Loyalty Bonus

Monday, 22 September 2008 01:00

Bill Carmichael, columnist for the Yorkshire Post writes in response to a High Court decision to deny five former Gurkhas the right to settle in the UK, ('Loyalty Bonus', 19 Sept). Questioning the logic of the decision handed down by the court, Carmichael slips in a remark that could rival the BNP in its anti Muslim prejudice.

'Loyalty and courage don't count, argued the Home Office lawyer. Even if a Gurkha had won the Victoria Cross, he wouldn't be allowed into Britain.

Yet if the Gurkhas converted to Islam, entered Britain illegally, claimed benefits, preached that women are inferior and that homosexuals and unbelievers should be murdered, and persuaded impressionable young people to blow themselves up on the Tube – they'd probably breeze in', he writes.

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