Preach Hate and Out You Go

It looks like Tony Blair has had enough of the radical Islamists who've taken up residence in the UK:

Foreigners who preach hatred, sponsor violence or belong to extremist groups could be deported from Britain under strict new measures that Prime Minister Tony Blair announced Friday, nearly a month after suicide bombers killed 52 people on London's transit system.

Membership in extremist Islamic groups such as Hizb-ut-Tahrir would become a crime under the new measures. The group, which advocates the creation of an Islamic state in Central Asia, already is outlawed in several countries.

Blair said the government also would compile a list of Web sites, bookshops and centers that incite hatred and violence. British nationals involved with such organizations could face strict penalties. Foreign nationals could be deported, he said.

"They come here and they play by our rules and our way of life," Blair said at his monthly news conference. "If they don't, they are going to have to go."

Although this new policy is not limited to radical Islam, it's pretty clear that the wacky Imams are at the top of Blair's list. Britain has become a haven for all kinds of Islamic hate groups, and with a couple rounds of bombings in the recent past, and threats of more, Blair and his government have decided to attack the problem by shipping out the troublemakers.

I guess he doesn't have an ACLU to get in the way. If President Bush made an announcement like that, we'd never hear the end of it from every lefty group and Democrat in the country, and lawsuits would be flying.