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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] More than a quarter of a million Britons have signed an online petition to ban Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump from the country following his proposal to stop Muslims from entering the United States.
Trump, who owns two golf courses in Scotland which he visited earlier this year, called for a complete shutdown of Muslims entering the U.S. "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on". His comments followed last week's deadly shooting spree by two Muslims in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,.
The number of signatories to the petition was growing fast but Britannia's finance minister George Osborne said on Wednesday that Trump should not be banned from the country.
In the past, people have been banned from entering Britannia for fostering hatred that might provoke inter-community violence.
The petition says: "If the United Kingdom is to continue applying the 'unacceptable behavior' criteria to those who wish to enter its borders, it must be fairly applied to the rich as well as poor, and the weak as well as the powerful."
It was launched by Suzanne Kelly, a Scottish-based campaigner and longtime critic of Trump's latest golf course in Aberdeenshire.
Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University said on Twitter on Wednesday it was revoking an honorary degree awarded to Trump in 2010 because he had "made a number of statements that are wholly incompatible with the ethos and values of the university".
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon also stripped Trump of his role as a business ambassador for Scotland, a spokeswoman for her Edinburgh-based government said in a statement.
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