Whatever shall we do with Pastor Terry Jones?

This just in from Joe.My.God- Terry "let's burn the Qua'ran" Jones has been denied entry to the United Kingdom for being the type of person who likes burning Qua'rans. Simply speaking.
(Let's pause for a moment to consider the irony that I found out about something happening in the UK on an American blog. Such is the nature of modern communication. Moving on.)

The issue this raises is similar to the problem when the UK banned entry to Gert Wilders about a year back. In fact, it's kind of exactly the same. Those who support the entry-denial say that Jones will incite hatred and extremism, those against say that we need to allow freedom of speech for all points of view, even extremist ones.
Which is more important, protecting British people from racial slurs, or preserving freedom for people with minority viewpoints? How do we even begin to answer that question?
It's made more difficult by the fact that when the Muslim extremists that Jones claims to be exclusively opposed to were burning poppies on 11 November, the government allegedly did very little. So preventing anti-Muslim extremism gives the Right a chance to say ZOMG! Pro-Muslim bias!! And, to be honest, they'd have a point.

Okay. Here's my take on it. Leaving the poppy-burning issue for now.
I don't think this is an issue of freedom of speech. Terry Jones' intention when he got to Britain was to address the right-wing group England Is Ours- who are so extreme, the EDL themselves said they didn't want to receive the speech Jones was going to give them. The rally he was intending to address is briefly described in this article, it spouts the usual, ahem, nonsense about only being against radical Muslims, then says something about not wanting any more mosques built in Britain, and suddenly we all know what they really want. People like this don't need to be encouraged by nutters like Jones, add in the nutter-encouragement and it's only going to accelerate the public verbal (and potentially physical) abuse they want to bring onto the streets.
We aren't condemning Jones' opinion. If he calmly stated "I think Islam is evil," then I would argue with him until the cows came home, went out, came back again and died of old age, but I would not ultimately want his point of view to be silenced, because silencing him wouldn't solve anything. With the intended address, however, Jones was ultimately going to incite others to be aggressive and abusive towards Muslims, which is something that needs to be prevented. So yes, the Home Office are doing the right thing not letting Jones into the country.
Regarding the poppies, yes, they should have been prevented from doing that as well, for the reasons above. But the fact that Muslim groups got away with that doesn't mean anti-Muslim groups get a "freebie;" we should move on from the incident and treat hateful rhetoric as it stands.

But ultimately, that's only my opinion. If you want to share your own view, you're more than welcome to share it in the wonderful land of commenting beneath.

Bye for now!