On Dec 30, 2025 at 6:32:27 PM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed an Egyptian with British
citizenship to the UK on Boxing Day after the Egyptians released him
from prison.
Oh, come on. Those comments were made when he was young and in college. Who among us hasn't called for mass slaughter and genocide when we were young? Stop being so judgmental!
Both Starmer's Labour Party and the previous Conservative
government had lobbied for the man's release for several years. It was
only after he was back on British soil that someone bothered to look at
his social media history to discover a series of very abhorrent tweets
that favoured the killing of Zionists and white people.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/30/alaa-abd-el-fattah-british-citizenship-home-office
It boggles the mind that neither government, with their huge
bureaucracies, could be bothered to find out anything about this guy. Or
did they know what he believed and wanted him anyway? We may never know.
Why did the want him at all?
There were immediate calls to strip him of his British citizenship,
which he only acquired because his mother was born in the UK while she
was a student there, and deport him back to Egypt. (One report said that
Egypt was already working on depriving him of his Egyptian citizenship
so that he couldn't be deported back there!)
El-Fattah is apparently already claiming that "Zionists" are behind
attempts to send him back to Egypt. I would think *any* reasonable
person would support efforts to deport him. He further claims to be
sorry for what he said in those tweets. Let's just say I have my doubts
that he'll quietly settle into British society and never be heard from
again.
I get that taking his citizenship away seems like a drastic step and may
not yet be justifiable based on current law but one of the signatures of
Starmer's government is jailing people for mean tweets. Based on that
standard, I'd say El-Fattah has already earned a jail sentence of a few
years in the UK for past remarks. If he really felt bad about those
remarks, then why hasn't he deleted them in the many years since he made
them? Lucy Connolly was sentenced to 31 months for an angry "racist"
tweet she made that she took down herself after just 3 hours. Why is
El-Fattah getting a pass? While jail for tweets needs to disappear, the
Brits haven't yet gotten around to that so it's apparently still the law
of the land.
On 2025-12-30 11:11 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
On Dec 30, 2025 at 6:32:27 PM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> >> wrote:Leo Kearse does a passionate takedown of El-Fattah in this video,
Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed an Egyptian with British
citizenship to the UK on Boxing Day after the Egyptians released him
from prison.
Oh, come on. Those comments were made when he was young and in college. Who >> among us hasn't called for mass slaughter and genocide when we were young? >> Stop being so judgmental!
Both Starmer's Labour Party and the previous ConservativeWhy did the want him at all?
government had lobbied for the man's release for several years. It was
only after he was back on British soil that someone bothered to look at >>> his social media history to discover a series of very abhorrent tweets
that favoured the killing of Zionists and white people.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/30/alaa-abd-el-fattah-british-citizenship-home-office
It boggles the mind that neither government, with their huge
bureaucracies, could be bothered to find out anything about this guy. Or >>> did they know what he believed and wanted him anyway? We may never know. >>
There were immediate calls to strip him of his British citizenship,
which he only acquired because his mother was born in the UK while she
was a student there, and deport him back to Egypt. (One report said that >>> Egypt was already working on depriving him of his Egyptian citizenship
so that he couldn't be deported back there!)
El-Fattah is apparently already claiming that "Zionists" are behind
attempts to send him back to Egypt. I would think *any* reasonable
person would support efforts to deport him. He further claims to be
sorry for what he said in those tweets. Let's just say I have my doubts >>> that he'll quietly settle into British society and never be heard from
again.
I get that taking his citizenship away seems like a drastic step and may >>> not yet be justifiable based on current law but one of the signatures of >>> Starmer's government is jailing people for mean tweets. Based on that
standard, I'd say El-Fattah has already earned a jail sentence of a few >>> years in the UK for past remarks. If he really felt bad about those
remarks, then why hasn't he deleted them in the many years since he made >>> them? Lucy Connolly was sentenced to 31 months for an angry "racist"
tweet she made that she took down herself after just 3 hours. Why is
El-Fattah getting a pass? While jail for tweets needs to disappear, the >>> Brits haven't yet gotten around to that so it's apparently still the law >>> of the land.
complete with lots of examples of his appalling tweets and nauseating
clips of celebrities championing his release from prison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZCzmdx91SM [19 minutes]
I get that taking his citizenship away seems like a drastic step and may
not yet be justifiable based on current law but one of the signatures of >Starmer's government is jailing people for mean tweets. Based on that >standard, I'd say El-Fattah has already earned a jail sentence of a few >years in the UK for past remarks. If he really felt bad about those
remarks, then why hasn't he deleted them in the many years since he made >them? Lucy Connolly was sentenced to 31 months for an angry "racist"
tweet she made that she took down herself after just 3 hours. Why is >El-Fattah getting a pass? While jail for tweets needs to disappear, the >Brits haven't yet gotten around to that so it's apparently still the law
of the land.
I haven't been able to figure that out from the videos I've seen about
this case. Perhaps it was just your standard virtue-signalling? "I've
heard about this guy and maybe we'd win the approval of some voters if
we rescued him". Just a guess of course. BOTH of the major parties need
to answer for this, in my opinion. Of course Starmer is PM now so he has
the power to do something about it so he gets the most heat. (Did you
know that when he was Opposition Leader, he got up in the House of
Commons to demand that El-Fattah be release because he was appalled at >someone going to jail over tweets he'd written? They showed a clip of
this and it was the true height of hypocrisy given Starmer's great
eagerness to do exactly that: jail people for tweets.)
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