Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Three wives for Abu


Mystery this morning over the tabloid revelation that Abu Izzadeen, last week's extremist heckler and guest on the BBC's Today programme, is looking for more wives.
First London's Evening Standard and then The Daily Mail and The Sun have run stories based on a personal ad placed on the Muslim dating and matchmaking website, Muslim Intro, in which a man by the name of Abu Izzadeen, apparently bearded, apparently from East London, and apparently highly ideological is looking for a second, third or fourth wife.
In the profile, which was picked up last week by right wing bloggers looking for more information about Abu Izzadeen, the preacher and troublemaker (above) says he is "the life of the party", wants nine children and is a regular al-Jazeera watcher. The title of the posting? "The Best Enjoyment of This World is A Pious Woman".
If authentic, the posting seems too good to be true. The man thought to be the leader of The Saved Sect, also known as the Saviour Sect, a successor to the proscribed extremist group, al Muhajiroun, says he is "Passionate, Bold, Protective, Witty, Sensitive" and has hazel coloured eyes.
Earlier this year, The Times reported a series of lectures given by Abu Izzadeen, once known as Trevor Brooks, calling for a war to bring Britain under Sharia, Islamic law. He declared: "all Jews and Christians are going to hell fire". But in his profile, he draws attention to his muscular frame and ample facial hair — assuring prospective wives "my beard doesnt grow beyound a certian limit so its not really long" (sic).
Unfortunately it doesn't look like we are going to find out whether the posting was genuine. We note that "Abu Izzadeen" gives his date of birth as April 1st, but then it appears that the ad was created on September 10, well before the preacher's latest brush with fame.
Samson Cooper, the webmaster of Muslim Intro, told us he had no information about the account and that the posting was deleted yesterday, at around noon, to be replaced by its current coy message, which tells us "the user has chosen to make the profile unavailable (may he/she is shy!)"

1 comment:

Miss Chris said...

The Islamic Republic of Britain will probably let him to anything he wants and he knows that. They are too spineless to even attempt to do anything about it. What a bunch of cowards.