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UK denies visa to Iraqi nun displaced by the Islamic State

Apr 3, 2018 6:58 pm By Robert Spencer

This makes Britain’s priorities clear, if they weren’t clear already. Pamela Geller and I are banned from entering the country for the crime of telling the truth about Islam and jihad. Recently, free speech and freedom advocates Martin Sellner, Brittany Pettibone, Lauren Southern and Lutz Bachmann were also banned from entering Britain, all for the crime of opposing jihad terror and Sharia oppression.

Meanwhile, Britain has a steadily lengthening record of admitting jihad preachers without a moment of hesitation.

The Muslim migrant teen who bombed the Tube told border officials that he was trained by ISIS, but was admitted anyway.

Syed Muzaffar Shah Qadri’s preaching of hatred and jihad violence was so hardline that he was banned from preaching in Pakistan, but the UK Home Office welcomed him into Britain.

The UK Home Office also admitted Shaykh Hamza Sodagar into the country, despite the fact that he has said: “If there’s homosexual men, the punishment is one of five things. One – the easiest one maybe – chop their head off, that’s the easiest. Second – burn them to death. Third – throw ’em off a cliff. Fourth – tear down a wall on them so they die under that. Fifth – a combination of the above.”

Theresa May’s relentlessly appeasement-minded government also admitted two jihad preachers who had praised the murderer of a foe of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. One of them was welcomed by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Meanwhile, the UK banned three bishops from areas of Iraq and Syria where Christians are persecuted from entering the country.

Britain is, as is obvious, finished.

“Iraqi nun displaced by Islamic State denied UK visa,” by David V Barrett, Catholic Herald, April 2, 2018:

An Iraqi nun who wants to visit her sick sister in the UK has been denied a visa by the Home Office.

Sister Ban Madleen was driven out of Qaraqosh, the biggest Christian town in the Nineveh plains, by ISIS, who took over her Dominican convent. She settled as a refugee in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdestand, where she set up kindergartens. The refugees are returning to their home towns now that ISIS have been driven out.

Sister Ban is not the first religious to have problems visiting Britain, according to Fr Benedict Kiely, founder of Nasarean.org, which helps the persecuted Christians of the Middle East. Another Dominican nun with a PhD in Biblical Theology from Oxford has been refused a visa twice.

The letter from UK Visas and Immigration, a division of the Home Office, gives the reasons for refusing Sister Ban a visa: that she had not provided evidence of her earnings as a kindergarten principal, and that she had not provided confirmation that the Dominican Sisters of St Catherine of Siena would fund her visit. For these reasons, the letter says the clearance officer is not satisfied that she is genuinely seeking entry for a permissible purpose.

Rather than allowing Sister Ban to provide the necessary evidence, the letter, a copy of which the Catholic Herald has seen, ends: “In relation to this decision there is no right of appeal or right to administrative review.”

The letter acknowledges the importance of family visits, and accepts that Sister Ban had previously travelled to the UK and complied with the terms of her visa, but points out that she was issued that visa seven years ago in 2011 and comments specifically on her absence of recent travel to the UK. Fr Kiely said: “Do they not know what happened between 2014 and now?”…

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  1. mortimer says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 7:13 pm

    Theresa May is clueless about Islam.

    • Donovan Nuera says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 12:16 am

      She is clueless about Christianity and about British history in general!!! It is like she, as many of generation, seems to be always trying to please some mythical tweed-wearing, tassled-headed graduate professor in the sky whose whole existence seemed to be to belittle the efforts of the WWI and WWII Generations who could back up their righteous mores with righteous deeds in an understated approach…

    • Anne Smith says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 5:43 am

      Mortimer you are exactly right and this from 2016 says it all. She has since posted another from 2017 and no doubt will continue to drivel on in this way until someone stops her.

      • Granddaddy says

        Apr 4, 2018 at 6:57 am

        So what she’s saying is, “Have a happy holiday eating your sacrificed goat in remembrance of a Muslim Abraham who wasn’t Muslim and didn’t sacrifice a goat, it was a ram.” And then there is all the happy, gushing congratulations on how Muslims have infiltrated the government and industry.

        I understand why an informed Brit might be disturbed by this. Your elected officials appear to have all been brainwashed. Like ours. Their drivel is dangerous. They will not stop until they are voted out.

      • Mike says

        Apr 4, 2018 at 6:13 pm

        Why do the politicians never ask for tolerance from Muslims or any other culture but our own?

  2. Wellington says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 7:16 pm

    Winston Churchill would be so ashamed of what his country has become. No doubt.

    And where has the Queen and Royal Family been in this precipitous descent? Why, living in Nowheresville in affluence and resting upon constitutional precedent, which precedent is currently in the process of destroying the Queen’s nation.

    For all those who aver that the Queen cannot break her constitutional role, I say time is way overdue for her to break her constitutional role and risk all because her present constitutional role is presently part of the problem. One knows this or should know it. Yes, the Royal Family is observing constitutional “niceties” as their country is dying. How smart or courageous is this?

    • Ross says

      Apr 3, 2018 at 8:12 pm

      Not smart or courageous, but keeping up appearances is most definitely English.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 3, 2018 at 8:46 pm

      Agreed, Wellington. The Queen should speak out.

    • Karen says

      Apr 3, 2018 at 11:02 pm

      Wellington says: “I say time is way overdue for her to break her constitutional role and risk all …”

      Yes, absolutely, she should go for broke. She is the head of state, and the state is in trouble. If she loses, well, the monarchy ends a few years earlier, and the Windsors go off into comfortable exile on a sunny island somewhere with hundreds of millions in assets stashed away. If they win….uncalculated benefit to Britain.

    • Donovan Nuera says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 12:21 am

      Her Father at least gave a “Speech” that laid plain what the Realm was up against when the Huns were ascendant against their unprepared troops. Heck! It was of such importance it was made into a movie that won an Oscar!!! Hint, Hint, Your Royal Majesty!!! (Heck, just have Prince Philip cut loose on the Royal Microphone for 2 hours without any restrictions if you are that chicken and forgot your Oath as a SOLDIER!)

      • Donovan Nuera says

        Apr 4, 2018 at 12:24 am

        Queen Margtrethe of Denmark at least made 2 speeches decrying the spoilage of her happy kingdom by jihadists. Then again, have they closed that ISIS boosting Mosque in Grimhoj near Aarhus yet????

    • Gail says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 8:16 am

      Harry is infatuated with Africa. His mum would have married a Muslim has she has time. Who knows what will be next? The movie ‘Darkest Hour’ needs an update.

  3. J H says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 7:22 pm

    We are surrounded by enemies and traitors.
    Unless we do something Britain WILL sink in a pile of Islamic shit

    • Donovan Nuera says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 12:26 am

      “Sceptred” Isle….more “Scuttled” Isle….at least the Royal Navy a single carrier to flee onto….

    • Mike says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 6:17 pm

      Most politicians are enemies of the people need another French style revolution!

  4. gravenimage says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 8:41 pm

    UK denies visa to Iraqi nun displaced by the Islamic State
    ……………………..

    And she runs a kindergarten and just wants to visit her sick sister.

    This story simply could not be more appalling.

  5. Baucent says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 9:07 pm

    They’ve “banned” Sister Ban as she is a potential embarrassment to the fiction of “community cohesion” that PM May and other elites like to promote. Britain is heading towards being a country where Christians are in the minority. Sister Ban’s experiences show what happens when Christians live as minorities in Muslim dominant countries. Heaven forbid! a reporter might ask her about her experiences! Oh no we can’t let her in!

    • Anne Smith says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 5:46 am

      The really disgusting thing about this is that Theresa May likes to portray herself as a God fearing woman and a regular church goer in the Church of England.

      But then perhaps Muslim votes trump everything. Corbyn certainly seems to think so.

    • Ginger says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 7:05 pm

      The UK media wouldn’t be interested in her story. Now if she were Yazidi. . . . When the ISIL atrocities were in full swing, the UK public were only ever encouraged to be scandalized about the Yazidis, never about the Christians who suffered the same fate.

  6. Jack Holan says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 9:19 pm

    Ah Yes Come Ye Muslim Brits trained by IsIs to bring Sharia back to the UK. You Terrorists come return to jolly old England. But a holy Nun who takes in refugees and teaches Children. Alas she’s visiting a sick sister and in the world of socilized medicine it’s iutwith the old and in with the new. We need to make room for Diverity

    In all all serious ness if I were her I’d make a public and Diect Appea to the Queen who has a heart and the Pope who doesn’t have one

  7. Paul says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 9:22 pm

    It’s almost as if the evil scum in charge here have been bought and paid for
    by their recent Saudi guests and are now accelerating the Mohammedanisation
    of the UK at full speed – this latest disgrace, of course, being entirely in keeping
    with that and not in the least bit surprising.

    Far be it from me to conclude something so appalling from all that.

    How I hate them and I hope they burn in hell!

    • Marco says

      Apr 3, 2018 at 11:16 pm

      My exact feelings!

      • Paul says

        Apr 4, 2018 at 1:59 am

        🙂

    • Donovan Nuera says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 12:33 am

      Prince Charles can’t wait to convert during his Coronation and have the imam from Finsbury officiate on the ancient cosmati-tiled dais of Wahhabminster Mosque and use St. Edward’s chair as a commode. He thinks Camilla’s niqab is super-sexy as she borrowed from Tony Blair’s loser sister-in-law…

      • Paul says

        Apr 4, 2018 at 2:15 am

        I’m no royalist, but that’s why I hope the queen lives on for as long as
        possible.
        I don’t know what it is the with Blair family and their islamophilia –
        B.Liar’s bullshit “weapons of mass destruction”, tearing up the
        Middle East and the subsequent gains made by Al Qaeda/ISIS, the
        countless millions dead there and the wave of refugees. Not to mention
        also his policy of mass importing millions of Pakistani muslims into the
        UK, reportedly to “rub the noses of the right (in reality, poorer communities)
        in diversity”. Then, as you say, his loser convert sister-in-law, who in
        no way resembles a man in drag with blankets wrapped around him…

        • Anne Smith says

          Apr 4, 2018 at 5:47 am

          Money is at the root of it all.

  8. Not Dumb Enough says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 9:44 pm

    All the governments of the world are pissed off because “WE THE PEOPLE” did not buy into the New World Order, and destroy the Constitution for their NWO plans. They tried racism, division, riots, fake news, flooding the world with Terrorists who falsely claim they are peaceful, bring in Illegals to override our Constitution, took our homes and jobs, forced bad politics upon all of us. Destroyed our monetary system and created a European debt system. Now the are killing our kids, by using kids to go off the deep end and shoot up schools. The FBI and Police were told to stand down for the soul reason that they staged the shootings to disarm the world. so they will be forced to submit to Socialists and create a Communist World under one dictator.

  9. tedh754 says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 10:34 pm

    Eventually the Brits will realize, for sure too late, that there is no amount of appeasement that will placate the Muslims. Even if they convert, unless they also become homicidal maniacs they won’t be considered true Muslims. I’m afraid their fate is the same as for Lee Rigby. Mass murder and torment.
    ,

    • Donovan Nuera says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 12:36 am

      Unfortunately, most young British only associate Corporal Rigby’s name with “Eleanor”…and women think the silk veils are sexy…and these same women like shsggin cabana boys on the holidays to Morocco and Turkey and then marrying them…

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 4, 2018 at 1:18 am

        Not *all* Britons are like this. More are becoming clued in and starting to stand against the threat of Islam.

        • mortimer says

          Apr 4, 2018 at 2:20 am

          GI, the Home Office is run by GLOBALIST PAGANS.

      • Anne Smith says

        Apr 4, 2018 at 5:49 am

        Very sad, but unfortunately that is true of a certain type of (much) lower class British woman. The sort who was quite rightly arrested recently smuggling drugs into Egypt for her Egyptian “husband”.

  10. Marco says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 11:12 pm

    This upset me terribly! They know she will be killed!

  11. St. Manuel II Palailogos says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 11:17 pm

    The UK lied about Russian complicity in the poisoning of Skripil, they’re completely compromised and done.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 1:20 am

      I’m afraid that Russia has poisoned dozens of people, and has not bothered to deny this latest.

      One can be against Jihad without whitewashing Putin’s barbarism.

      • pete says

        Apr 4, 2018 at 12:48 pm

        I don’t disagree that Putin is not nice and the Russians have assassinated by poison in the West in recent history-I just don’t think that this incident is their style . It has been too public and too careless .I think the Salisbury incident has been about consolidating opposition to Russia in the coming upheavals in Ukraine and could well have been fabricated by the west for that purpose .It also diverts attention from the migrant army heading our way this spring .We are clearly being manipulated here in the UK-I don’t think the end game is clear ,and there could be several separate strands .It does not look good though .

        • Eric jones says

          Apr 4, 2018 at 8:08 pm

          I think May is using this poisoning incident to distract the attention of the British people from Brexit. May is a EU mole to the core.

          Eric

  12. Lydia Church says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 11:31 pm

    They prevent persecuted Christians from entering.
    They prevent those who oppose and expose islamic terrorism from entering.

    But they allow in the islamic terrorists and ‘migrants’.

    They use red tape and bureaucracy to suit their goals and their agenda is clear!

    It is a travesty!

  13. Dapto says

    Apr 4, 2018 at 12:09 am

    Christian hatting Fascist May strikes again

  14. MFritz says

    Apr 4, 2018 at 12:11 am

    Most likely because her story may cause “islamophobic reactions”. You know, like telling the TRUTH always does these days.

  15. Benedict says

    Apr 4, 2018 at 2:04 am

    The psychological strategy that pervades the official administration of Britain is, that by placating the Muslim bully it hopes to preempt violent confrontations. Instead it incurs the secret contempt of Muslims and encourages them to move their positions forward and demand further considerations with respect to their repulsive, prideful and self-congratulatory religion.

  16. Pong says

    Apr 4, 2018 at 2:13 am

    Unfortunately we have to stop being upset. England has gone and we have to get used to it. England passed the point of no return long time ago. Most english people will accept islam and the rest will accept dimmitude. I did my tour “Goodby Europe” 18 months ago.

    • Gail says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 8:28 am

      What did you find Pong??? I was thinking the same thing.

  17. mortimer says

    Apr 4, 2018 at 2:20 am

    The Home Office is run by GLOBALIST IDIOTS without a SHRED of information about Islam.

    The Home Office staff are CLUELESS POLLYANNAS who wouldn’t recognise the NAMES of Islam’s primary source texts, let alone know what is in them!

    They are as ignorant about ISLAMIC DOCTRINES as they are about ADVANCED NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLES.

  18. mikhael says

    Apr 4, 2018 at 3:32 am

    hopefully in the future king harrys wife will speak up

    • Anne Smith says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 5:51 am

      No one from the Royal Family will speak up – they are too interested in keeping their entitlement to the Civil List i.e. the money the Government makes over to them. Without that they would wither on the vine.

    • Ginger says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 7:09 pm

      His older brother William will be king, not Harry. As William and Kate have more children Harry slips down the ladder of importance.

  19. Jayell says

    Apr 4, 2018 at 4:40 am

    “The letter acknowledges the importance of family visits, and accepts that Sister Ban had previously travelled to the UK and complied with the terms of her visa, but points out that she was issued that visa seven years ago in 2011 and comments specifically on her absence of recent travel to the UK…..”

    So what was the reason for that ‘specific comment’ then, or aren’t we supposed to know?’ Why? If one went to a certain place perfectly legally some years ago, behaved oneself perfectly well when there but hasn’t been back since for whatever reason, that’s automatically a reason to presume some kind of ‘undesirable’ status, is it? Since when? I haven’t been back to New York since 2012; will I get a travel ban from the US authorities because I haven’t been doing the rounds of the jazz clubs since then? Am I going to get hauled into an interview room and given the third degree at some airport or train station in France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden or Norway because I haven’t been back to those places in the last few years? I haven’t driven round the M25 to Milton Keynes since 2010, so would the local police on the exit slip road have automatic grounds to presume that I’m some kind of crook?

    Sorry, but unless the authorities have cast iron proof that this lady has a habit of concealing AK47s in her undergarments, this is a blatant malpractice – and they know it. Funny that they’ve allowed back all those lovely individuals who went for a sunshine holiday in Syria recently. No doubt they’ve got information that they were at an extended paintballing party.

  20. DP111 says

    Apr 4, 2018 at 5:45 pm

    Not that long ago, it was common to be assailed by Muslim immigration officers at British airports- some hijabed women too.

    That practice was abandoned as it annoyed to many

  21. Brian says

    Apr 4, 2018 at 6:17 pm

    This is beyond simple Mohammedan favoritism. A great “elephant in the room” when it comes the UK is the deeply entrenched and institutionalized anti-Catholicism in all things despite the great denials of such by England and its apologists. It’s so venom dripping inherent that they can’t even recognize it, themselves.

  22. Eric jones says

    Apr 4, 2018 at 8:02 pm

    The Dhimmi May government denial of Christian clergy into the UK is an attack on Christianity itself. Yet may will let in Muslim hate preachers.

    Eric

  23. 762x51FMJ says

    Apr 5, 2018 at 3:56 pm

    In medieval England a coin for the axeman
    ensured a sharpened blade and a single blow.

    In modern England high taxes to support even greater muslim immigration is tantamount to forcing people to pay for their own assassins.

  24. Regina says

    Apr 6, 2018 at 4:24 pm

    Very bad, but unfortunately that is true of a certain type of (much) lower class British woman. The sort who was quite rightly arrested recently smuggling drugs into Egypt for her Egyptian “husban

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