Fury at suicide bomb rap

A RECORD label has banned the release of a new rap album because it contains songs about suicide bombers and Osama bin Laden.
The left-wing group Fun-Da-Mental — led by radical Muslim Aki Nawaz — had planned to release the album next month.
But two bosses at Nation Records threatened to resign if the record, which promotes the "benefits" of jihad, or holy war, came out.
Now the rappers are setting up their own label to sell the controversial songs. Last night an angry MP urged police to consider charging the band with encouraging terrorism. The album is called All Is War (The Benefits of G-Had) and includes a track called Cookbook DIY about a suicide bomber.
The lyrics say: "I’m strapped up cross my chest, bomb belt attached, deeply satisfied with the plan I hatched. Electrodes connected to a gas cooker lighter in my hand. The situation demands self-sacrifice, hitting back at vice with a £50 price."
And on other tracks they suggest that the popular Communist freedom fighter Che Guevara and al-Qaeda terror chief bin Laden, far right, have a lot in common. On another song the band predict the end of the United States at the hands of Islam.
Nawaz, below left, who grew up in Bradford, West Yorks, admits the lyrics could get him arrested.
He said: "I’ve already told the lyricists I’ll take all the blame.
"If they’re going to lock anyone up, they’ll lock me up.
"I’ve told my kids, I’ve told my wife that if anything goes wrong with me I want you outside Paddington Green (high security police station)."
The defiant rapper added: "I have no loyalty to any country. There is nothing on the album I do not stand by creatively or lyrically."
But Labour MP Andrew Dismore urged police to consider prosecuting Fun—Da—Mental.
He said: "There is a strong chance these rappers could be charged under anti-terrorism laws.
"The police must investigate. Rappers think what they say is above the law."
Nation Records are distributed by Beggars Banquet whose founder Martin Mills is one of the directors who threatened to quit.