Posted on 11/12/2009 8:25:38 AM PST by george76
A radical Muslim cleric alleged to have inspired the Fort Hood gunman has been praised in the past as “a preacher of peace” by a prominent SNP candidate with close links to Alex Salmond.
The FBI is investigating communications between Major Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at the US Army base in Texas, and Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born Muslim cleric now based in Yemen. Mr Awlaki has a large following in Britain and counts prominent mainstream Muslims among his supporters.
In 2006 Osama Saeed, who has been selected as the SNP candidate for Glasgow Central for the next general election, wrote that Mr Awlaki “preached nothing but peace”.
Awlaki, 38, who on his blog described Major Hasan as “a hero”, has been a regular visitor to Britain and delivers frequent lectures to audiences here by video or via the internet.
Counter-terrorism sources said last night that Mr Awlaki was barred from entering Britain on security grounds, while the anti-extremist Quilliam Foundation said that he was “perhaps the most influential pro-jihadist ideologue preaching in English today”.
Despite his extremist reputation, the cleric has attracted widespread support from mainstream British Muslim groups and individuals.
Azad Ali, president of the Civil Service Islamic Society, wrote last November that Mr Awlaki was “one of my favourite speakers and scholars”.
Awlaki was born in New Mexico in 1971 and holds a US passport.
He was an imam at Rabat mosque in San Diego, where he encountered two of the September 11 hijackers, Nawaf al Hazmi and Khalid al Mihdhar.
The 9/11 Commission report said that Mr Awlaki “developed a close relationship” with the two hijackers ...
The preacher moved from there to be an imam at Falls Church, Virginia, where he is reported to have first met Major Hasan.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
He’s a regular Rev. Wright.
To think that some retards think the Scottish Nationalist Party is actually nationalist. They are just grievance -whoring socialists.
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