learned of an impending suicide bomber attack by fellow Muslims, is in theory free to return to his family in London as he was granted indefinite leave to stay in the 1980s.Bakri left Britain for the first time in 20 years at the weekend after gaining a Lebanese passport, apparently without the knowledge of the Home Office, to fly to Beirut where his mother lives.
He receives £331.28 a month in incapacity benefit and £183.30 a month in disability living allowance because of a leg injury he suffered in his teens.
Both payments will continue for at least six months while he is abroad, as long as he plans to return, as will the housing benefit on his home in Edmonton, north London, and his council tax benefit.
His wife, who remains in Britain with their seven children, can also continue to claim a benefits package thought to be worth at least £1,300 a month. Bakri drives a Toyota people carrier worth £30,000, paid for under a scheme called Motability.
The preacher is expected to return for an angioplasty procedure. That involves inserting and inflating a balloon in the coronary artery to improve blood flow.
He has been receiving treatment at North Middlesex Hospital, near his home, as well as at St Thomas's.
One of his supporters told The Daily Telegraph yesterday: "He has a heart condition and was scheduled for treatment but I don't know when or if he is planning to return for it."
Bakri, who comes from a wealthy, orthodox Muslim family from Syria, ran a computer business when he arrived in Britain but it collapsed.
As a teenager, he lived in Beirut. He then studied Sharia law at Damascus University before moving to Saudi Arabia.
He was deported and claimed asylum in Britain.
Despite Mr Blair's assurance last Friday that Britain would no longer be a haven for Muslim extremists, John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, said this week that Bakri had committed no offence and was therefore free to "come in and out".
I'd just hate it if the surgery produces a 'negative outcome.'
high potential for disaster if it goes bad
Hmm - they may find when they cut him open that he hasn't actually got a heart. Then they'll try a brain scan. No luck there either.
In the two terms of this shoddy "socialist in drag" New Labour Government, my taxes have gone up 16%.
They needed the money to fund people like Bakri - trying desperately to curry favour with Muslims to buy their continued support at the Ballot Box, showing them that we will even tolerate those amongst them who want to kill us.
New Labour are soooooooooooooooooooooooo naive that it would be Monty Pythonesque if the situation were not so dangerous.
I never wanted the threat of Islamic extremism to come to civil war on the streets of English cities, but with every new drop of appeasement from New Labour, with every new phony declaration of imminent toughness from New Labour, & with every new instance where New Labour Cabinet Ministers show their complete & utter ignorance with regards to Islam & its true intentions for British Democracy I fear that only direct action by the people will rid the country of this scourge of Mohammed.
No action will be taken against Bakri. None of the ten "most dangerous individuals" in the UK arrested this morning will be deported. In fact, with the veritable army of Human Rights Lawyers marching on London as we speak & with Al BBCeera in overdrive, they will probably all get a personal apology & a medal from our dear Tony - oh yes, & a whopping great cheque underwritten by the taxpayer.
We call them the "Benefit Sheiks." But isn't it time we found out who was responsible for letting these people in in the first place - naming and shaming of departments and Ministers wouldn't come amiss right now. They're not even British and receive benefits and housing that many British nationals are denied. How was one of the suspected failed bombers allowed to have a British passport after doing time in a UK prison? He was still a foreign national at that time - it would have been easy to deport him for being of bad character. Or is that British passports are dished out like candy to anyone who wants them?
I agree with that Albion. NULab don't reflect what ordinary citizens think on this at all. Now they are panicking with their usual knee jerk reactions. Asylum and immigration law is a disgrace and absolutely shambolic. It's a mult million pound business too for the low life lawyers who will come crawling out of the woodwork to defend their low life clients and other Benefit Sheiks.
Omar Bakri Mohammed has just been arrested in Lebanon.
Why doesn't he get his surgery in a "palestinian" hospital? Or a Lebanese hospital?
Why should he have to come to an infidel land to get good care? Oh, I forgot...islam doesn't produce anything of value, just hatred.
Carolyn2:
If he did that, he'd have to pay for it himself, instead of getting a freebie from the British government.
CGW
Yes I know that, but what about the superiority of islam and all things islamic? Why wouldn't he rather have a death-threatening surgery by a superior islamic surgeon? Ahhh...again, he may have his cake and eat it too, since there are so many muslim doctors who have infiltrated too.
No one should be surprised: Use, use, use. Of course they deserve to receive benefits because they are Muslims, and we deserve to give them all we have for the same reason.
Wake up and smell the coffee before we are stripped naked and enslaved by these so-and-sos!
AL BBC reported yesterday that Bakri "made controversial statements" about the London attacks.
I think England is in dire need for a new media outlet...
I hope there's a multicultie physician performing Bakri's heart surgery--a convert to the old Aztec religion of pre-Columbian Mexico.
Kepha: LOL!!