Lawyers for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan went to court in London in a bid to overturn a British government ban on his entering the country. Farrakhan, who has tried to step back from anti- Semitic and racist comments he made in the past, has been excluded from Britain since 1986 on the basis of fears that he would stir up racial tensions if allowed in.
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