Islam4UK – put up or ban?

Sunny Hundal of Liberal Conspiracy lays out his case for banning Islam4UK, arguing that the group has incited hatred and promoted and incited terrorism. Read his post here. He makes some interesting, and fair, points. However, the one thing he doesn’t address is the counter-productivity of banning them.

Surely you’ll just drive them underground? They’ll still have the same sentiments, harbour the same beliefs, get media attention – they just won’t be an ‘official’ organisation anymore. It’ll become harder to track their activities if you sweep them under the carpet.

Keep them out in the open where we can see them.