LONDON , England ( CNN ) -- Two Americans banned from entering the United Kingdom because the government feels they have been `` stirring up hatred '' responded by slamming the country 's home secretary , and one of them threatened to sue her . Jacqui Smith said she did not hesitate to name and shame those who foster extremist views . Radio talk show host Michael Savage and the anti-gay Rev . Fred Phelps were listed Tuesday among white supremacists and radical Islamic clerics who will not be allowed into the country . Savage , whose conservative daily show can be heard on radio stations across America , lashed out in an audio clip on his Web site and devoted seven stories on his main page to the ban . He is listed under his real name , Michael Alan Wiener . Britain 's Home Office said it decided to exclude the 22 people on the list after measures by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith last year targeting people `` who have engaged in spreading hate . '' `` She has painted a target on my back , linking me with people who are in prison for killing people , '' Savage said . `` How could they put Michael Savage in the same league as mass murderers when I have never avowed violence ? '' Watch more about Savage 's reaction » . According to the British Home Office , Savage is on the list for `` seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence . '' Smith said she is determined to keep those who `` spread extremism , hatred and violent messages '' out of the country . `` Coming to the UK is a privilege , and I refuse to extend that privilege to individuals who abuse our standards and values to undermine our way of life , '' Smith said . `` Therefore , I do not hesitate to name and shame those who foster extremist views , as I want them to know that they are not welcome here . The Home Office named only 16 people on the list , saying it was not in the public interest to disclose the names of the other six . Savage called Smith a `` witch '' in the audio clip and asked why six names on the list were n't released . He also questioned why North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez did n't make the list . Savage said he has seven attorneys working on a defamation lawsuit against Smith and encouraged his listeners to call off any travel plans to England and boycott all British products . Savage 's show is not syndicated in England . The outspoken Kansas Rev . Fred Phelps and his daughter , Shirley Phelps-Roper , also made the list for `` engaging in unacceptable behavior and fostering hatred . '' Phelps did not issue a response on his Web site . However , the site linked to a British news story on the ban and the link called Smith a `` neo-Nazi dyke '' and `` filthy God-hater . '' Phelps and his followers at Topeka 's Westboro Baptist Church oppose homosexuality . They picket the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq , saying their deaths are God 's way of punishing the United States for supporting homosexuals . They have expressed similar views about the victims of the September 11 , 2001 , attacks and Hurricane Katrina . The church 's slogan is `` God Hates Fags . '' Also on the list : . • Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Don Black , who established the white supremacist Web site Stormfront , which the Home Office called one of the oldest and largest hate group sites . • Eric Gliebe , chairman of the National Alliance , one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the United States . The Home Office accused Gliebe of `` justifying terrorist violence , provoking others to commit serious crime and fostering racial hatred . '' • Samir al Quntar , a Lebanese man who spent three decades in prison for killing four Israeli soldiers and a 4-year-old girl in 1979 . Al Quntar is listed for `` engaging in unacceptable behavior by seeking to foment , justify or glorify terrorist violence '' in order to provoke terrorist acts , the Home Office said . • Nasr Javed , a leader of the Kashmiri militant group , Lashkar e Taiba . • Islamic clerics Abdul Ali Musa , Abdullah Qadri Al Ahdal , Amir Siddique , Yunis Al Astal and Safwat Hijazi . • Wadgy Abd El Hamied Mohamed Ghoneim , whom the Home Office describes as a prolific writer and speaker . The Home Office said he has sought `` to foment , justify or glory terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs and to provoke others to commit terrorist acts . '' • Mike Guzofsky , the leader of a militant Jewish group who also has ties to Kahane Chai , a group that the U.S. State Department lists as a foreign terrorist organization . • Russian skinheads Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky , whom the Home Office said are `` leaders of a violent gang that beat migrants and posted films of their attacks on the Internet . ''
Talk show host asks why Hugo Chávez , Kim Jong Il not on list . UK Home Office : 22 people banned from Britain for ` ` stirring up hatred '' Home Office named only 16 of those on the list . Ex - Nazi ##rgan Klansman , Russian skinheads , radical Islamic groups also on list .