The British government barred 22-year-old Canadian journalist and YouTuber Lauren Southern from entering the United Kingdom on Monday under the Terrorism Act 2000. The U.K. Home Office concluded that Southern’s presence in the county “is not conducive to the public good” and accused her of “distribution of racist materials” representing “a threat to the fundamental interests of society and to the public policy of the United Kingdom.” Southern’s alleged racism refers to an incident in Luton at which she distributed a satirical “LGBT for Islam UK” poster, which prompted authorities to accuse Southern of “Christian extremism.” The British government apparently labors under the misconception that Islam is a race. Islam is not a race but rather a religion founded in the seventh century after Muhammad encountered a heretical Christian monk named Bahira on a merchant trip to Syria with his uncle Abu Talib.
Southern’s arrest comes just days after British newspapers exposed Britain’s “worst ever” child sex abuse scandal in Telford, where Middle Eastern immigrants groomed, raped, pimped, and tortured as many as 1,000 children since the 1980s. The Mirror’s 18-month investigation into the child sex slavery revealed “abuse on unprecedented levels,” as well as continuous attempts by British authorities to hide abusers’ Middle Eastern background “for fear of ‘racism.’” One 13-year-old victim pulled out of the investigation because she “didn’t feel she was being emotionally supported” by police. Families of victims were regularly tortured and killed, as when abuser Azhar Ali Mehmood set fire to the Lowe family house in 2000. Fear of reprisal against families kept countless other victims silent and obedient.
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