Peace Geist
First of all you can resent who you like, personally I would have you resent no one, but obviously you would prefer us to resent those who you resent. “Going public with a viewpoint” is big fat red herring. Privately loving or hating someone or publically doing so has NO bearing on the threat of that person to the country. This is the topic we are talking about.
In you second paragraph your honesty is shining through. You are saying exactly what I am saying, that Dr Zakir Naik has been tactless with his words. However, I’m saying that being tactless is not the premise for being banned to enter a country.
The emotional argument is hence “Because I hate him for his beliefs, even though he still may present no THREAT at all, but I will still agree on his ban and support those who want to ban him, even though I am fully aware that either he is being taken out of context or he has been tactless or both”
This reasoning is what many Muslims are convincing themselves of as justification to support the ban. My views on Dr. Zakir Naik are neutral, I like the work he has done and think he really needs to get some authentic traditional experience with real scholars, apart from that I don’t think the UK will be doing him ‘fair’ justice according to their own standards for preventing him to enter the UK.