¡¡ LONDON, July 7 (Xinhuanet) -- British Home Secretary David Blunkett said Wednesday the government will monitor the public talks of a leading Muslim theologian who, on a speaking tour of Britain, condemned the Sept. 11 attacks but condones some suicide bombings. 

    The week-long visit of Egyptian-born cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi started Monday. On Wednesday, Blunkett announced that there would be a renewed attempt to make the inciting of religious hatred a criminal offense.

    "We will certainly monitor what he has got to say and what he has got to do," Blunkett told BBC radio.

    "We will keep it under very strict review. There are rules thathave to be applied and those rules will be applied to this particular individual," British Prime Minister Tony Blair also told parliament referring to Qaradawi's visit.

    Arguing his case on suicide bombings on BBC television, Qaradawi said Wednesday the act was justified under certain circumstances.

    Qaradawi, known as a prominent poet, writer and public speaker,has been banned from the United States since 1999. His visit to Britain caused wide criticism but was backed by London Mayor Ken Livingstone and two Jewish rabbis who were in London on Wednesday to hear him speak. Enditem