Oh Really?
Posted on 02/06/2006 7:17:06 PM PST by Cornpone
A Muslim protester who sparked outrage by dressing as a suicide bomber is a convicted drug dealer who was recently released from prison, it was disclosed last night.
Omar Khayam, 22, was reportedly jailed for five and a half years in 2002 for dealing in Class A drugs, thought to include cocaine.
Omar Khayam in the outfit that caused offense Khayam, who wore the bomber's outfit during the demonstration in London on Saturday over the cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed, served around half of his sentence before being released on licence last year.
The building student is serving the remainder of the term under the supervision of the Probation Service, but could now be recalled to prison for breaching the terms of his parole.
The Islamic faith strictly forbids the taking or selling of drugs - the latter offence is punishable by death in some Muslim countries.
Khayam, from Bedfordshire, apologised yesterday to the families of the victims of the July 7 London bombings for his "suicide bomber" protest.
However, he insisted it remained valid because of the hurt caused to Muslims around the world by the publication of the cartoons.
Scotland Yard officers travelled to Bedfordshire last night and had been expected to interview Khayam.
However they returned to the capital without having spoken to him.
5 February 2006: Unchallenged, a man poses as a suicide bomber. Police stop press taking pictures
That would only raise his standing in some circles around here.
The real Omar Khayyam was a great mathematician. And a Persian, not an Arab.
So, doing the math, this story must have been written in late 2007 or early 2008.
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A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness-
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
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Some for the Glories of This World; and some
Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come;
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go,
Nor heed the rumble of the distant Drum!
Not really very good poetry, but it's too bad this drug dealer isn't a bit more like his namesake.
Did you use a current exchange rate table?
Obviously time off in England is even more lenient then here.
Oh Really?
Of course, there is only one way to guarantee redemption for yourself for past "sins" in the eyes of allah and make sure you'll "smell paradise."
And violent criminals make much better footsoldiers for the jihad.
Omar Khayam?Dump him in the Rubicon..
"Omar the Tentmaker"?
Perhaps because you're reading an English translation - and necessarily the best one.
NOT!
"And NOT necessarily the best one!"
How do ya'll like my anti-suicide bomber outfit?
It's the classic one, though.
What the little green book says and what happens in real life are two different things. Most of the yemeni muslims I know chew qat regularly.
And getting the infidels (us) to become addicted is a goal of the islamic movement...just like it was a goal of the soviets back in the cold war.
The Turks have been sending heroin/opium to the west for hundreds of years.
The next LP candidate for President?
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