Home Office decides

The Home Office decided to bar Hezbollah spokesman Ibrahim el Moussaoui from entering the UK. As reported earlier, Moussaoui was supposed to teach a short course on political Islam to police officers and other government officials.

The Centre for Social Cohesion had threatened to sue if the Home Office did not declare Moussaoui at least as much of a security threat as Geert Wilders, the Dutch parliamentarian who was barred from entering Britain last month. Geert's sin: a short, revelatory film about radical Islam.

From this distance, it's hard to tell just what the Home Office's motives were, but this is a good decision.