Pat Robertson recently made some remarks condoning the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez:
"If he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it … We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability."
If one couples the recent UN definition of terrorism as any act
"intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants with the purpose of intimidating a population or compelling a government or an international organization to do or abstain from doing any act."
with Tony Blair’s recent announcement of new rules restricting terrorism-justifying or glorifying speech by immigrants, then I suspect Robertson would be a candidate for deportation were he living in the UK. In the US, however, official reaction to these statements has been rather mild: dismissing rather than condemning the remarks … suggesting that terrorism is in the eye of the beholder.
Another one of the Blair’s proposed new rules calls for "creating a list of preachers who will be kept out of the UK" … I wonder if Robertson will be placed on that list. It would help demonstrate that the UK does not equate terrorism with Islam.