Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism Debate

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Department: Home Office

Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism

Philip Hollobone Excerpts
Tuesday 26th February 2019

(5 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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I thank my hon. Friend for his words. What I can confirm is that if this order is passed by Parliament tonight, it will be a criminal offence for anyone, in public, to wear any clothing or carry any articles, including flags, which will arouse reasonable suspicion that an individual is a member or a supporter of a proscribed organisation.

Philip Hollobone Portrait Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)
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I congratulate the Home Secretary on overcoming the nonsense about there being separate military and political wings. Hezbollah itself has said:

“We don’t have a military wing and a political one; we don’t have Hezbollah on one hand and the resistance party on the other…Every element of Hezbollah, from commanders to members…is in the service of the resistance”.

I congratulate the Home Secretary on laying this order tonight.

Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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I thank my hon. Friend. Again, he has highlighted the fallacy about different wings in an organisation which has only one wing, and that is a wing of terrorism.