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A British Muslim group is planning a commemoration of 9/11 - and now its spiritual leader says he supports abducting British children. The extremist leader of Al-Muhajiroun, Omar Bakri Mohammed, said this week that holding women and children as hostages would be reasonable for a Muslim who has suffered under British rule. Mohammed told The Sunday Telegraph, "If an Iraqi Muslim carried out an attack like that in Britain, it would be justified because Britain has carried out acts of terrorism in Iraq... As long as the Iraqi did not deliberately kill women and children, and they were killed in...

The extremist Islamic movement Al-Muhajiroun has announced a planned tribute to the 9/11 attacks and the 19 hijackers who carried them out during its London convention later this month, reports the British Arab daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. The tribute - titled, "The Choice is in Your Hands: Either You're with the Muslims or with the Infidels" - is billed as a celebration of the third anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, according to the Middle Eastern Media Research Institute, which translates Arab news reports. The group had planned a similar anniversary event a year ago, called "The...

UK radical Muslims to mark 9/11 anniversary By Peter Graff LONDON (Reuters) - A British radical Muslim group that once described the September 11, 2001 hijackers as "The Magnificent 19" will hold a conference to mark the anniversary of the attacks this weekend, its leader says. The al Muhajiroun group led by Sheikh Omar Bakri says its long-term goal is to establish Islamic rule in Britain, but denies that it promotes violence at home. The group was widely denounced last year by mainstream Muslim organisations for advertising four conferences that seemed to praise the September 11 hijackers who killed nearly...

An extremist terror supporter has backed hostage taking in British schools.Talking about the bloody siege in Beslan, religious fanatic Omar Bakri said: 'If an Iraqi Muslim carried out an attack like that in Britain it would be justified.'Britain had carried out 'acts of terrorism' in Iraq, he said.And he would not even see the deaths of innocent British women and children as wrong.'If they were killed in the crossfire that would be OK,' he said.An illegal immigrant expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1985, Syrian born Bakri lives on more than 300 pounds a week state benefits in Edmonton, North London.Bakri...

Cleric supports targeting children By Rajeev Syal An extremist Islamic cleric based in Britain said yesterday that he would support hostage-taking at British schools if carried out by terrorists with a just cause. Omar Bakri Mohammed, the spiritual leader of the extremist sect al-Muhajiroun, said that holding women and children hostage would be a reasonable course of action for a Muslim who has suffered under British rule. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Mohammed said: "If an Iraqi Muslim carried out an attack like that in Britain, it would be justified because Britain has carried out acts of...

Omar Bakri Mohammed, the spiritual leader of the extremist sect al-Muhajiroun, said that holding women and children hostage would be a reasonable course of action for a Muslim who has suffered under British rule... He gave an interview yesterday to promote a "celebratory" conference in London next Saturday to commemorate the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Cleric supports targeting children By Rajeev Syal (Filed: 05/09/2004) An extremist Islamic cleric based in Britain said yesterday that he would support hostage-taking at British schools if carried out by terrorists with a just cause. Omar Bakri Mohammed, the spiritual leader of the extremist sect al-Muhajiroun, said that holding women and children hostage would be a reasonable course of action for a Muslim who has suffered under British rule. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Mohammed said: "If an Iraqi Muslim carried out an attack like that in Britain, it would be justified because Britain has carried out...

Cleric supports targeting children An extremist Islamic cleric based in Britain said yesterday that he would support hostage-taking at British schools if carried out by terrorists with a just cause. Omar Bakri Mohammed, the spiritual leader of the extremist sect al-Muhajiroun, said that holding women and children hostage would be a reasonable course of action for a Muslim who has suffered under British rule. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Mohammed said: "If an Iraqi Muslim carried out an attack like that in Britain, it would be justified because Britain has carried out acts of terrorism in Iraq....

An extremist Islamic cleric based in Britain said yesterday that he would support hostage-taking at British schools if carried out by terrorists with a just cause. Omar Bakri Mohammed, the spiritual leader of the extremist sect al-Muhajiroun, said that holding women and children hostage would be a reasonable course of action for a Muslim who has suffered under British rule. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Mohammed said: "If an Iraqi Muslim carried out an attack like that in Britain, it would be justified because Britain has carried out acts of terrorism in Iraq.

An extremist Islamic cleric based in Britain said yesterday that he would support hostage-taking at British schools if carried out by terrorists with a just cause. Omar Bakri Mohammed, the spiritual leader of the extremist sect al-Muhajiroun, said that holding women and children hostage would be a reasonable course of action for a Muslim who has suffered under British rule. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Mr Mohammed said: "If an Iraqi Muslim carried out an attack like that in Britain, it would be justified because Britain has carried out acts of terrorism in Iraq. "As long as the...

London Convention Will Celebrate 9/11 The London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that the extremist Islamic movement Al-Muhajiroun had announced a convention in London, titled "The Choice is in Your Hands: Either You're with the Muslims or with the Infidels," to mark the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks. The organization had planned a similar anniversary event a year ago, called "The Magnificent 19 [Suicide Attackers]," but had cancelled it at the last minute. The following is a summary of the report:(1) Al-Muhajiroun leader Omar Bakri, a Syrian residing in London, told the paper by phone that the convention would...

San Jose Website Incites Murder of British PeopleBritish Muslim leaders angry: Terror leaflets found at mosqueBy Jeanette Oldham, Sunday Mercury, Aug 15 2004 _______ Hundreds of leaflets urging Muslims to become terrorist fighters have been distributed at a Midland mosque.Police have been called in to investigate after the flyers were found at Birmingham Central Mosque last week.The leaflets urge worshippers to become Mujahideen fighters and ask them to 'pray for death and decay to be visited upon the West'.The literature bears the name of a group called Ahle Sunnah Wal Jamah, which mosque officials say is often used as an...

A major international petition calling on Islamic leaders to allow Muslims to convert to another faith was presented to the United Nations. The petition, signed by 88,890 people from 32 countries, says "Muslims who choose to convert to another faith" should be "free to do so without having to face a lifetime of fear as a result." Under Sharia, or Islamic law, Muslims who convert to another faith and refuse to repent must be put to death. The British charity Barnabas Fund presented the petition to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour July 28. The group said it...

RALLY FOR ISLAM (IX) IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE - SUNDAY JULY 25TH – 1PM – 6PM – ALL WELCOME… Hundreds of Muslims from across the UK are set to converge in London’s Trafalgar Square on the 25th of July for the Annual Rally for Islam. This year will be the 9th anniversary of the rally and promises to be the best yet. The British public will once again witness many non-Muslims: previously Jews, Christians, Hindus & Sikhs (idol worshippers), Atheists, Socialists etc giving up their false beliefs and ideologies in order to embrace the divine way of life which Islam offers...

Fake "rape" photos that originated on porn sites and were distributed throughout the world as evidence of coalition atrocities undergirded a recent call to jihad by a London-based militant group that supported the beheading of American hostage Nick Berg. In an "urgent" statement released on May 4, the same day WND debunked the photos, the British-based radical Islamist group Al-Muhajiron rang the alarm over the depictions of gang-rape. WorldNetDaily reported the photos, which appeared on Arabic websites, were actually taken from American and Hungarian pornography sites. "The more vivid and explicit photos however weren't even shown," Al-Muhajiron announced. "Muslim women...

Four young British Muslims in their twenties - a social worker, an IT specialist, a security guard and a financial adviser - occupy a table at a fast-food chicken restaurant in Luton. Perched on their plastic chairs, wolfing down their dinner, they seem just ordinary young men. Yet out of their mouths pour heated words of revolution. "As far as I'm concerned, when they bomb London, the bigger the better," says Abdul Haq, the social worker. "I know it's going to happen because Sheikh bin Laden said so. Like Bali, like Turkey, like Madrid - I pray for it, I...

LISBON (Reuters) - Several Islamic militant groups are preparing attacks on London, making such a strike unavoidable, a radical Muslim cleric said in an interview published Sunday. "It's inevitable. Because several (attacks) are being prepared by several groups," Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad told Lisbon's Publica magazine from London where he is based. One "very well organized" group in London calling itself al Qaeda Europe "has a great appeal for young Muslims," he said. "I know that they are ready to launch a big operation." The firebrand cleric, who has outraged moderate Muslims and non-Muslims alike with his uncompromising views, gave...

Various groups sympathetic to al-Qaeda are preparing large-scale attacks against London, the leader of an Islamic group suspected of having ties to the extremist network said in remarks published in Portugal. Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammed, the head of the London-based group al-Muhajiroun, added in an interview with the Portuguese daily Publico on Sunday that last month's deadly Madrid train bombings were carried out by a group of independent actors who back Osama bin Laden's organisation. "There are many youths who dream of joining al-Qaeda, but worse than that, there are many 'freelancers' who are willing to launch operations similar to...

Just visit this website. It's sick. That must be the most blatant apologist of terrorism... Here's the latest new about this wacko: Shaikh Umar Bakri Muhammad, the head of the London-based group al-Muhajirun, added on Sunday in an interview with the Portuguese daily Publico that last month's deadly Madrid train bombings were carried out by a group of independent actors who back Usama bin Ladin's organisation. "There are many youths who dream of joining al-Qaida, but worse than that, there are many 'freelancers' who are willing to launch operations similar to those by al-Qaida," he said. "The attack in Madrid...

BOMB-PLOT SON BRAINWASHED SAY FAMILY April 1, 2004 By Justine Smith, Alex Williams THE family of one of the eight men suspected of plotting a bomb outrage in Britain claimed last night their son had earlier been brainwashed by religious extremists. Omar Khyam was allegedly recruited by Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed's Al-Muhajiroun Islamic sect and taken to Pakistan four years ago. His uncle Sajjah Ahmad told how relatives wrestled him from the grip of the alleged fanatics after he fell under their spell while visiting a mosque in Crawley, West Sussex. Mr Ahmad claimed: "Omar was a normal kid until...