Louis Farrakhan, the American Black Muslim leader given to anti-Semitic slurs, has again been denied entry to Britain.
The head of the Chicago-based Nation of Islam has been barred, in fact, since 1988, when an exclusion order was issued by the government’s Immigration and Nationality Department.
Farrakhan was originally barred after members of Parliament and Jewish leaders protested his plans to hold meetings in Hackney, which has large Jewish and black populations.
A second attempt to bring him to Britain was announced early this year by Lee Jasper, a black activist from South London.
The black newspaper The Voice claimed last week that another senior figure of the Nation of Islam, Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad, was planning to come here instead, to “wake up” black people.
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