UK Bars Entry to Lauren Southern for Criticizing Islam

Canadian right-wing journalist and activist Lauren Southern was barred from entering the United Kingdom on Monday, purportedly over a poster she distributed about Islam in February -- making her the latest international right-wing figure to be denied entry to the U.K. after criticizing the religion.

The U.K. Home Office confirmed to Fox News that Southern was refused entry to the U.K. at the border in Calais, France on the grounds that her entry was not "conducive to the public good."

"Border Force has the power to refuse entry to an individual if it is considered that his or her presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good," a Home Office spokesman said in a statement. The spokesman did not offer specifics as to why her entry was refused.

...Southern said she was detained for six hours at the Calais border port, had her phone taken from her as she was held in a detention center and questioned for four hours in a line of interrogation she described as "bizarre."

"They asked me if I'm a Christian extremist, asked me how I feel about running over people with cars," she told Fox News. "They asked me about Tommy Robinson, asked how I would describe myself politically, asked me how I would describe nationalism."

I'm not kidding about this, but during my questioning by the UK police... I was asked about my Christianity and whether I'm a radical. I was also asked how I feel about running Muslims over with cars.

— Lauren Southern (@Lauren_Southern) March 12, 2018

For people curious, yes I was held under Schedule 7. pic.twitter.com/FWh6n7vElh

— Lauren Southern (@Lauren_Southern) March 12, 2018

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— Lauren Southern (@Lauren_Southern) March 12, 2018

Investigated me under schedule 7 (terrorism act) because of alleged racism. At least they let me identify as Pakistani on my report lol. Still being held by police. pic.twitter.com/LhZFK2d8Jh

— Lauren Southern (@Lauren_Southern) March 12, 2018

*NEW VIDEO*

I am PROUD.

Proud that my government is protecting me.

From returning ISIS jihadists? Meh.

From spiralling violent crime? Meh.

From actual hate preachers? Meh.

No.

Protecting me from Lauren Southern's edgy leaflets.https://t.co/zf7FtJrT7r

— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) March 12, 2018

Reloaded pic.twitter.com/mSEjmVB0Wx

— Orwell & Goode 🇨🇱 (@OrwellNGoode) March 12, 2018

>"speakers corner", not "Speakers' Corner"
>"Your" randomly capitalized
> "Insight", not "incite"
>"have in his possession", not "has"

Welcome to Britain, where illiterate diversity hires will ban you from the country for "admitting" to being in a "right wing organization". pic.twitter.com/5pFOQkWgzo

— Matt Semite (@MattsOurSemite) March 12, 2018

Fascinating that the U.K. Border Force allows so many illegals to slip through the cracks, but it’s suddenly the most competent Border Force in the world when it comes to banning two female conservative independent journalists and an Identitarian activist. pic.twitter.com/JLM9OHOgjP

— Brittany Pettibone (@BrittPettibone) March 12, 2018

This is the detention facility where @BrittPettibone and I were held by the way pic.twitter.com/xfRKIcD1g2

— Martin Sellner (@Martin_Sellner) March 12, 2018

Farage on treatment of Southern, Pettibone and Sellner by UK government: 'In a free society, we should be allowed to criticize religion without being banned'. pic.twitter.com/92w2Vp7eyx

— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) March 12, 2018