Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Hook's son is MC Hamza

JAILED cleric Abu Hamza’s terrorist son is spreading words of hate — as a rapper.
Mohammed Kamel Mostafa’s song lyrics rant about waging Jihad (holy war) and carrying weapons, and praise banned Middle East terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas.
In one he raps: "I was born to be a soldier, Kalashnikov in my shoulder, peace to Hamas and Hezbollah, that’s the way of the lord Allah . . . we’re Jihad through, defend my religion with the holy sword." He also sings of his Islamic "brothers" who vowed to die for Allah.
Mostafa, 24 — dubbed MC Hamza by his henchmen — has played venues ranging from Wembley Arena to Oxford University.
He launched Islamic group Lionz Of Da Dezert last year — and is now aiming for solo success.
The sponger has raked in hundreds of pounds in merchandising spin-offs — while claiming taxpayer-funded benefits worth around £200 a month.
The Sun set up a recording studio in North London where he met our undercover reporters in a bid to clinch a music deal.

Speaking in broken English, greedy Mostafa boasted: "I think I can easily make more than a million. A million is nothing.
"I’ve been concentrating on gigs but there’s a big market out there, trust me. 5,000 people came to see me play at Wembley."
Mostafa revealed he made more than £300 at a recent gig by flogging branded T-shirts and key rings.
He said he had already rejected one deal because he was "only going to get £1.50 per album".
He added: "I want to put out an album for the mainstream market — then make a CD featuring hardcore lyrics."
The Brit-born terrorist — Hamza’s oldest child by his first wife Valerie — said: "My aim is to record and finish three different albums. One is Islamic, one is Middle Eastern, one is hip-hop. I can appeal to three different markets.
"I can also sing in Asia — as well as in Turkish, Arabic and English.
"It took me six months to learn how to produce music. Now I don’t need to go to the studio and pay big money to make a recording. I can do it at home.
"I guarantee you, my music will be popular all over the Middle East — from Egypt to Palestine."
Mostafa, whose stage name AL-ansary means lion, also revealed plans for a music video to be broadcast on TV across the Arab world.
Asked if he hoped to become as big a name as terror chief Osama Bin Laden, he said: "Inshallah" — an Arabic word meaning: "God willing".
He handed our reporters a track featuring lyrics about terror and took the microphone to sing others.
Earlier he had told of his special forces military training in Yemen — where he was jailed for three years in 1999 for plotting to butcher tourists and embassy staff.
He said: "Helicopters, tanks, planes, I can fly and drive them. I’ve a lot of anger inside me. But I’m not scared. Jihad is clear, you fight those who fight you — Muslim or non-Muslim."
The fanatic also hinted that he had bomb-making skills, adding: "If I’m stuck in a place where I really want to escape I can make something up using sugar and stuff."
The extremist stepped into his hook-handed dad’s shoes by ranting outside North London’s Finsbury Park mosque following the radical cleric’s arrest.
Hamza 47, was caged this month for seven years after urging fanatics to kill Christians and Jews.
Mostafa, who lives in a rented room in Wembley, North West London, claimed he was a student on a business course.
He gets a £44.50-a-week jobseekers’ allowance — despite recently selling his dad’s ex-council flat in West London for a £150,000 profit.
Last night Tory MP Greg Hands blasted Mostafa’s music bid.
He said: "This revelation will only add to the taxpayer’s misery."

we ask for your views.


Am I missing the point here? This traitor, dole scrounger and layabout is making profits while claiming benefits. We are bombarded by advertisements on the television for the benefits office.
They tell us that they are targeting benefit fraudsters. Here is a prime example of a benefit cheat. He has been exposed in national newspapers and yet he is still allowed to claim money from the state that he hates so much. What the hell is wrong with this country and its Government departments?
M McCormack
I’ve lived in this country all my life. I’ve served in the British Army and most recently as a private security contractor in Iraq.
If the Hook freak’s son has taken over his father’s ranting and raving, I would love to know what the Government is doing about it.
If I was to start doing this in Manchester, saying we should fight against muslims, I would be arrested straight away for racial hatred and incitement to riot.
These type of people are unbelievable. They seem to get away with everything. It is quite obvious that this guy is earning money but is still claiming benefits. How can this be possible?
We should not have to pay for people like this to have an easy life. It’s time to start getting tough.
David De Souza
Why do we have to put up with these vile excuses for humans? They are brainwashed religious fanatics who don’t deserve the freedom of speech that our relatives have fought two world wars for.
Send them packing. We are fed up of paying for these scroungers who put nothing into our country. Enough is enough.
Do we really need any more racial tensions in our country so parties like the BNP can grow? Deal with the situation Mr Blair or let in a Conservative Government that will.
Mark CodenWembley
Why are we going to work every day and paying taxes, when our Government sits on its hands in regard to these parasites? How can we send our brave soldiers to die in the desert when their homeland is being desecrated by these scumbags?
In the US, even naturalised citizens can be sent back to their country of origin for such anti-social behaviour. Has Britain really become the p**s-pot of Europe? If he wants to be a big star in the Middle East please help him on his way and send him - one way - for an audition for Yemen Idol.
Philip Sullivan
This Government must stop being politically correct and deal with these people.
Tahir Azad
If this evil excuse for a human being hates Western values so much, why is he here scrounging of us tax payers and living the life of Riley?
If Tony Blair's Government does not act now, there will be no Britain left worth fighting for in a few years. The BNP is going to be the ruling party in the UK if he's not careful.
We are dealing with extremists so we can't play soft to win. We have to play hard. I feel ashamed of my nationality.
Paul SmithAberdeen
I really despair at this country. We get new laws daily fighting the BIG issues such as smoking in a pub or fox-hunting. Yet when it comes to acts which can only be described as treason, nothing is done.
I believe that the common decent people are fast reaching the point where they will say enough is enough and there will be a massive backlash. I have lost count of the times when I have just about lost it when reading or watching yet another news report, such as the one here.
I spent 22 years in the Army and have never claimed for anything in my life. Yet these scum are living free off my taxes!

Hamza son's rap claptrap

A MUSIC producer has revealed how Abu Hamza’s son "betrayed" him by twisting his tunes into hate-filled rants about holy war and terror groups.Angry Raj "Rock" Patel taught 24-year-old Mohammed Kamel Mostafa music and rapping — and the pair co-wrote songs for two albums they recorded together.The Sun revealed last Tuesday how Mostafa — dubbed MC Hamza by his henchmen — had changed lyrics on one rap to rant about Kalashnikovs and terrorists.Sikh Raj, 33, said: "I wouldn’t want to be associated with Islamic terrorism. I feel very betrayed."I’m not happy about these new lyrics. He took my ideas and talent and I gave him £40,000-worth of my time for free."Mostafa, of Wembley, North West London, was jailed in Yemen on terror charges. His Muslim cleric dad was jailed this month for urging fanatics to kill Christians and Jews.But Raj had no idea of his past when they were introduced by pals eight months ago. He said: "He picked up everything I taught him really fast."Within a very short time he knew the basics of rap and even how to play the piano."The original lyrics on one rap they wrote went: "I was born to be a soldier, a monkey on my shoulder, now I’m a man, now I’m so much older." Mostafa now sings: "I was born to be a soldier, Kalashnikov in my shoulder, peace to Hamas and Hezbollah, that’s the way of the lord, Allah."Raj, of West London, owns half the copyright and may sue. He said: "It might end in court."

Sunday, February 26, 2006

Muslims 'must accept' free speech

Muslims must accept that freedom of speech is central to Britishness and should be preserved even if it offends people, says Sir Trevor Phillips.
The chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) said we should "allow people to offend each other".
And he suggested that Muslims who wanted a system of Islamic Shariah law should leave the UK.
His comments follow angry protests against cartoons satirising the Muslim prophet Muhammad.

'Absurd or unpopular'

Sir Trevor told ITV1's Jonathan Dimbleby programme: "What some minorities have to accept is that there are certain central things we all agree about, which are about the way we treat each other.
"That we have an attachment to democracy, that we sort things out by voting not by violence and intimidation, that we tolerate things that we don't like."
And that commitment to freedom of expression should also allow Muslim preachers to make comments about homosexuality that are offensive to broad segments of the British population, he said.
"One point of Britishness is that people can say what they like about the way we should live, however absurd, however unpopular it is," said Sir Trevor.
He also rejected the idea of Shariah law in Muslim communities in the UK.
"We have one set of laws. They are decided on by one group of people, members of Parliament, and that's the end of the story.
"Anybody who lives here has to accept that's the way we do it. If you want to have laws decided in another way, you have to live somewhere else," he said.

Iran cleric says Britain behind plots against Muslims

A hard-line cleric in Iran’s parliament accused Britain of being behind plots against Muslims, including the bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in the Iraqi city of Samarra."In these events, the footprints of the British can be seen along with the joint plot by the CIA and Mossad, and it was carried out through several intermediaries", Hojjatoleslam Ali Zadsar, a deputy in Iran’s hardline-dominated Majlis, told the government-owned news agency Iscanews."Insults against Muslims’ sanctities have historical roots and the greatest number of conspiracies in this regard has been carried out by the British", the cleric said."The Muslims of the world must deal with these events with vigilance. Vigilance and wisdom by Iraq’s Muslim people is doubly important"."The chiefs of state of Islamic countries must show more than before their sensitivity to the actions which have been carried out and convince the blasphemers of the world that insults against Islam’s holy shrines and the Imams will have very heavy consequences for them", he said.

Muslim march over shrine bombing

About 2,000 Muslims have taken part in a march in London to protest against Wednesday's bomb attack on a holy shrine in Iraq.
The bombing of the al-Askari shrine in Samarra, north of Baghdad, has sparked sectarian violence in Iraq in which at least 165 have died this week.
The crowds, who marched from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square, called for unity in Iraq and for terrorist acts to stop.
The event, which began at midday on Saturday, passed off peacefully.

'Heinous crime'

Organiser Mohammed Al-Hilli, 27, speaking before the march said: "We hope to achieve two things.
"Firstly, to completely show our disgust and to protest against such an evil and heinous crime.
"Secondly, we want to show Iraqis are united, whether Sunni, Shia or Kurd factions.
"That they will not be led or taken into fighting and not go down a road to civil war.
"The majority of slogans will reiterate our stance against civil war, terrorism and those who committed this crime."

ok this sound like a good start muslims saying no to killings,
can i just draw to your attention that over 10.000 ralled against the cartoons for 3 weeks running, in london.
so my question is which is more important the sacred building or some cartoons.

you decide....

Saturday, February 25, 2006

'The day is coming when British Muslims form a state within a state'

The British daily, the International Herald Tribune published a wake-up call to England, warning the citizens of its fine state of the dangers of Islam.Then, they thought better of it, and took the article down:A wake-up call addressed to the British government by an expert on Islam has been removed from the Telegraph website "for legal reasons".



Patrick Sookhdeo has been canvassing the opinions of Muslim clerics in Britain on the row over the cartoons featuring images of Mohammed that were first published in Denmark and then reprinted in several other European countries.

"They think they have won the debate," he says with a sigh. "They believe that the British Government has capitulated to them, because it feared the consequences if it did not.
The cartoons, you see, have not been published in this country, and the Government has been very critical of those countries in which they were published. To many of the Islamic clerics, that's a clear victory.
"It's confirmation of what they believe to be a familiar pattern: if spokesmen for British Muslims threaten what they call 'adverse consequences' - violence to the rest of us - then the British Government will cave in. I think it is a very dangerous precedent."
Dr Sookhdeo adds that he believes that "in a decade, you will see parts of English cities which are controlled by Muslim clerics and which follow, not the common law, but aspects of Muslim sharia law.
"It is already starting to happen - and unless the Government changes the way it treats the so-called leaders of the Islamic community, it will continue."
For someone with such strong and uncompromising views, Dr Sookhdeo is a surprisingly gentle and easy-going man. He speaks with authority on Islam, as it was his first faith: he was brought up as a Muslim in Guyana, the only English colony in South America, and attended a madrassa there.
"But Islamic instruction was very different in the 1950s, when I was at school," he says. "There was no talk of suicide bombing or indeed of violence of any kind. Islam was very peaceful."
Dr Sookhdeo's family emigrated to England when he was 10. In his early twenties, when he was at university, he converted to Christianity. "I had simply seen it as the white man's religion, the religion of the colonialists and the oppressors - in a very similar way, in fact, to the way that many Muslims see Christianity today.
" Leaving Islam was not easy. According to the literal interpretation of the Koran, the punishment for apostasy is death - and it actually is punished by death in some Middle Eastern states. "It wasn't quite like that here," he says, "although it was traumatic in some ways."
Dr Sookhdeo continued to study Islam, doing a PhD at London University on the religion. He is currently director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity. He also advises the Army on security issues related to Islam.
Several years ago, Dr Sookhdeo insisted that the next wave of radical Islam in Britain would involve suicide bombings in this country. His prediction was depressingly confirmed on 7/7 last year.
So his claim that, in the next decade, the Muslim community in Britain will not be integrated into mainstream British society, but will isolate itself to a much greater extent, carries weight behind it. Dr Sookhdeo has proved his prescience.
"The Government, and Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, are fundamentally deluded about the nature of Islam," he insists. "Tony Blair unintentionally revealed his ignorance when he said, in an effort to conciliate Muslims, that he had 'read through the Koran twice' and that he kept it by his bedside.
"He thought he was saying something which showed how seriously he took Islam. But most Muslims thought it was a joke, if not an insult. Because, of course, every Muslim knows that you cannot read the Koran through from cover to cover and understand it.
The chapters are not written to be read in that way. Indeed, after the first chapter, the chapters of the Koran are ordered according to their length, not according to their content or chronology: the longest chapters are first, the shorter ones are at the end.
"You need to know which passage was revealed at what period and in what time in order to be able to understand it - you cannot simply read it from beginning to end and expect to learn anything at all.
"That is one reason why it takes so long to be able to read and understand the Koran: the meaning of any part of it depends on a knowledge of its context - a context that is not in the Koran itself."
The Prime Minister's ignorance of Islam, Dr Sookhdeo contends, is of a piece with his unsuccessful attempts to conciliate it. And it does indeed seem as if the Government's policy towards radical Islam is based on the hope that if it makes concessions to its leaders, they will reciprocate and relations between fundamentalist Muslims and Tony Blair's Government will then turn into something resembling an ecumenical prayer meeting.
Dr Sookhdeo nods in vigorous agreement with that. "Yes - and it is a very big mistake. Look at what happened in the 1990s. The security services knew about Abu Hamza and the preachers like him. They knew that London was becoming the centre for Islamic terrorists. The police knew. The Government knew. Yet nothing was done.
"The whole approach towards Muslim militants was based on appeasement. 7/7 proved that that approach does not work - yet it is still being followed. For example, there is a book, The Noble Koran: a New Rendering of its Meaning in English, which is openly available in Muslim bookshops.
"It calls for the killing of Jews and Christians, and it sets out a strategy for killing the infidels and for warfare against them. The Government has done nothing whatever to interfere with the sale of that book.
"Why not? Government ministers have promised to punish religious hatred, to criminalise the glorification of terrorism, yet they do nothing about this book, which blatantly does both."
Perhaps the explanation is just that they do not take it seriously. "I fear that is exactly the problem," says Dr Sookhdeo. "The trouble is that Tony Blair and other ministers see Islam through the prism of their own secular outlook.
They simply do not realise how seriously Muslims take their religion. Islamic clerics regard themselves as locked in mortal combat with secularism.
"For example, one of the fundamental notions of a secular society is the moral importance of freedom, of individual choice. But in Islam, choice is not allowable: there cannot be free choice about whether to choose or reject any of the fundamental aspects of the religion, because they are all divinely ordained. God has laid down the law, and man must obey.
'Islamic clerics do not believe in a society in which Islam is one religion among others in a society ruled by basically non-religious laws. They believe it must be the dominant religion - and it is their aim to achieve this.
"That is why they do not believe in integration. In 1980, the Islamic Council of Europe laid out their strategy for the future - and the fundamental rule was never dilute your presence. That is to say, do not integrate.
"Rather, concentrate Muslim presence in a particular area until you are a majority in that area, so that the institutions of the local community come to reflect Islamic structures. The education system will be Islamic, the shops will serve only halal food, there will be no advertisements showing naked or semi-naked women, and so on."
That plan, says Dr Sookhdeo, is being followed in Britain. "That is why you are seeing areas which are now almost totally Muslim. The next step will be pushing the Government to recognise sharia law for Muslim communities - which will be backed up by the claim that it is "racist" or "Islamophobic" or "violating the rights of Muslims" to deny them sharia law.
"There's already a Sharia Law Council for the UK. The Government has already started making concessions: it has changed the law so that there are sharia-compliant mortgages and sharia pensions.
"Some Muslims are now pressing to be allowed four wives: they say it is part of their religion. They claim that not being allowed four wives is a denial of their religious liberty. There are Muslim men in Britain who marry and divorce three women, then marry a fourth time - and stay married, in sharia law, to all four.
"The more fundamentalist clerics think that it is only a matter of time before they will persuade the Government to concede on the issue of sharia law. Given the Government's record of capitulating, you can see why they believe that."
Dr Sookhdeo's vision of a relentless battle between secular and Islamic Britain seems hard to reconcile with the co-operation that seems to mark the vast majority of the interactions between the two communities.
"Well, it isn't me who says Islam is at war with secularisation," he says. "That's how Islamic clerics describe the situation."
But isn't it true that most Muslims who live in theocratic states want to get out of them as quickly as possible and live in a secular country such as Britain or America? And that most Muslims who come to Britain adopt the values of a liberal, democratic, tolerant society, rather than insisting on the inflexible rules of their religion?
"You have to distinguish between ordinary Muslims and their self-appointed leaders," explains Dr Sookhdeo. "I agree that the best hope for our collective future is that the majority of Muslims who have grown up here have accepted the secular nature of the British state and society, the division between religion and politics, and the importance of allowing people to choose freely how they will live.
"But that is not how most of the clerics talk. And, more significantly, it is not how the 'community leaders' whom the Government has decided represent the Muslim community think either.
"Take, for example, Tariq Ramadan, whom the Government has appointed as an adviser because ministers think he is a 'community leader'. Ramadan sounds, in public, very moderate. But in reality, he has some very extreme views. He attacks liberal Muslims as 'Muslims without Islam'. He is affiliated to the violent and uncompromising Muslim Brotherhood.
"He calls the education in the state schools of the West 'aggression against the Islamic personality of the child'. He has said that 'the Muslim respects the laws of the country only if they do not contradict any Islamic principle'. He has added that 'compromising on principles is a sign of fear and weakness'."
So what's the answer? What should the Government be doing? "First, it should try to engage with the real Muslim majority, not with the self-appointed 'community leaders' who don't actually represent anyone: they have not been elected, and the vast majority of ordinary Muslims have nothing to do with them.
"Second, the Government should say no to faith-based schools, because they are a block to integration. There should be no compromise over education, or over English as the language of education. The policy of political multiculturalism should be reversed.
"The hope was that it would to ensure separate communities would soften at the edges and integrate. But the opposite has in fact happened: Islamic communities have hardened. There is much less integration than there was for the generation that arrived when I did. There will be much less in the future if the present trend continues.
"Finally, the Government should make it absolutely clear: we welcome diversity, we welcome different religions - but all of them have to accept the secular basis of British law and society. That is a non-negotiable condition of being here.
"If the Government does not do all of those things then I fear for the future, because Islamic communities within Britain will form a state within a state. Religion will occupy an ever-larger place in our collective political life. And, speaking as a religious man myself, I fear that outcome."

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Iran claims new bomb planted by Britain

Tehran, Iran, Feb. 20 – Iran said on Monday that Britain was behind a blast that had gone off in the south-western city of Ahwaz on Sunday night which was similar to several recent explosions in the volatile city.
State-run news agencies reported that there were no casualties when the sound bomb went off in Kian Pars district of Ahwaz.
Seyyed Nezzam Mollahoveizeh, the Majlis deputy for Dasht-Abad, told the news agency Fars that the Intelligence Ministry had been able to arrest a number of individuals behind Sunday’s bombing and accused them of having ties to London.
"The mother of all corruption Britain has become an opponent of Iran. Our opponents are supported and empowered in London", he said....
London has repeatedly denied any involvement in the attacks.

Alert from Iran Focus,

Migrants use gay marriage loophole

LAWYERS are prepared to advise potential immigrants how to gain British citizenship by signing up for "gay marriages" even if they are heterosexual.
Undercover reporters were told by six different firms of solicitors how to exploit a loophole in the civil partnership rules to get passports.
Immigrants face less rigorous tests if they seek to gain British citizenship through a civil partnership than through a heterosexual marriage.
Under laws that took effect last December, gay people have the same immigration rights as married people — and may secure a full passport after two years in the country.
However, while marriages have to be consummated to qualify there is no such requirement on couples in a civil partnership. It is thus not illegal for two heterosexual friends to form a civil partnership and then to "divorce" after two years once the foreigner has gained British citizenship.
Last week register offices in London, Essex and Leeds recorded 27 foreigners out of a total of 217 people who had declared their intention to form a civil partnership. Six out of 14 recorded at Bristol involve a foreigner who could be eligible for British citizenship.
Several firms of immigration lawyers advertise their services in gay publications and some solicitors explain on their websites the immigration benefits of civil partnerships...

Asylum seeker can stay with lover

Fanatics tell Muslim singer: We'll kill you

A Muslim pop singer has been forced to hire bodyguards to protect her during a visit to Britain next month after she received a string of death threats from religious extremists.
US-based Deeyah is due in London next month to promote a new single and video, released tomorrow. But the track "What Will It Be?" has already outraged hardline Islamists here as it promotes women's rights.
Her performances with a clutch of male dancers and revealing outfits have also deeply offended many Muslims. In one scene in her latest video, the singer drops a burqa covering her body to reveal a bikini.
That has attracted vitriol from some quarters. The 28-year-old singer claims that in the past she has been spat upon in the street and told that her family would be in danger if she did not tone down her work. The situation is now so bad that Deeyah feels she cannot visit Britain without protection. "I can no longer walk around without specially assigned bodyguards," she told The Independent on Sunday. "I would be lying if I said abuse from religious fanatics didn't upset or scare me."...

Deeyah's What Will It Be

Monday, February 20, 2006

Give medal to hero cop

THE Sun is campaigning for murdered cop Stephen Oake to be awarded the George Cross medal for bravery.
The hero detective was stabbed to death when he protected colleagues from a vicious al-Qaeda terrorist.
But officers have been left “sickened” after DC Oake’s actions were considered not enough by the Government to earn the George Cross.
Now the Sun is asking readers to sign up to our online petition by clicking on the link below.
The petition will then be forwarded to Downing Street to pressure Prime Minister Tony Blair to award the medal to the brave detective.

sign here

Father-of-three DC Oake died aged 40 from multiple stab wounds in January 2003.
He was attacked by Algerian Kamel Bourgass as he went to the aid of other officers raiding the flat of terror suspects in Manchester.
Sgt Paul Kelly, of Greater Manchester Police Federation, said denying the medal to DC Oake was "an insult" to Stephen, his family and every police officer.
He added: "He intervened — unarmed and wearing no protective equipment. Officers stated on oath he saved their lives.
"To deem these actions as not worthy of a gallantry award is indefensible."
The George Cross is the highest civilian award for gallantry. We urge Tony Blair to award it to DC Oake.

Sunday, February 19, 2006

WHERE WAS THE MUSLIM OUTCRY OVER BOMBINGS? FATHER ASKS


- The father of New Zealander Shelley Mather who was killed in the Islamic militant bombings in London last year has hit out at the Muslim outcry over cartoons of the prophet Mohammed.
Auckland barrister John Mather said that Muslims were being far too ``precious'' over what was simply ``ink sketchings on paper''.Ms Mather was killed by a terrorist bomb at Russell Square as she travelled the Picadilly line in July last year.Yesterday her father spoke of his bemusement at the worldwide outrage over the cartoons of the prophet appearing in a Danish newspaper.``If anybody has reason to feel aggrieved, it is Shelley's extended family,'' Mr Mather said.He said that apart from a couple of e-mails from Muslims overseas he had received no apology over Shelley's murder and ``wasn't invited to Muslim Awareness week''.And with the exception of some Canadian mullahs, he had never seen an unequivocal renunciation of what was done.It was particularly distressing for him that the people who committed the murders in London had been given sanctuary in England and were provided with opportunities not otherwise available to them.``I understand that one of the bombers is now in a tomb in Pakistan with an armed guard and treated as a martyr.``I find that to be a bit of a contradiction and an endorsement of murdering innocent people and an acceptable way of carrying on.``The bottom line is they were just killers, either misguided or purposely misdirected by someone but it doesn't alter the fact as to what they were.''Mr Mather, who described himself and Shelley's family as liberals, said it was impossible to reconcile the feeble response from the Islamic world to the London killings with the worldwide rallies by irate Muslims protesting over the Danish cartoons.``I have a little bit of difficulty in marrying up the reaction to these murders and the outcry now about ink on paper -- it is simply because of some ink sketchings on paper. I think there is a world of difference between the two.''While there were no doubt millions of Muslim adherents who led a peaceful life, there were many others who were giving Islam a ``bad press''.He cited terrorism, theocratic tyranny, subjugation of women, intolerance of criticism, persecution of moderate Muslims and fear of Western culture.Mr Mather said that tolerance and accommodation were not things that arose out of threats of violence.``There has been a certain view that it was irresponsible to publish the cartoons because of the violent reaction and that we should be more tolerant and considerate society. But we are. That cuts both ways and it is not appropriate to be silent because of threats.''Mr Mather said that the mass rallies by Muslims demonstrated a value system that was ``archaic''.``If your first response is to kill people or behead them, there is no room for that in this day and age and certainly no room for it in our society and no room for making decisions based on fear of that. . .``We've been very dignified in the way we've responded to our loss; I can't help but contrast that with the yelling and screaming that we see.''

HOOK LEGAL FIGHT COSTS YOU £250K


Taxpayers face new Hamza bill

The hook-handed cleric is determined to avoid facing serious terror charges in the US and has vowed to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights.
Hamza, 47, began a seven-year jail term at Belmarsh Prison in south-east London earlier this month for inciting murder and racial hatred.
But a Belmarsh source told The People: "He is boasting he will be out in less than two years and says he will take the taxpayer to the cleaners.
"He is determined to exhaust every avenue before he can be extradited. He knows how to use the system as he has been abusing it for years."
The US wants Hamza on a number of terror charges including taking hostages. Legal sources say his fight to avoid extradition on release from Belmarsh could cost at least £250,000. Hamza was sent to the top-security jail after a month-long trial at the Old Bailey. Since then the Legal Services Commission has been probing his assets so it can recoup the public funding of his defence costs.
Hamza sold a flat in West London for £228,000 in September 2004 while being held on remand.
Before his arrest he had lived with his wife and seven children in a nearby council house worth £550,000. Since 1993 Hamza is estimated to have cost the taxpayer £300,000 in benefits.
Hamza has continued to rant inside Belmarsh. Our source said: "He is still preaching in corridors and in association periods while in prison.
"Something needs to be done to stop him influencing impressionable young men." The arrogant cleric is said to refer to Home Secretary Charles Clarke as a "fat pig", while telling warders he only takes orders from God.

phil.nettleton@people.co.uk

STOP FUNDING THIS PREACHER OF HATE



HOOK-HANDED cleric Abu Hamza has tested the patience of a nation with his racist ranting.
It cost him a seven-year jail stretch which everyone hoped might stop him spouting bile at every opportunity.
It is costing taxpayers a small fortune to keep the preacher of hate where he belongs in a top-security prison.
But as The People reveals today, the bill will soar by £250,000 as Abu Hamza launches a new legal battle.
Taxpayers will be forking out yet again as he gets legal help to fight attempts to extradite him to the United States.
All this cash goes to a man who has used the benefits system to help fund his web of terror.
He even managed to flog his council house for a fat profit while behind bars.
Of course it is right and just that people should not be denied some help to fund their legal cases.
But it would be hard to find a less deserving use of public cash than showering it on Abu Hamza and his legal team.
Much of the money would come from the same ordinary, decent people who have endured his vile rants and attacks on their race or religion for years.
The Government and legal chiefs must put every possible check in place before any cash is handed over to this madman.
Abu Hamza should be forced to pay for his campaign by emptying his own pockets and bank accounts first.
If there is any justice in the world, he won't get a single penny from us until then.

Poll reveals 40pc of Muslims want sharia law in UK

Four out of 10 British Muslims want sharia law introduced into parts of the country, a survey reveals today.




The ICM opinion poll also indicates that a fifth have sympathy with the "feelings and motives" of the suicide bombers who attacked London last July 7, killing 52 people, although 99 per cent thought the bombers were wrong to carry out the atrocity.

Islamic law is used in large parts of the Middle East, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, and is enforced by religious police. Special courts can hand down harsh punishments which can include stoning and amputation.
Forty per cent of the British Muslims surveyed said they backed introducing sharia in parts of Britain, while 41 per cent opposed it. Twenty per cent felt sympathy with the July 7 bombers' motives, and 75 per cent did not. One per cent felt the attacks were "right".

Nearly two thirds thought the video images shown last week of British troops beating Iraqi youths were symptomatic of a wider problem in Iraq. Half did not think the soldiers would be "appropriately punished".
Half of the 500 people surveyed said relations between white Britons and Muslims were getting worse. Only just over half thought the conviction of the cleric Abu Hamza for incitement to murder and race hatred was fair.
Mr Khan, the MP for Tooting, said: "We must redouble our efforts to bring Muslims on board with the mainstream community. For all the efforts made since last July, things do not have appear to have got better."

He agreed with Sir Iqbal that the poll showed Muslims still had a "big gripe" about foreign policy, particularly over the war on terror and Iraq.
David Davis, the shadow home secretary, said: "It shows we have a long way to go to win the battle of ideas within some parts of the Muslim community and why it is absolutely vital that we reinforce the voice of moderate Islam wherever possible."

A spokesman for Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, said: "It is critically important to ensure that Muslims, and all faiths, feel part of modern British society. Today's survey indicates we still have a long way to go… [but] we are committed to working with all faiths to ensure we achieve that end."


Saturday, February 18, 2006

Britain hasn't got involved so can someone tell me why this just won't go away.

3rd weekend of muslim demo in london

'Thousands' due at cartoons demo Thousands of Muslims are expected to join a protest in London over cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad.

The Muslim Action Committee - an umbrella group for mosques, community leaders and groups - will lead a march from Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park.
They will launch a charter supporting a ban on religious discrimination.
It is the third consecutive week of protests in the capital - last weekend some 5,000 people took part in a peaceful pro-Islam gathering.
Organisers from the committee say they will have 400 stewards to control the demonstration.
Protests against the cartoons, first printed in Denmark, have taken place in Muslim countries across the world.
Outbreaks of violence across Pakistan have prompted Denmark to temporarily close its embassy in Islamabad.
Last week protesters waved banners calling for unity against Islamophobia in a peaceful demonstration.
Guest speakers at that event included Respect MP George Galloway and Ben Kent, friend of British hostage Norman Kember.
The Muslim Council of Britain along with the Muslim Association of Britain and a number of Christian groups, peace organisations and the Mayor of London helped organise that protest.
The event was intended to highlight the opinions of moderate Muslims after demonstrators earlier this month carried placards threatening violence through the capital.
Among the images which have sparked outcry is one of Muhammad with a bomb-shaped turban on his head.
Newspapers in Spain, Italy, Germany and France reprinted the material.

ok the facts.


The fake rally


The BBC report on the "United against Incitement and Islamophobia" rally planned for Trafalgar Square"The rally ... wasx organised by the Muslim Council of Britain, the Muslim Association of Britain and a number of Christian organisations."Well, yes. Two minor inaccuracies and a curious omission. According to main organisers the Muslim Association of Britain and the Islamic Forum of Europe, the MCB are 'supporters', not organisers.Secondly the 'number of Christian organisations' appears to be one - Pax Christi, a 'peace group' wholly focused on Palestine and the Middle East. (UPDATE - I'm sure their presence is nothing to do with the fact that a trustee of their educational arm, Norman Kember, is currently an enforced guest of the Swords of Truth Brigade in Iraq. Hat-tip to Rick in the comments).The curious omission? The appearance of the Socialist Workers Party front the Stop the War Coalition, or the state-funded Operation Black Vote is not unexpected. But surely the fact that the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament considers the suppression of cartoons of Mohammmed a part of its campaigning work is newsworthy? I'd have asked them for an interview.UPDATE - just a thought. Has the BBC website not realised yet that the cartoons were published in Egypt last October? I can't see the story anywhere.thanks Laban

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Friday, February 17, 2006

TERROR FOR 50 YEARS


Top cop warns of al-Qaeda battle 60 suspects & 500 fanatics in UK .

BRITAIN faces a 50-year war on terrorism, the Yard's anti-terror boss warned yesterday. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke said the nation was facing "unprecedented" levels of threat from "well-trained", home-grown terrorists. Ridiculing claims it could take five to 10 years to beat Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, he said: "That's hopelessly optimistic. Al-Qaeda are believed to have talked of plans over the next 50 years." Mr Clarke disclosed that more than SIXTY suspects are now awaiting trial on terror charges in the UK, and said a large number were planning attacks in the wings. Police believe there could be up to 500 fanatic terrorists in the country. The police chief's grim warning was echoed by Security Minister Hazel Blears who confirmed that the war on terror was a long-running struggle. She said: "We all had a genuine hope that terrorism would be a temporary phenomenon. I think probably we're in a different position now." Mr Clarke and the minister were speaking at a conference in London where the Met boss said the number of terror suspects held was running at an "unprecedented level". With memories of the 7/7 bombings in London still fresh, he said: "The terrorism we are now combating has its roots in this country. "We're seeing many, many British citizens engaged in it." They were "well trained, highly motivated and confident of achieving their goals". Mr Clarke added: "We have to expect the threat of terrorism to be with us for many years." Urging better co-ordination to combat the threat, he said: "London has the only substantial resource dedicated to the investigation of terrorism. The events of last July showed this is no longer appropriate. We need some form of national structure." The Government's new Serious Organised Crime Agency comes into being in April with a £400million annual budget - but it does not have a specific anti-terror role. Mr Clarke attacked laws which prevented the public being told the full scale of the threat they face. He said it was "immensely frustrating" to have to wait three years to publish details of items uncovered at the Finsbury Park hate mosque during a police search in January 2003. Officers could not reveal the discovery of chemical protection suits, pistols, a stun gun and CS canister until radical cleric Abu Hamza was convicted last week. Mr Clarke said: "We wanted to be able to reassure the public that we did not lightly take the step of entering a place of worship. But it was three years before we could offer that reassurance." In a wide-ranging speech he called for anti-terror stop-and-search powers to be tightened to avoid alienating ethnic minorities. He also said juries should be trusted with more information than at present allowed. Mr Clarke's hard-hitting comments came after the Commons passed a controversial law banning the "glorification" of terror. They also followed a warning from Lord Carlile, the Government's terror watchdog, that about 20 preachers of hate were still operating in Britain

Protester dumps family

THE organiser of London’s Muslim cartoon protests has gone abroad to fight holy war — leaving taxpayers to foot the bill to keep his family.
Anjem Choudary, 38, walked out on Rubana Akhgar to launch a new Islamic fundamentalist group in Lebanon.
But his wife will not have to worry about money when he’s gone — she gets £1,700-a-month in state handouts.
And Choudary himself raked in thousands in benefits for years while plotting to destroy British society.
Rubana, 34, was heartbroken after he followed his evil hero Omar Bakri to Lebanon.
Choudary returned to organise the Danish Embassy outrage, where protesters carried banners proclaiming: "Behead Those Who Insult Islam."
He found time to visit Rubana, sons Luqman, six, and Hediyah, one, and daughter Bintanjan, eight, amid fury over the protests.
But he left his Muslim wife in tears by vowing to go back to Lebanon soon to accelerate his campaign of "Jihad".
She told a friend: "We wanted him to stay but there’s nothing I can do to stop him. He’s thrown himself into leading this new Muslim group and doesn’t live here any more. We will miss him but we’ll be OK on housing benefit and income support."
Rubana gets around £1,000-a-month housing benefit, £360 income support, £160 child benefit and £192-a-week child tax credits.
Her husband claimed £202-a-month income support until last September.
Choudary — son of a Kent market trader — has plunged himself into leading Al-Ghurabaa, a group which preaches to young Muslims and verbally attacks Western democracy.
He used to help poisonous preacher Bakri run the now defunct extremist group Al Muhajiroun, which wants to turn Britain into an Islamic state.
Lawyer Choudary quit his job at a London solicitor’s firm after being seduced by Bakri’s twisted creed. He claimed thousands in income support, job seeker allowance and housing benefit.
The bearded fanatic first achieved notoriety in 2001 by describing the September 11 bombers as "heroes". He hit the headlines again in 2003 after calling the Colombia Space Shuttle disaster "an act of God" and saying Muslims would not be shedding any tears.
Choudary sparked fury by defending the embassy protests over the Danish cartoons of the prophet Mohammed earlier this month.He crowed to Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman that Britain belongs to Allah.
Choudary has been staying with his British-born wife and their children for several days at their rented ground-floor flat in East London.
Most of his trips out have been with his family to the local mosque.He now wears an unkempt beard and traditional Shalwar Kameez robes.
Quizzed outside the home yesterday, Choudary warned sternly: "You’ve made a big mistake coming here."
IN BEIRUT, Bakri has warned Britain could be the target of another terror attack as a result of the cartoon row.
Bakri fled Britain last summer amid calls for him to face treason charges

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Radical sheikh makes his return


Sheikh Omar Bakri back online, slams anti-Muslim alliance of 'pigs', says Hizbullah 'is not real'


Extremist Islamist leader Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad, banned from Britain after encouraging young Muslims to become suicide bombers, has broken his radio silence and reestablished contact directly with his UK followers from his new home in Beirut, Lebanon.
Six months before the July 7, 2005 London bomb attacks, Syrian-born Bakri told followers on an Internet chat room to join al-Qaeda, and instructed his listeners to commit acts of terrorism "wherever you are," citing the end of a "covenant of security" with Britain.
On February 13 and 14 of this year, Bakri returned to the same chat room. "The covenant (of security) has been restored," Bakri said on Tuesday evening, February 14. "Now tomorrow, there could be a change of the situation of the reality in Britain and you can do the jihad physically. It's not something rigid. The situation keeps changing," he warned.
Bakri said British Muslims should refrain from carrying out terror attacks on Britain, due to the British government's decision not to implement a number of anti-terror laws, but made it clear the 'ceasefire' was very fragile.
"I can see nowadays, they (the UK government) back down on a lot of things, and they are really giving a sense of security to the Muslim community in Britain. But now, if tomorrow (the British government) issues another new law, if they start to arrest you, and start to attack Muslims, this immediately is another situation," he said.
Bakri also called for Danish cartoonists who drew images of Islam's prophet Muhammad to be killed.
'Hatred will reign forever'
The sheikh's followers appeared excited by Bakri's online return. One user, with the screen name al-Ghurabaa, the name of the group formed by Bakri's British followers, said that sending petitions against the cartoons was useless. "Unless the petition is gonna have anthrax on it then forget about it," he wrote.
Barki spoke of an "alliance of kuffars (unbelievers)," between the "pigs of the Jews and Christians."
"The animosity of the Jews and Christians is going to be always there. And in particular the Jews," said Bakri.
Quoting the Koran, Bakri said: "Verily, you will find the strongest among men in enmity to the believers (Muslims) the Jews and those who are al-Mushrik (unbelievers)."
Speaking of the struggle between the "two camps" of Muslims and non-Muslims, Bakri declared: "The kuffar are one nation all of them together, communists, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, and Jews, Christians, and we are so happy to see them all gathered together against us, because that shows us that we are on the right path. Therefore we should declare day and night to those kuffar, who worship the cow and those who worship the cross declare to them: We reject you. We disbelieve in you. We completely distance ourselves from you. And between us there is going to be animosity and hatred forever until you worship Allah exclusively."
Bakri then slammed British Muslim organizations, "those who claimed to be Muslims," describing them as "the fifth column who live among us who puts his fingers with the hands of the kuffars," naming the Muslim Council of Britain, and the Muslim Association of Britain, among others.
'Hizbullah just a propaganda machine'
Turning his attention to his new home country of Lebanon, Bakri, who promotes a fundamentalist Sunni Islamist interpretation, attacked Hizbullah as an Iranian puppet designed to promote Shiite Islam. He expressed frustration with what he said was Hizbullah's "propaganda" and "monopolization" of southern Lebanon.
"The reality is, Hizbullah, it is in my opinion, besides that it is Shiite and has allegiance to Iran and has alliance with Syria what people do not know, Hizbullah is a media platform. It is not a real organization that has a real military objective to liberate anything," he said.
Bakri, who participated in an Islamist attempt to overthrow the secular regime of Syria, once again attacked the Syrian government, saying: "Syria, the one that guarantees the security of Israel in south Lebanon, by not letting mujahadeen (holy warriors) go from there to attack. Because they put on the border Hizbullah, and Hizbullah prevents everybody, they don't want anyone there except for them, in order to monopolize the issues of so called resistance in jihad in south Lebanon they lose all credibility. I'm witnessing that in Lebanon now."
"I found it (Hizbullah) just people who want to promote Shiism and promote their own views and ideas, and make the Muslims weaker and weaker. They call for democracy, they call for secularism, they make alliance with the Kuffar. I don't feel Hizbullah has any agenda to liberate any land," he lamented.
'Hizbullah exaggerates attacks on Israel'
"Why is it allowed for Hizbullah to bomb Tel Aviv and to bomb Israel but it's forbidden for others?" Bakri asked. "I can tell you why. Simply because all the rockets Hizbullah launch is part of the framework of normal military exercise between Hizbullah and Israel. This is a necessary tool for propaganda in order to say that Shiites in Lebanon are fighting and to promote Shiism, which is really led by Iran," he said.
"Nasrallah said, you see, we throw at Israel 500 rockets; 500 rockets?! What are you talking about. You see, they throw two missiles, and they say 500 missiles. You can see how they exaggerate things achieving nothing. Hizbullah leaders say they have obedience, to whom? To Christian Maronites, to Lebanese government. Which itself is another tool, to implement kuffar (infidel) law, and alliance with the Syrian regime." Bakri added.
Bakri also mocked Hizbullah's claim that the disputed Sheba farms area, currently under Israeli control, is in fact Lebanese territory.
"All that they are talking about is they want to liberate Lebanese land. And by the way brothers, I can tell you something, don't say it to anyone, there is none of the Lebanese land under occupation left. Sheba farms, the Lebanese people say it belongs to Syria."

BBC Spooked by al-Qaeda

BBC bosses are ready to AXE a £1million episode of hit drama Spooks in which an al-Qaeda terrorist is shot dead — in case it upsets Muslims.
Filming the assassination plot for the MI5 drama took four weeks.
But actor Shaun Dingwall who plays a renegade Christian gunman, fears he could become a target for fundamentalists if the scene is aired.
In the episode, due to be shown later this year, a religious nut played by Shaun, 35, guns down the fanatic on the steps of London’s High Court.
But production sources admitted it could be canned. One said: "In the climate of Muslim fury over cartoons, Shaun isn’t sure about it all."
"Al-Qaeda will be objecting to Gardener’s Question Time next. Where does it stop?"
A show spokesman said: "Spooks examines numerous threats facing the UK. Producers, along with Shaun, will track the storyline’s sensitivities in light of the ever-changing news agenda."
Shaun refused to comment last night.
But Sun security adviser Andy McNab urged the BBC to keep the scene. He said: "Self-censorship would be the thin end of the wedge."
Labour MP Stephen Pound added: "Giving terrorists a veto over what is shown on TV is the road to madness.
"Al-Qaeda will be objecting to Gardener’s Question Time next. Where does it stop?"
A show spokesman said: "Spooks examines numerous threats facing the UK. Producers, along with Shaun, will track the storyline’s sensitivities in light of the ever-changing news agenda."

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Blair wins terror vote

TONY Blair today narrowly won a crucial Commons vote on anti-terror laws after accusing the Opposition of trying to "dilute and weaken" them.
Despite a backbench rebellion, cutting the Government’s majority to 38, MPs voted by 315 votes to 277 to overturn a Lords defeat striking out Government proposals outlawing glorification of terrorism
The result - after three testing days for ministers with key votes on ID cards and smoking - will come as a huge relief for the Prime Minister.
Earlier, at a stormy question time, he warned that to take out references to "glorification" in the Terrorism Bill would send out a "massively counter-productive signal".
Mr Blair said: "People outside will infer that we have decided to dilute our law at the very moment when we should be strengthening it and sending a united signal that we aren't going to tolerate those who glorify terrorism in our country."
William Hague, standing in for Tory leader David Cameron, branded the move "ineffective authoritarianism" and accused Mr Blair of "posturing" on the issue when he could have cross-party agreement.
"Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines," he said, to Tory cheers.
When the issue was last debated in the Commons, during the committee stage of the Terrorism Bill, the Government's majority was cut to just one, as 31 Labour MPs rebelled.
Today the number of rebels was put at 17, including Clare Short, Kate Hoey, Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn.
At the start of a three-hour debate on the issue, Home Secretary Charles Clarke rammed home the Government's message that it would not compromise on the use of the word "glorification".
He said he wanted to send a clear message to all those recruiting terrorists, adding that all MPs had a duty to protect the people theyrepresent.
He told the Commons: "It is the glorification of terror which in the view of the Government is an essential method for those individuals and organisations who pursue terrorist ambitions and seek to get individuals, like the 7/7 bombers, to commit to their suicidal and destructive ends."
The Government drew up the glorification proposal as part of a package to clamp down on "preachers of hate".
Shadow attorney general Dominic Grieve accused ministers of simply closing their ears and eyes to the case put to them and warned: "The House is in danger of passing law that's unworkable.
"Glorification is not clear, precise or adequately defined. By plucking this concept out of the air, the Government is going to cause itself and the courts great difficulties.
"Glorification has no place and should have no place in our law. It isincapable of proper interpretation .... and risks criminalising those theGovernment does not intend to criminalise. It is, frankly, as a concept,rubbish."
And there were fears the law risked criminalising people engaged in legitimate debate on world affairs.
Leading Labour rebel Bob Marshall-Andrews (Medway) said the Bill was "unnecessary and at worst mischievous".
He said that, as a prosecuting criminal lawyer, he could not think of anexample in which glorification coupled with an encouragement to emulate would not be caught under current legislation
And Tory former Home Office Minister Ann Widdecombe was sceptical that the Terrorism Bill would be implemented in the spirit intended.
Liberal Democrat acting leader Sir Menzies Campbell said the new offence would do nothing to tackle the terrorist threat.
"The purpose of passing legislation is not to 'send a message', as the Prime Minister seems to argue. It is to change the law," he said.
"This new offence is an unwelcome and unnecessary distraction. The present laws are perfectly adequate to deal effectively with crimes of incitement.
"The law on glorification may well have unwelcome implications for freedom of speech, but it will do nothing to improve public safety."

Britain 'could be harbouring 20 more Abu Hamzas'

Britain could be harbouring 20 more foreign radical imams like Abu Hamza, the Government's anti-terrorism watchdog said yesterday.

Lord Carlile QC, who carried out an official review of counter-terrorism laws, said radicals such as Hamza had been able to operate because not enough had been done to check the credentials of people arriving from abroad.
Hamza was jailed for seven years last week for inciting murder and preaching hatred.
Lord Carlile, a Liberal Democrat peer, said he feared that other extremists were continuing to radicalise young Muslim men in universities, prisons and young offenders' institutions.
"I would be amazed if there were more than 20 such clerics in the country, but that is a pure guess,'' he said. "My worry is that they are in places such as colleges and custodial institutions where there are larger numbers than elsewhere of impressionable young men.
"A small number can have a disproportionate effect if they are in the wrong place.
"Very little has been done in the past to look in detail at the past history of imams who have gone into some cities."
Lord Carlile believed that public trust in the security and intelligence services had been harmed by the case they made out for war in Iraq and, in particular, the so-called ''dodgy dossier'' that claimed that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
"The trust issue has been very damaged by the intelligence information connected with the Iraq war which is perceived to be inaccurate," he said. "That has had a devastating effect on the level of trust given to MI5."
Tony Blair called on MPs last night to back him in today's key Commons vote on anti-terrorism legislation.
The Prime Minister believes that the nature of the threat justifies a new offence of ''glorifying'' terrorist acts, a law he proposed in his 12-point plan after the bomb attacks in London last July.
However, plans for a separate offence were dropped after protests from MPs and glorification became part of a general offence covering "indirect encouragement" of terrorism.
The measure was watered down further in the Lords but the Government will ask MPs today to beef it up again. Downing Street said that unless it was, efforts to prosecute demonstrators carrying placards calling for bombings would be undermined.

petrol bombs at the British embassy

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Scores of Iranian demonstrators hurled petrol bombs at the British embassy on Tuesday in renewed protests over the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad and Western opposition to Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
The protesters, mostly religious seminary students, chanted "Death to Tony Blair", "Death to Britain" and Death to America" while throwing hundreds of stones
at the embassy buildings, smashing many windows.
The Danish cartoons have been reproduced by only a handful of British media outlets, but much more widely in other European countries. Violent protests have also taken place outside the Tehran embassies of Denmark, Norway, Austria, France and Germany.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has accused Iran's and Syria's governments of stoking popular anger over the cartoons, but several Iranian officials have in recent days urged protesters not to attack or damage foreign embassies.
Among the crowd outside the British embassy were at least five donkeys draped with the flags of countries such as the United States and Denmark, and a dog wrapped in an Israeli flag. The crowd later burnt the flags.
"Insulting the Prophet disgusts us and nuclear energy gives us dignity," the crowd of about 200 people shouted. The West suspects Iran of trying to build nuclear weapons.
Cheers erupted when a petrol bomb was thrown over the high wall surrounding the embassy compound in central Tehran. Several other petrol bombs struck the wall and the embassy's main gate.
Scuffles broke out between the protesters and dozens of riot police trying to prevent the crowd from surging towards the embassy gates.
Stones and firecrackers were thrown at the nearby German embassy by a smaller crowd of protesters earlier on Tuesday.
"Europe, Europe this is the last warning. Mohammad is the Prophet of compassion, America is the cause of all misery," the crowd of about 50 chanted outside the German embassy.

Sunday, February 12, 2006

The fake rally

The BBC report on the "United against Incitement and Islamophobia" rally planned for Trafalgar Square
"The rally ... wasx organised by the Muslim Council of Britain, the Muslim Association of Britain and a number of Christian organisations."
Well, yes. Two minor inaccuracies and a curious omission. According to main organisers the Muslim Association of Britain and the Islamic Forum of Europe, the MCB are 'supporters', not organisers.
Secondly the 'number of Christian organisations' appears to be one - Pax Christi, a 'peace group' wholly focused on Palestine and the Middle East. (UPDATE - I'm sure their presence is nothing to do with the fact that a trustee of their educational arm, Norman Kember, is currently an enforced guest of the Swords of Truth Brigade in Iraq. Hat-tip to Rick in the comments).
The curious omission? The appearance of the Socialist Workers Party front the Stop the War Coalition, or the state-funded Operation Black Vote is not unexpected. But surely the fact that the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament considers the suppression of cartoons of Mohammmed a part of its campaigning work is newsworthy? I'd have asked them for an interview.
UPDATE - just a thought. Has the BBC website not realised yet that the cartoons were published in Egypt last October? I can't see the story anywhere.

thanks Laban

Up To 1000 Terrorists Recruited Through British Schools And Universities

Which works out as enough recruits for 250 July 7th style attacks or 52 9/11 style attacks :

ISLAMIC terror bosses have recruited up to a thousand students from Britain's college and university campuses, a leading expert has claimed.Professor Anthony Glees - who has advised security services on the threat - says academics and students have been placed in our education system by groups like al-Qaeda.And he claimed these recruiters and their brainwashed followers remain hell-bent on a strike on a major London landmark.The extent of the threat facing the British public emerged as the Government admitted anti-terror cops have foiled THREE attempts by Islamic maniacs to blitz Britain since the 7/7 attacks on London.Gordon Brown, who recently announced Britain's fund to fight terrorism will swell to £2billion by 2008, will reveal the potential outrages ahead of Wednesday's Commons vote on new anti-terror legislation.Downing Street hopes that by highlighting the threat facing ordinary people, backbench opposition to their controversial plans will disappear.Prof Glees of Brunel University told of a sinister "grooming" process which, he claims, has turned campuses into breeding grounds for religious hatred.He said the "sleepers" roam college bars and social clubs seeking out potential extremists who may be willing to lay down their lives for Islam.He said: "The extent to which terrorist organisations have infiltrated the university system is much greater than anyone realised."There is evidence of older students, student leaders and even academics targeting British-born Muslims and those from overseas. "Sometimes it takes years, but some are won over very quickly. The spark is there just waiting to be lit.
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Poll backs cartoon publishing



Most people in Britain believe newspapers were right to publish the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad which have sparked violent protests by Muslims across the globe.
As thousands gathered in London for a second weekend of demonstrations - which passed off peacefully - the YouGov poll for the Sunday Times found little sympathy.
And it also suggested the country was pessimistic about community relations with British Muslims - with 67% expecting tensions to worsen.
The decision to publish the cartoons - and the reprint of them elsewhere - was backed by more than two to one, 56% to 29%.
A huge majority - 88% - agreed that the violent protests have been a "gross overreaction" and 58% said they were angered by placards seen in London last week.
Some carried slogans threatening a repeat of the September 11 and July 7 bombings and 76% of those polled said the police should have arrested those carrying them.
Scotland Yard chiefs have insisted their immediate priority was public safety and that the evidence would be examined subsequently to see if charges could be brought.
However, the poll found that 80% of people thought police and politicians showed too much tolerance of such extremism, with 67% blaming political correctness by senior officers.
The survey also suggested that more than four in five people (81%) believe foreigners who stir up racial and religious hatred should be deported no matter what the consequences.
Only 17% believed there was a future of peaceful co-existence between Muslims and other Britons and 87% of people expected a repeat of the July 7 bombings.

British imam praises London Tube bombers

A LEADING imam in the mosque where the July 7 bombers worshipped has hailed their terrorist attack on London as a "good" act in a secretly taped conversation with an undercover reporter.
Hamid Ali, spiritual leader of the mosque in West Yorkshire, said it had forced people to take notice when peaceful meetings and conferences had no impact.
He also praised the bombers as the "children" of Abdullah al-Faisal, a firebrand Muslim cleric, who was convicted of inciting murder and racial hatred in 2003.
Ali revealed that the leader of the London suicide bombers had attended sermons in Yorkshire by al-Faisal and tapes of al-Faisal’s teachings were still circulating within his mosque.
Al-Faisal, who has branded non-Muslims as "cockroaches" ripe for extermination, is serving a seven-year prison sentence but is eligible for early release next week.

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Reborn extremist sect had key role in London protest

· Group shares leaders with 'disbanded' al-Muhajiroun· Members owe allegiance to man excluded from UK

When worldwide Muslim fury over cartoons of the Prophet spread to Britain, the flag-burning protests outside the Danish embassy in London appeared to be an entirely spontaneous outpouring of anger.
Inquiries by the Guardian have shown, however, that a key role in organising the demonstration was played by an Islamist sect whose supporters have repeatedly been linked to violence and terrorism.
Al-Ghurabaa, the organisation which takes credit for the protest, is essentially the same organisation as al-Muhajiroun, a sect which claims to have disbanded more than a year ago and whose founder, Omar Bakri Mohammed, was excluded from the UK last summer, shortly after he fled to Beirut.

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Saturday, February 11, 2006

Britons have assets frozen in terror link

Five British men have had their assets frozen amid accusations they used a charity to help fund a terrorist organisation linked to al-Qa'eda.
The men had their assets frozen after an order by the United Nations Security Council. It is alleged they used the Sanabel Relief Agency Limited and three companies to fund the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.
They were named as Tahir Nasuf, 44, from Manchester, Abd Al-Rahman Al Faqih, 46, Ghuma Abd'rabbah, 48, and Abdulbaqi Mohammed Khaled, 48, all from Birmingham, and Midlands-based Mohammed Benhammedi, 39.
The freeze came after a request from the American treasury, who claim that Sanabel's "first priority is providing support to the LIFG's jihadist activities", despite presenting itself as a reputable charity.

The 2 faces of islam,


see for yourself

Exposed: The mad hatter


THE father who made his baby wear an "I love al-Qaeda" hat at a demo is an extremist friend of hate preacher Abu Hamza, The Sun can reveal.
Abu Jihad, 38, boasted his 20-month-old daughter Farisa was "the youngest member" of Osama Bin Laden’s terror group.
He ranted that Westerners should be killed and anyone who insulted Islam was a "legitimate target".
Jihad — whose surname means holy war — hates everything non-Muslim.
He and hook-handed Hamza, 47, worshipped together at the notorious Finsbury Park Mosque.
Jihad was photographed as he protested outside the Old Bailey against Hamza’s seven- year jail sentence for terror offences on Tuesday.
Four days earlier he and his wife caused outrage when they brought innocent Farisa in the sick hat to a protest outside the Danish Embassy in London.
Fanatics had reacted with fury to mocking cartoons of prophet Mohammed printed in Denmark. Extremists waved banners reading "Massacre those who insult Islam" and "Europe, your 9/11 will come".
During the hate-filled demo, Jihad had showed off his daughter and said: "Would you like to meet the youngest member of al-Qaeda?"
He ranted: "The cartoonists and publishers need to be handed over to al-Qaeda or the Taliban. France, Norway, Denmark, whoever publishes these pictures — kill them."
As well as being a pal of Hamza, Jihad is a member of radical Islamic group the Saviour Sect, an offshoot of ranting cleric Omar Bakri’s al-Muhajiroun group.
Bakri had praised the London bombers — then fled Britain for fear of being charged with terror offences.Jihad is married to a white British-born woman who converted to Islam.
They live in North London close to the Finsbury Park Mosque, which was described as Bin Laden’s British HQ.
Jihad was a regular worshipper there when Hamza was its imam and it was a notorious recruiting centre for terrorists.
But he has since told friends the mosque is now too moderate.
He now prays with fellow extremists at private homes and local community centres.
HAMZA sold a flat for £228,000 while he was in jail, it was claimed yesterday.
The sale in September 2004 happened when Hamza was behind bars after his arrest on a US extradition warrant.
He claims the flat in Hammersmith, West London, belonged to his son Mustafa Kamel.
The sale was revealed at a hearing at the Old Bailey to investigate Hamza’s assets to see whether he can contribute to the legal aid which is paying the costs of his defence.

Friday, February 10, 2006

its in the koran

Pupil refused to wear uniform of 'non-believers'

A Muslim schoolgirl refused to wear school uniform because she was not prepared to dress in the same clothes as "non-believers", Britain's highest civil court was told yesterday.
Five law lords were hearing an appeal by Denbigh High School, Luton, against an earlier ruling that Shabina Begum, 17, had been denied the right to manifest her religion under Article 9 of the Human Rights Convention.
She was sent home in September 2002 when she insisted on wearing a jilbab, a full-length Islamic gown that hides the shape of a woman's arms and legs. At that time, nearly 80 per cent of the school's pupils were Muslim.

Thursday, February 09, 2006

Muslim fury at sex toy


FURIOUS Muslims have blasted adult shop Ann Summers for selling a blow-up male doll called MUSTAFA SHAG.
They complained that the novelty sex toy insults the Prophet Muhammad — who also has the title al-Mustafa.
The High Street chain’s jokey £15 mustachioed doll has a 7in manhood and is targeted at hen parties.
But the Muslim Association — based at Manchester’s Central Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre — branded him "obnoxious".
Yesterday a spokesman said: "This is the name of our Prophet and it’s very upsetting. This thing should be banned."
In a letter to the store, the Association said: "You have no idea how much hurt, anguish and disgust this obnoxious phrase has caused to Muslims. We are asking you to have our Most Revered Prophet’s name ‘Mustafa’ and the afflicted word ‘shag’ removed."
Last night Ann Summers said: "If anyone has a better name, please let us know. We’ll happily change it."

Preachers who hate UK

MORE than 100 Abu Hamza-style terror suspects are at large in Britain — despite Tony Blair’s vow to boot them out.
Spooks have compiled a danger list of UK Islamic extremists, it emerged yesterday.
Some are tagged, or in jail waiting to be deported. But scores more roam free, bent on destroying the country in which they live.
The Sun today identifies five preachers of hate, considered a threat.

HASSAN BUTT: Manchester-born Butt, 25, has boasted he would be proud to be a suicide bomber.
The extremist — who helped recruit British Muslims to fight for the Taliban in Afghanistan — has said: "I feel absolutely nothing for this country. I have no problem with British people. But if someone attacks them I’ve no problem with that, either."
ABU IZZADEEN: The spokesman for extremist group The Strangers called the 7/7 bombings "praiseworthy" and a "wake-up" call. The married dad-of-three of Leyton, East London, said: "I’d never denounce the bombings, even if my own family was to suffer."
ABU ABDULLAH: The Turkish Cypriot is Abu Hamza’s sidekick. He seized control of Finsbury Park mosque in 2004 but was later evicted by the trustees.
He branded Ken Bigley — the Liverpool hostage beheaded in Iraq — as "greedy" for working there to "earn big bucks". He said: "Allah says, ‘Smite them at their necks’."
ANJEM CHOUDARY: Choudary, 38, was behind last Friday’s London cartoon demo at which a student dressed as a suicide bomber.
The trained lawyer was a leading figure in evil Omar Bakri’s al-Muhajiroun group.
He said: "I believe another 7/7 is a very real possibility. The concept of self-sacrifice operations is as old as the divine texts."

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Galloway in new outrage

GEORGE Galloway, the shamed Celebrity Big Brother contestant and MP, has shocked the country again - by saying he wants to twin his east London constituency with a hotbed of Arab militant activity.
Guesting on an LBC radio phone-in programme, 'Gorgeous' George said that twinning Tower Hamlets with Jenin - a Palestinian city that contains a huge refugee camp - would be good for his constituents on 'judgement day'.
Jenin was the centre of the Arab uprising before World War Two. The city saw the birth of the organisation that eventually spawned Hamas - the terror group that recently took power in Palestine.
Galloway said one of the things he would do if he won control of the council in the local elections in May was "twinning Tower Hamlets with Jenin".
When asked how this would help his constituents, he said: "It will help their soul, it will help them on judgement day, that they did something noble."
Whether or not Galloway's Respect party has a chance in the local elections has become a big debating point since he appeared on Big Brother.
He embarrassed himself in the house in front of millions of TV viewers by - among other things - pretending to be a cat lapping milk from actress Rula Lenska's hand and dancing in a skin-tight leotard.

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Hook and a hooker

By SIMON HUGHES
HOOK-handed cleric Abu Hamza cheated on his first wife with a HOOKER, The Sun can reveal.
And it was the fall-out from his fling that transformed terrorist "recruiting sergeant" Hamza — jailed for seven years yesterday — into a religious fanatic.
Jurors at his Old Bailey trial heard the menacing Muslim preacher declare: "Every brothel is a target, everybody who endorses them is a target."
At the time of his affair Hamza, now 47, was in his 20s, wed to Briton Valerie Fleming and working as a bouncer at a sleazy club.
His guilty secret was revealed by a Sun investigation. And Valerie, 51, said: "I can confirm that one of the reasons our marriage broke up was my husband’s infidelity with a prostitute."

A FORMER pal told how Abu Hamza had a fling with a hooker behind his first wife’s back — and said: "He certainly had an eye for the women."
Hamza, now 47 and with hooks for hands and only one eye, was working part-time as a nightclub bouncer in London’s West End.
The pal said: "He hardly drank and didn’t smoke, but he certainly had an eye for the women — even though he was married.
"While I knew him he had a fling with one of the prostitutes who came into the club.
"He told me his wife eventually found out and he had to confess what he’d been up to.
"Apparently he promised it would never happen again because it was against his religion — and soon afterwards he stopped working on the doors.
"I heard he had begun going to the Finsbury Park Mosque to pray and sort himself out."

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Tuesday, February 07, 2006

what the police found at Finsbury Park mosque

Police risked offending delicate religious sensitivities by raiding the Finsbury Park mosque, but their actions were justified by the mini-arsenal of weapons, terrorist paraphernalia and forged passports they found inside.
Operation Mermant, which began in the early hours of January 20, 2003, involved scores of officers in body armour using battering rams to enter the building.
Full details of what they discovered during three days of searches can only be revealed today, following the conclusion of Abu Hamza’s trial on race hate charges. The cleric was found guilty on 11 of 15 charges, including six counts of soliciting to murder and inciting racial hatred.
The cache of equipment included chemical warfare protection suits, or NBC (nuclear, biological and chemical) suits, as they are technically known. They were found together with three blank-firing pistols, a stun gun and CS spray. Officers also found a gas mask, handcuffs, hunting knives and a walkie talkie.
Detectives believe the equipment was being used in terror training camps located somewhere within the UK. It is not clear where these were, but speculation in the past has centred around remote parts of Wales, in particular the Brecon Beacons, and national parks such as those in the Highlands, Yorkshire Dales or Lake District.
"Our assessment was that this was material that had been used in training camps, probably here in the UK," a senior police source said.
Some of the material was found close to Hamza’s office, although police sources admit they could not directly connect them to the preacher.
Police also found more than 100 stolen or forged passports and identity documents, laminating equipment, credit cards and chequebooks hidden under rugs and concealed in ceiling spaces. One officer recalled pulling down part of a ceiling to find passports raining down on him.
The raid followed the discovery of what was then thought to be ricin at a flat in the nearby North London neighbourhood of Wood Green during a swoop earlier that month, on January 5. The material found there went on to form the core of the trial of the al-Qaeda suspect Kamel Bourgass and the others accused of involvement in an alleged plot to manufacture the deadly poison.
A senior police source said that officers were led to Finsbury Park by a "clear evidential lead" discovered during the Wood Green raid, which left police with "no option" but to search the mosque. This is believed to be an envelope, which had the address of the mosque on the front, in which police found recipes for chemicals including ricin and cyanide.
It was a clear sign that the mosque, under Hamza’s stewardship, was more than just a talking shop.
A week after the Wood Green raid, the owner of the recipes, Bourgass, or Nadir Habra as he was also known, was arrested at a flat in Manchester. He stabbed to death Detective Constable Stephen Oake and seriously injured three other police officers as he tried to escape.
Bourgass, like other illegal immigrants who needed a place to stay at that time, had been dossing down at the mosque in the weeks before his attempts to make ricin were discovered. He had used the mosque as his postal address. It was the same envelope in which the Immigration Service sent details of his refusal for asylum that he later used to store the poison recipes. A photocopier in the mosque was used to copy his original hand-written recipes.
A week after the arrest of Bourgass, and after much agonising at the highest levels of Scotland Yard and the Home Office, detectives decided they had to take the controversial step of raiding Finsbury Park mosque.
Operation Mermant was launched in the early hours. Illuminated by a beam from a helicopter, dozens of officers in body armour used an "enforcer" battering ram to get in before donning overshoes as a sign of respect.
Police had been unable to release full details of the material found during the raid before today because of the risk of prejudice to Hamza’s trial. But officers said it was important to do so now to "show why it was we felt it necessary to take the extreme step of searching a mosque".
"We recognised how sensitive it would be and took every precaution to make sure as far as we could that we did not act in an insensitive manner," a police source said. "We worked with the original trustees, who had been ousted by Abu Hamza and his followers."
Muslim officers also accompanied police on the raid to advise on appropriate behaviour. They were appalled at the state of the mosque. "They were shocked at the condition of the mosque, the lack of cleanliness and care," the police source said.
Hamza condemned the raid, accusing the police and Government of adopting "Rambo-style" tactics, describing it as "provocative", "silly" and "illogical". Other Muslim leaders also criticised the manner of the operation.
It has been alleged that Hamza rose to prominence at the mosque by bullying and intimidating the trustees, driving away moderate Muslims. He provoked outrage with his speeches supporting the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and the September 11 attacks. He once described the American shuttle disaster as a "punishment from Allah".
Following an investigation by the Charity Commission, the cleric was suspended from his post in April 2002, but was not formally dismissed until February the following year. The commission concluded that Hamza had used Finsbury Park mosque for "personal and political, rather than charitable, purposes".
The mosque, which is officially known as the North London Central Mosque, was closed and boarded up for several months following the police raid. After a period of refurbishment, it reopened in February last year with a new board of trustees, heralding a fresh start. They claimed to have removed the "minority of radical elements" who had taken unwanted control of the mosque and "tainted its reputation in the eyes of the public at large".
"The previous incumbents had preached an ideal of Islam that is not condoned or supported by the mosque’s current trustees, or the Muslim community who currently use the mosque," a spokesman for the mosque said last year.
Police say they have now built a "strong working partnership" with all involved at the mosque and that officers are now regular, welcome visitors.
A senior police source said it had been "helpful" to the community in the Finsbury Park area to have Hamza removed from his role there, so that people could go back to worshipping at the mosque in "an atmosphere of calm and tranquillity - as opposed to what was happening before, when he and his followers were creating a degree of conflict".

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Abu Hamza and the 7/7 bombers

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xABU HAMZA AL-MASRI, who was jailed for seven years yesterday for inciting murder and racial hatred, preached his message of violence to three of the July 7 London suicide bombers.
The Times has learnt that Mohammad Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer and Jermaine Lindsay, who detonated rucksack bombs on London Tube trains, visited Finsbury Park mosque where Abu Hamza taught that Muslims were obliged to kill unbelievers to defend Islam.
Khan and Tanweer heard the cleric’s sermons inside the North London mosque. They and Lindsay were also among crowds that heard Abu Hamza preach on the street after the building was closed in a police raid in 2003.
The link between Abu Hamza, 47, and the bombers, who killed 52 people and themselves, raises a possible new explanation for the timing of the attacks.
On the morning of July 7 Abu Hamza was in the dock at the Old Bailey about to stand trial. But his case was postponed for six months. It resumed last month, concluding when a jury of seven men and five women returned unanimous guilty verdicts on eleven of fifteen charges.
Abu Hamza, who refused to recognise the court because it did not administer Islamic law, remained seated as the verdicts were delivered.
Sentencing him, Mr Justice Hughes said: "You used your authority to legitimise anger and to encourage your audiences to believe that it gave rise to a duty to murder.
"You commended suicide bombing, you encouraged them to kill in the cause you set out for them." He added that the radical imam had "created a real danger to the lives of innocent people in different parts of the world".
The judge said that in handing down a seven-year sentence he was aware that upon release Abu Hamza was likely to be rearrested and extradited to the United States where he faces serious terrorist charges, including conspiracy to take hostages.
Abu Hamza was led away to begin his sentence at Belmarsh high-security jail in southeast London.
Mudassar Arani, Abu Hamza’s solicitor, said that her client was "a prisoner of faith" who believed that he had been subjected to "a slow martyrdom".
The charges against Abu Hamza, a father of seven, were based on hours of videotapes of his sermons. He urged training for holy war, told congregations that the Holocaust and Hitler were sent from God to punish the Jews and repeatedly urged the killing of kuffars (non-believers). "There is no drop of liquid that is loved by Allah more than the liquid of blood," he preached.
Abu Hamza, whose appearance made him a hero to his followers — he lost his hands and an eye to a landmine in Afghanistan — also taught that suicide bombing was legitimate and that "martyrs" would be rewarded in paradise.
Among the hundreds of potential terrorists who passed through Finsbury Park was Khan, 30, the ringleader of the 7/7 bombers, who first went to the mosque in in 2002. He returned several times with Tanweer and the pair slept the night in the building.
Lindsay, 19, first heard the cleric speak during his street sermons which became a rallying point for young Muslim radicals from around the country.
Detectives are still examining surveillance footage to establish if Hasib Hussain, the fourth 7/7 bomber, was ever in the crowds at Finsbury Park.
Abu Hamza’s lawyers made a last-ditch attempt to have the trial stopped yesterday because of the row over newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Within minutes of the judge rejecting that application the jury returned unanimous guilty verdicts on six charges of soliciting murder and three of inciting race hate.
The jury also convicted the preacher of possessing offensive tapes with the intention of distributing them. More than 3,000 recordings were found in his home in West London. He was also found guilty of a charge under the Terrorism Act of possessing an item of use to terrorists, the Encyclopaedia of Afghani Jihad.
But he was acquitted on three charges of soliciting murder and one of stirring up racial hatred.

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