The Scotsman (registration required) is reporting that a British MP wants to use Tony Blair's proposed anti-terrorism laws against Pat Robertson.
The Lord works in mysterious ways!
From yesterday's article in The Scotsman, by Hamish MacDonnell (Gosh, I love that name!):
A GOVERNMENT minister has fuelled the row over Britain's proposed new anti-terror laws by calling for Pat Robertson, the controversial American evangelist, to be banned from the UK. Nigel Griffiths, the deputy leader of the House of Commons, said Mr Robertson should be barred from Britain for inciting "hate and murder".
Mr Robertson has been at the centre of a storm in the United States after he called on Washington to assassinate Hugo Chavez, the left-wing president of Venezuela.
Tony Blair's proposed anti-terror laws are designed to prevent some Islamic preachers who back suicide bombers and terrorism from coming to Britain.
The laws would give the government the ability to refuse entry to anyone found to have incited terrorism.
But the Prime Minister did not expect the laws to be used to catch Christian preachers, however radical, particularly those with influential friends in the US Republican Party, such as Mr Robertson.
Griffiths is not concerned how Britain's ally, or Mullah Robertson, will view his attempt to banish Robertson -
"My view is that [Mr Robertson] is frankly not the sort of person we would welcome into Britain. The new law would catch him as someone preaching hate and murder."
And he added: "I think anyone who calls for violent measures against others should not be welcome in Britain. What we need to ensure is that what applies to extreme mullahs applies to Pat Robertson.
"I think, if we did that, we could show that this legislation is not targeted at one single race or religious group."
It appears our friends across the sea are distant enough from the daily media swill we down here in the states to recognize Pat Robertson as the extremist he is.
A mullah is a mullah whatever the book.