Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been banned from Australia only days after a visiting Muslim cleric who described September 11 as a 'comedy film' toured the nation.
The 34-year-old British-born campaigner against Islam and political correctness had his visa rejected by the Department of Home Affairs on 'character grounds'.
Yiannopolous learnt earlier this week he had been barred from entering Australia, only days after Egyptian Muslim cleric Dr Omar Abdelkafy had toured Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.
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Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos (pictured) has been banned from Australia only days after a visiting Muslim cleric who described September 11 as a 'comedy film' toured the nation
In 2015, Dr Abdelkafy described the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States as comedy.
'This play to which Muslims are subjected to ad nauseum across the world is the sequel to the comedy film of 9/11,' he said in a video translated from Arabic by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
'The first part took place in New York and the sequel is taking place in Paris.'
He made the comments in January 2015 shortly after 12 staff of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were killed in Paris after it published a front-page cartoon mocking the Prophet Mohammad.
Yiannopolous learnt he had been barred from entering Australia, only days after Egyptian Muslim cleric Dr Omar Abdelkafy (pictured) had toured Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney
The 67-year-old sheikh with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood toured as a guest of the Australian Egyptian Society
The 67-year-old sheikh with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood had described the French terrorist attack four years ago, by Muslim extremist brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, as a sequel to September 11.
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